Filmmaking Movies

Blue Movie Madness is indeed a mad flick featuring lots of skin as a truly loverly blue-movie maiden shows a beginner the ropes. Everything here is...

A stumped scriptwriter discovers a supernatural ability.

An interview with director Paul Annett, focusing on his cult film The Beast Must Die.

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

It’s a story that made headlines: “Festival Film Banned!” In the late 1960s, the majority of films screened in Australia were...

Welles scholar Joseph McBride discusses the 1952 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play. (A 32-minute edit of this documentary was presented...

A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of Contour, an independent martial arts comedy made for only $6,000.

Michael Dudok de Wit was asked by the famous Japanese animation studio Ghibli, to create his first feature length animated film. This would be...

An appreciation of Stagecoach, with director and Ford biographer Peter Bogdanovich.

This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations...

In the silent film era, movies were never really silent. In the background of films that made figures like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton into...

An intimate look at cinematographic creation, this visual essay shares with us secrets of the legendary Canadian animator Norman Mclaren and his...

A visual concoction of model photo-shoots, swimming routines, filmmaking, drowning, death and holocaust.

A video letter to Nancy Holt, made in homage to a shared interest in terminal lakes, framed views, monuments and time. Filmed on and around the Great...

An exploration of the intricate art of filmmaking, delving into the multifaceted stages of scriptwriting, cinematography, and meticulous final...

Documentary about the making of Ordet, from the perspective of cinematographer Henning Bendtsen.

A deep dive documentary into the history of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" from the original version that was cancelled to the production problems of the...

In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, pinpoints the locations...

A beautiful and vital film that tells the story of a young woman's fight with death.