Few weeks ago, Modern Family co-executive producer, two times Emmy and Golden Globe winner Danny Zuker gave a speech at the Newhouse School's convocation ceremony. With humor Zuker talks about his experience as a writer, his unlikely debut, his not-so-long-ago year without a job, and gives ...
Continue ReadingDarren Aronofsky is a director I discovered when Requiem for a Dream came out, I was 17 and had no clue what I was in for when I bought my ticket. I'm pretty sure my mouth stayed open during the whole movie. My expectations from movies and perceptions of them were never the same after that, an ...
Continue ReadingIt's been a while since the last animated short narrated shared on mentorless, but it definitely worths the wait. The Eagleman Stag is an eight minute no-CGI-all-stop-motion animation short writen and directed by Mikey Please, which was the 2011 BAFTA animated short film winner. As you can ...
Continue ReadingHere we are for a second The Art of Framing! The good news is today is about Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces, a movie that plays with many formats, colors, textures to narrate a multi-layered story. Rodrigo Prieto (Cinematographer), Antxón Gómez (Production Designer) , Victor Molero (A ...
Continue ReadingScottish cartoonist and illustrator Tom Gauld realized this beautiful limited edition titled 'Characters for an Epic Tale' in 2009 that is now sold-out but remains timeless and I find, a great source of inspiration to let loose of the list of set characters we always come across in screenwri ...
Continue ReadingAlfonso Cuaron is a director with a unique visual style that I have been following since Great Expectations and who gained global fame when he practically 'rebooted' the Harry Potter series (esthetically speaking) and when his dystopian sci-fi Children of Men came out, rejuvenating t ...
Continue ReadingThelma Schoonmaker is a three-time Oscar winner for best-editing and one of Martin Scorsese's life-time collaborator. They met at NYC where Schoonmaker was taking a six weeks class about cinema and Scorsese needed some help to save a movie that had been savaged by a first editor. Last week I w ...
Continue ReadingIf you follow the light ARG page on mentorless you probably remember Anton's detailed Prometheus recap and how it felt like no recap could be longer... Ha. Meet @0bFuSc8's recap about what has been recently going on with #markofthespiderman's campaign. It is extremely detailed, and ...
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