Martin McDonagh first directorial effort for a feature film didn't go unnoticed by film lovers, but very few interviews from his promotional tour for 'In Bruges' are available online. Fortunately, Gordon and The Whale recorded theirs (with a mac and an odd frame) and shared it. Until 2006, ...
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TV shows don't have yet as much space as it I'd like them to on mentorless, but as Shows gets more and more ambitious and the line between 'Film Talents' and 'TV Talents' has almost faded away, quality content to understand how TV works, what makes a good Show and who are the people behind it a ...
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Bill Viola is an american contemporary video artist that has been creating for four decades now and exposing his work all around the world. If you've never seen one of Viola's installation, they are often disturbing, but not in the way you would expect. Viola uses images and what goes with them ...
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Take a seat, have a beer and listen to indie pioneers filmmaker Ed Burns and producer Ted Hope talking about their career and how failure played its unavoidable part in shaping who they are and how they arrived where they are today. Burns and Hope met almost twenty years ago, after Burns' fi ...
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20 years ago, Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere and surprised everybody with Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, gaining worldwide attention and becoming the symbol of an "alternative" filmmaking movement. 20 years ago it was hard to know if Tarantino was more than a one trick pony director. ...
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Over the years Stanley Kubrick gave several interviews to french film critic Michel Ciment, and thanks to the one and only @LaFamiliaFilm, a video posted on Youtube in 2011 with excerpts from interviews about Barry Lyndon, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket has resurfaced. Kubrick talks abo ...
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In this three-minute video by Film Courage, filmmaker Jack Perez answers the question "What would you say to a 22 year-old Jack Perez?" Perez wishes he had defined what success meant to him early on, and the reasons why he thinks that are an absolute must listen-to. I wanted to quote him, but ...
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Paul Thomas Anderson, that I shouldn't present anymore, sat and talked with the Los Angeles Times' journalist John Horn about writing The Master, finding the character vs finding the frame first, doing research, directing actors from a script you've written etc. PTA is in this very tiny clu ...
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Biritsh filmmaker Joe Wright received worldwide attention in 2005 with his take on Austin's iconic Pride & Prejudice, and built a reputation of being the "period piece guy". It didn't came as a big surprise when he announced his next project was Anna Karenina, but things got interesting w ...
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You might remember DIY filmmaker Casey Neistat from the Nike commercial 'Make It Count' that went viral few months ago, after Neistat took Nike's budget and traveled with his editor, covering as many parts of the world they could with the money they had until they went broke, and filmed the who ...
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