Tag: Movies

“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…

Filmotomy now has the unwavering support of two recently appointed Deputy Editors in Bianca Garner and Steve Schweighofer. As the site continues to grow, the…

“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…

Edgar Wright is nothing if not entertaining. His kinetic style of filmmaking often reflects not only the action sequences, but also the almost wholesome depiction…

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…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest opens and closes with a tranquil setting, open land at near-dark, mountains, that stirring Jack Nitzsche score – emotively…

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…

“I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There’s not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the editing…

“You kind of form a bond with your subjects, in a way. You’re in it together. To a degree that people don’t realize, documentary films…

“If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you’ve got to find a language. Which goes…

*** SOME SPOILERS *** In the opening scenes of the 1999 bare-bones British drama The War Zone, some effort is made to establish what might…