Anthony Hopkins On Acting

Lecture By Director Chris Buck: Making Disney's Frozen

Randy Haycock animation tests










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E.T. Returns: The Making Of “A Holiday Reunion”

Ridley Scott on How He Got Into Directing

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

Finally had a chance to see Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story. Such a fantastic film! Highly recommend it!


'Storyboard artist Harold Michelson and his film researcher wife, Lillian, recall the influence they had on 60 years of Hollywood's biggest hits.'

Seven Samurai: Drama Through Action

Movie Masterclass: The Seven Samurai

Neuroscientist and the Art of Filmmaking

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Inside Robocop: Interview With Screenwriter Michael Miner

The 80 Best-Directed Films According to the Directors Guild of America

To commemorate the DGA's 80th anniversary this year, members decided to put together a list of the '80 greatest directorial achievements in feature films since the Guild’s founding in 1936.' How many have you seen? Thanks to @vrenee_nfs over on No Film School for the heads up!

The 80 Best-Directed Films

1. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
2. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
3. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
5. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
6. The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
7. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
8. Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
9. Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
10. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
11. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
12. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
13. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
14. Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
15. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
16. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
17. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)
18. The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
19. Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977)
20. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
21. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
22. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
23. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
24. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
25. Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, 1998)
26. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
27. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
28. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
29. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
30. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
31. To Kill A Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962)
32. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
33. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
34. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994)
35. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1952)
36. 8 ½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
37. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
38. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946)
39. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
40. The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957)
41. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
42. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Miloš Forman, 1975)
43. The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965)
44. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
45. Titanic (James Cameron, 1997)
46. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
47. Amadeus (Miloš Forman, 1984)
48. Doctor Zhivago (David Lean, 1965)
49. West Side Story (Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, 1961) 
50. Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
51. Ben-Hur (William Wyler, 1959)
52. Fargo (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 1996)
53. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
54. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
55. Avatar (James Cameron, 2009)
56. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008)
57. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)
58. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro G. Iñárritu, 2014)
59. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)
60. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978)
61. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
62. The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973)
63. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
64. Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
65. Rocky (John G. Avildsen, 1976)
66. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
67. Gandhi (Richard Attenborough, 1982)
68. The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
69. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988)
70. Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
71. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940)
72. All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)
73. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
74. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
75. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
76. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
77. The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995)
78. Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
79. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
80. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)

What Long Takes Can't Do

The emerging entertainment realm of virtual reality can take a lesson from the challenges mentioned in this vid. It will be interesting to see how storytelling in VR evolves and overcomes the editing obstacles. 


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Interview with Visual Effects Supervisor and Director Mark Dippé

Peter O'Toole Documentary

Peter O'Toole on Charlie Rose

Profiles by VICE: Phil Tippett

Guardians of The Galaxy: Interview with Make-up/Hair Designer Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou

Big Eyes: Behind the Scenes

The Full Director Roundtable: Angelina Jolie, Christopher Nolan & Richard Linklater (2014)

Massive Gallery of Vehicle Models Build by ILM for Star Wars Trilogy (1977-1983)

140 up-close photos of ship and vehicle models constructed by ILM for the Original Star Wars Trilogy (1977-1983)

The Silence of the Lambs: Who Wins the Scene?

Here's a solid shot by shot breakdown by Tony Zhou  (Every Frame A Painting) of a scene from The Silence of the Lambs. An amazing amount thought, planning and staging went into this scene where Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins' characters meet for the first time. This is a great example of how important cinematography is to enhancing emotion and telling the story. Brilliant! Thanks to Tony for posting it!




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Editor Michael Kahn - Sight, Sound & Story

Michael Kahn, ACE Discusses the Most Difficult Scene to Cut from "Raiders of the Lost Ark."




Techniques Used in the Opening Scene of "Saving Private Ryan.”





Use of Slower Cuts in a Scene from "Jurassic Park."

When There Was Too Much Coverage on "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."

Industry Legends: editor Michael Kahn Full Interview





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Look Inside Reel FX and ‘The Book of Life’

// A Look Inside Reel FX and ‘The Book of Life’