Tag: Films

In real life, 10 years is a long time. On film, 10 years can drift by like the dawn of autumn breeze. It can be…

This week’s podcast takes a swift turn off the usual road, as the discussion heads for the elusive B movie. No, not bee, B. That…

“Abdellatif Kechiche is one of the greatest, most famous directors in France, and I love the trance-like feeling that you get with his cinema. I…

“I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life…

Playing our nerves and frequently our imaginations, horror movies, when done right, can set the tone. And if films like Jaws made us afraid to go…

“When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose…

“It’s a funny thing with documentary films – you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional…

“There is so much investment in it of people’s labor time that it will never make money. But there are other documentaries that you might…

“I’ve been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they’re loath to do that because they think if it’s a documentary it…

So it’s Al Pacino’s birthday next week. We were going to through him a surprise party, but the last time we did that for him…

“When you’re shooting a feature that costs $200,000 a day with a crew of 250, you don’t want accidents; you want to know exactly what’s…

“I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as discreet…

As the 71st Cannes Film Festival quickly approaches, the French Riviera is alive with the sound of movies. That is, if you can hear it…