Lucas & Coppola discuss Kurosawa and Kagemusha
A 19-minute interview piece in which directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola discuss Kurosawa and Kagemusha. This interview appears on The Criterion Collection’s Kagemusha release.Read More
Filmmaking 360
Looking for Truffaut (2009)
This documentary probes into the director Francois Truffaut, who lived a life as remarkable as his films. Originally spurned by the French film establishment for his outspoken views, he went on to win best director at the Cannes Film Festival with his debut The 400 Blows, change the face of cinema in France and across Read MoreRead More
Rewind YouTube Style 2012
YouTube invited the creators of the most popular channels to star in a mash-up of culturally defining moments of 2012. Directed by Peter Furia A behind the scenes look at the production:Read More
360 Degree Light Portraits
Using a bullet time rig of 24 cameras Patrick Rochon, the Timecode Lab and Eric Paré created these unique 360 degree photo and light paintings. See more of these on their project galleryRead More
How Peter Jackson Shrank the Hobbits
There are a lot of traditional techniques for shrinking actors whether it’s done in post via a greenscreen or on set with forced perspective. But these techniques don’t hold up as well when working with camera movement in a 3D shoot. That’s when creative engineering comes along – using two linked motion controlled setups (shooting different Read MoreRead More
Einstein’s Gift for Fantasy
Sometimes being about to imagine the impossible means just looking at things in a different way. Think of how Albert Einstein changed our understanding of time and space by fantasizing about people going to the center of time in order to freeze their lovers or their children in century-long embraces. This space he imagined is Read MoreRead More
The Final Hobbit Vlog – Hobbit’s Premiere
The Hobbit’s 10th and final Video Blog reunites the cast for the premiere of the film in New Zealand. If you want to go back and check out the earlier episodes, here they are: Part 1-2 Part 3-4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9Read More
Learning to See – Rethinking How You Perceive
Dale Wilson offers an interesting tip on how to work up your photographic (and cinematic) eye by observing the world around you in different way. Photography is about vision – real or perceived. Before we take the camera out of the bag we must first learn to look at what we are seeing, and to Read MoreRead More
The Science of Productivity
How do you complete that script you’re working on? How do you finish the film that’s been sitting on your hard drive. Use Science to find the secret to being more productive The first thing we need to acknowledge in the pursuit of a more productive lifestyle is the mountain of evidence that suggests willpower alone Read MoreRead More
Eddie Redmayne by Tom Craig
Eddie Redmayne by Tom Craig for Esquire UK January 2013Read More
Saul Bass – Main Title Documentary
Ironic that the titles and production value of this documentary are actually terrible, considering that Saul Bass is the most famous title sequence designer. Nonetheless it is a mesmerizing look at some of the best movie title sequences of all time, narrated by Bass himself.Read More