Playboy Contributing Editor David Hochman interviews J.J. Abrams just after his Star Wars announcement about all things Science Fiction. And yes friends, you are going reading Playboy for the articles. PLAYBOY: Let’s begin with Star TrPLAYBOY: Let’s begin with Star Trek. How the hell can this franchise still go where no man has gone before? ABRAMS: Well, Read MoreRead More
Alison Nastasi explores the thoughts and feels of 12 Actors and Directors and their thoughts of working with intimate scenes. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams Derek Cianfrance’s film about a crumbling relationship contained one of the most realistic sex scenes ever put to film. The MPAA tried to brand the intimate moment between Michelle Williams and Ryan Read MoreRead More
Badass Review interviews the down to earth Joe Carnahan (The Grey, The A-Team, Smoking Aces) covering the trenches of Hollywood filmmaking.Read More
Mike Wilkinson implements sliders, timelapse and steadicams in this short discussion on how to spice up what could otherwise be boring corporate video.Read More
Director Ingmar Bergman appears on The Dick Cavett Show in an interview that originally aired August 2, 1971.Read More
Here are a few tips for the photographer coming from the other side of the lens. Dear (new-ish) Photographer, My name is Model. I would love it if when you shoot me you take these things into consideration to achieve the greatest effect for us both. – Male or female, give some playful banter. It Read MoreRead More
What are some of the famous Director switch offs in history? Indiewire takes a tour of 15 instances where they changed horses midstream. Getting fired, quitting a job hastily, “mutually agreeing” to exit…no matter how it’s phrased, being removed from any project is never fun as almost anyone who has ever worked a day Read MoreRead More
Sometimes you can dramatically alter your photo composition just changing your perspective. This quick guide to using camera angles more effectively will help you take pictures you can be proud of. Below we’ll show you 5 simple techniques you can use to alter your camera angles for dramatic effect. You’ve probably seen plenty of shots Read MoreRead More
Orson Welles was a dear friend of Merv Griffin but was a notoriously guarded interviewee. He told Merv he wasn’t interested in taking “trips down memory lane.” On October 10, 1985 he told Merv he was “feeling expansive” and to go ahead and ask him all those “gossipy” questions he’d always wanted to ask him Read MoreRead More
Credited with turning the genre from moral simplicity to moral complexity, Peckinpah’s elegiac tones and lyrical execution make it almost impossible to watch typical action westerns with the childlike excitement they once invoked. Sam Peckinpah spent his formative years as an assistant to Don Siegel, the director who would later make the Dirty Harry films Read MoreRead More
It’s easy to forget that some of the greats had to start out making the not so great… Francis Ford Coppola Oscar for:The Godfather, Part II (1974) Early efforts:Tonight for Sure (1962), The Bellboy and the Playgirls(1962) The story: Many a struggling young filmmaker has taken advantage of the quick money and relative anonymity of, um, adult entertainment early Read MoreRead More
Tom Antos discusses the Rule of Thirds and a basic approach to a two person dialogue scene.Read More
