Earth, wind, air, fire: this supercut from Movies in 5 Minutes examines Terrence Malick’s use of the four elements.
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 23, 2016In Wolfcrow’s new video essay, 19 great directors have their choice of focal lengths and lenses broken down, starting with Orson Welles’ use of 25mm for Citizen Kane and 18mm for Touch of Evil.
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 22, 2016Paul Thomas Anderson’s excellent video for Radiohead’s “Daydreaming” gets broken down in this video essay by Rishi Kaneria. While his analysis involves some questionable number crunching — and specifically the number 23, which calls to mind all kinds of conspiracy theories — it’s also a solid analysis of the easter eggs in the video that tell the story of the dissolution of Thom Yorke’s longterm relationship.
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 18, 2016Front windshield, over the shoulder, rearview mirror: in this video, DP Julia Swain breaks down the six basic shots used to film car scenes, complete with suggested aperture settings and the best lenses to use.
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 16, 2016When movies go wordless, what are they trying to say? This video essay by Filmscalpel’s David Verdeure examines wordless scenes from 15 films, including 2001: A Space Odyssey, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and North by Northwest. For the full list and accompanying essay, click here.
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 15, 2016David Lynch’s earliest short film is in fact a home movie, and he’d prefer it be labeled as such: a record of the artist Bushnell Keeler (an important figure for Lynch) sailing. The young director is briefly visible throughout.
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 15, 2016Fresh from Lincoln Center, here’s the line-up for the main slate of this year’s New York Film Festival. Amid the usual set of heavy-duty auteurs’ latest works (Jim Jarmusch, Olivier Assayas, the Dardennes, Kelly Reichardt et al.), there are a few outliers as usual, including Dash Shaw’s My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea, which will premiere at this year’s TIFF. NYFF runs from September 30-October 16, kicking off with the world premiere of Ava DuVernay’s new documentary The 13th and closing with another high-profile world premiere, James Gray’s The Lost City of Z. Opening Night The 13th Directed by Ava DuVernay […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 9, 2016From 2001, it’s Martin Scorsese discussing Stanley Kubrick with Charlie Rose. They start with The Shining and go from there.
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 2, 2016IFP, Filmmaker‘s parent organization, today announced that the 26th Annual Gotham Awards will take place this year at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on Monday, November 28th. The first awards show of the season, the Gotham Awards, established in 1991, is one of the leading honors for independent film and media, celebrating authentic voices behind and in front of the camera. The 2015 top film category winners were Spotlight (Best Feature), The Look of Silence (Best Documentary) and Tangerine (Audience Award). Nominated by committee recommendation in the first year, the Long Form Breakthrough Series category will be open to […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 2, 2016In his newest video essay, Kevin B. Lee breaks down how the Bourne series has changed the style of film fighting as the series continued. As he notes in a supplementary essay at Fandor, “At times it feels like a hodgepodge of fight shots dropped in random, non-linear order—something approaching an impressionist abstraction of action filmmaking. So it was somewhat of a revelation that, upon taking a fight scene from The Bourne Ultimatum and slowing it down to half speed, I could actually discern that one split-second shot from a fight linked up rather well with the next, in a spatially coherent linear sequence.”
by Filmmaker Staff on Aug 1, 2016