Filmmaking Movies

The special effects in The Play House (1921) are discussed.

In 1981, iconic Turkish film director escapes jail to France, his last work re-creating with other exiles the prison lives they left behind.

Documentary on Day Dreams (1922), a Buster Keaton silent comedy.

Film about Marcel Hanoun at work while making his film Les amants de Sarajevo in 1993.

Akerman, Monteiro, Oliveira, Ruiz, Schroeter and Wenders are among the directors he produced: Deux, trois fois Branco is a portrait of Portuguese...

An insightful short documentary about eight young filmmakers, just out of film school who all have a romantic outlook about Cinema but are equally...

Profiles the double Oscar winner, who helmed some of the most well-respected movies of all time, via never-before-seen archive and contributions from...

Documentary exploring the thirty-seven years of preparatory work that director Carl Th. Dreyer did for "Jesus of Nazareth" – a film that was...

François Truffaut (1932-1984), once the most influential critic of the French New Wave, became a brilliant, prolific, and uncompromising...

Filmed mostly on a Mini DV camera Gavin has thought of a quick way to become successful and be the master of the world but he has to wait for it all...

How could the Cannes Film Festival become the biggest cinema event in the world? For 75 years, Cannes has succeeded in this prodigy of placing...

An aspiring young actress trying to break into the film industry crosses paths with a miserable arthouse filmmaker to produce a film which manages to...

The evolution of The Scarecrow (1920) is discussed in this documentary.

Since he was 18 years old, Blake Eckard has written and directed six feature length films in his hometown of Stanberry, Missouri (population 1186)....

Behind-the-scenes tidbits of "The Legend of the Stardust Brothers".

When nerdy but lovable Jeffrey sets out to cure cancer for a class project, he accidentally drinks a deadly chemical that turns him into a deranged...

Walter Hill sits down for a rare retrospective interview for his 1981 film "Southern Comfort".

College film major JP Dalton goes back home to talk with his friends about the past, present, and future.

A documentary on the life and career of filmmaker Edward D. Wood Jr., with clips from his films and interviews with the cast and crews of some of his...