Movies used to have set photographers to capture promotional images. That was because the 35mm camera image, running at 24 frames a second, was always a bit out of focus. With the […]
What happened to the set photographers?
Paul Schrader on Taxi Driver
I had a series of things falling apart, a breakdown of my marriage, a dispute with the AFI, I lost my reviewing job. I didn’t have any money and I took to […]
Music at the Movies
Miles Davis, Hank Williams, Nina Simone and Chet Baker all get the big-screen biopic treatment this spring.
‘Miles Ahead’: Anatomy of a scene with director Don Cheadle
Don Cheadle, the director and star of “Miles Ahead,” discusses a sequence from his film about Miles Davis.
‘They prefer boys in Afghanistan’
In Afghanistan women are forbidden to dance in public. Local men suffer – they want entertainment and sex at any cost. RT talked to “bachas”, boys dressed as women who dance for […]
Willem Dafoe in “Mind the Gap”
Having met while filming the adaptation of John le Carré’s A Most Wanted Man, actor-director Grigoriy Dobrygin enlisted co-star Willem Dafoe for a filmic study of the Spiderman star’s most remarkable feature: […]
A cinematic highlight in 2016 by Peter Braatz
Chris Eckman writes on Facebook: My good friend Peter Braatz is about to release what promises to be an incredible film: “Blue Velvet Revisited: a meditation on a movie.” In 1985, when […]
Japanese Movies: Pieta in the Toilet
Inspired by “Godfather of Manga” Osamu Tezuka’s last diary page, this fraught and tender story marks the fiction debut for acclaimed documentary filmmaker Daishi Matsunaga. Hiroshi (Yojiro Noda, lead singer of popular […]
“Felix” by Ian Derry
London-based yoga instructor Felix Price shows inner strength and outward flexibility as he practices his craft to the extreme.
Watch the first trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s disco drama The Get Down
Baz Luhrmann and Shawn Ryan’s ’70s musical drama The Get Down. According to The Verge’s liveblogger Ross Miller, the show features “a lot of disco, a lot of clothes-on thrusting, a few […]
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