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Terry Gilliam compares Kubrick and Spielberg

Posted on June 10, 2011 in Interviews | 2 Comments

In this TCM interview, the legendary film director Terry Gilliam reveals his opinion on Schindler’s List and why he prefers Stanley Kubrick over Steven Spielberg.

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Andy Warhol interviews Alfred Hitchcock

Posted on June 3, 2011 in Interviews | 1 Comment

This conversation that appeared in Interview Magazine in September 1974 doesn’t offer any great insights into filmmaking, but for what it lacks in informativeness it makes up for in novelty.

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Directing the Dead: Genre Directors Spill Their Guts

Posted on May 31, 2011 in Interviews | 1 Comment

Come and learn the blood-soaked secrets of lifting genre filmmaking from hack-and-slash potboiler to pulp art, with insight from some of the biggest names and smartest craftsmen in their field.

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‘Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes’ WETA Livestream Event

Posted on May 31, 2011 in Digital Effects | No Comments

A behind the scene look with WETA Digital, the industry-leading and Academy Award® winning visual effects house, on the apes in ‘Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes’.

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A Rare Interview with Stan Laurel in 1957

Posted on May 30, 2011 in Interviews | No Comments

Just two weeks after the death of his partner Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel of Classical Hollywood’s most famous double act Laurel and Hardy discusses his life and career in this 74 minute interview from 1957.

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Playwriting vs. Screenwriting

Posted on May 20, 2011 in General Screenwriting | No Comments

Writing for stage and film presents some unique challenges. Two men who’ve done both, David Rabe and Kenneth Lonergan, join WNYC’s Leonard Lopate to talk about their experience writing for the different mediums and adapting their work from one format to another.

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Clint Eastwood Talks About Directing

Posted on May 19, 2011 in Directing, Interviews | No Comments

Clint Eastwood talks about directing during the opening night of the 2010 Carmel Art & Film festival at the Sunset Center in Carmel, California.

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Seth MacFarlane Interviews George Lucas

Posted on May 18, 2011 in Interviews | No Comments

Creator and Executive Producer of Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane interviews George Lucas in this special feature found on the DVD of Blue Harvest (the Family Guy Star Wars spoof).

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Harrison Ford on Shooting Star Wars

Posted on May 17, 2011 in Interviews | No Comments

AFI sits down with Harrison Ford who talks about shooting Star Wars, the originality of the film and when he knew it was going to be a huge phenomenon.

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An Interview in 1962 with Silent Film Legend Harold Lloyd

Posted on May 16, 2011 in Interviews | No Comments

A legend of the likes of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd sits down with CBS and Harry Reasoner for an interview in 1962 to talk about his career and how they just don’t make movies like they used to…

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25 minutes with Screenwriter John August

Posted on May 14, 2011 in General Screenwriting, Interviews | No Comments

John August sits down to talk screenwriting, directing and making it in Hollywood.

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10 Legendary Filmmakers on CITIZEN KANE

Posted on May 11, 2011 in Featured, Filmmaking 360, Interviews | No Comments

Here is a collection of filmmakers discussing what many believe is the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane. The interviews include everyone from Steven Spielberg, Sydney Pollack, Charlton Heston, Martin Scorsese and more. We even threw in Donald Trump just for fun. We start with the man himself, Orson Welles.

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Steven Spielberg on the Importance of Studying Classic Films

Posted on May 10, 2011 in Interviews | No Comments

In this video clip, director Steven Spielberg talks about the importance of studying films beyond the recent past, how films of the CITIZEN KANE era influenced him and his filmmaking contemporaries, and how he requires his own children to watch “the classics.”

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Tina Fey Teaches Google’s Eric Schmidt Comedy

Posted on April 26, 2011 in Interviews | No Comments

Tina Fey joins Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt for a fireside chat about her new book, Bossypants. This event took place on April 20th, 2011 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA.

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Salman Rushdie on Film

Posted on April 18, 2011 in General Screenwriting, Interviews | No Comments

Salman Rushdie, Emory University Distinguished Writer in Residence, and Emory film studies professor Matthew Bernstein engage in a lively Creativity Conversation about film and literature at Emory University on March 19, 2009.

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