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B-movie guru Harry Alan Towers - More Bang for the Buck!

B-movie producer and writer Harry Alan Towers sadly died this Sunday of heart failure in Toronto. He was 88.
He made more than 100 films working with such actors as Orson Welles, Michael York, Michael Caine, Richard Harris, James Earl Jones and Tony Curtis. He sometimes used the […]

Orson Welles on Editing

Spoken as only the great Orson Welles could spoken it:

Citizen Kane: Opening with Bogdanovich & Ebert commentary

The opening scene from Orson Welles’ 1941 film “Citizen Kane”, starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten.
Roger Ebert’s commentary on Citizen Kane is without a doubt the best DVD extra ever. Not only do you get the best film ever made, you get the best film school you’ll […]

MIT: Philosophy of Film

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. MIT has made available free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required.
Below we have posted videos from 2 of […]

Musings on the Art of Cinematography

by David Worth

Imagine being able to learn about something as complex as the Art of Cinematography in only half an hour or a weekend. Isn’t that what we all want today, in our new millennium, instant gratification world of the Internet, High Def, GoogleEarth and YouTube?
As we look back to […]

The Lost Films of Orson Welles

The Lost Films of Orson Welles. Also known as Orson Welles : The One-Man Band. A film featuring Ojar Kodar and the unrealized film projects of Orson Welles. Includes clips of “The other side of the wind.”
(All 9 parts embed in playlist)

BBC Arena - Orson Welles

Extensive interview with Orson Welles in Las Vegas 1982 with Leslie Megahey. Features contributions by Welles collaborators Jeanne Moreau, Peter Bogdonovich, John Huston and Charlton Heston.
(All 16 parts embed in playlist)

Roger Ebert: “What’s your favorite movie?”

Is there a difference between “the greatest film of all time” and “your favorite movie?” Roger Ebert discusses those 2 questions and how the answer(s) change as the viewer changes.
…So it’s settled: “Citizen Kane” is the official greatest film of all time, with Renoir’s “Rules of the Game” […]

Foley Art with Orson Welles and Dean Martin

From “The Dean Martin Show,” episode dated September 17th 1970 (I think).

Francois Truffaut: Encountering Directors

by Charles Thomas Samuels
“Encountering Directors”
Paris, September 1 and 3, 1970
The image presented when Francois Truffaut played the principle role in The Wild Child—that of a short, compactly built, but expressionless and ordinary-looking young man in his late thirties—leaves out his most striking features: a smile no less charming than his […]