https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtAK2Kq5NXM
"On how Italian modernist Michelangelo Antonioni fashioned his first film, ‘Story of a Love Affair,’ after 1940s Hollywood noir" By Kevin B. Lee
Or perhaps to put it another way, the marriage of neorealism with noir....
https://vimeo.com/116102999
Check-out this neat montage of strong moments from some of Gena Rowlands' best screen performances. She provides a few thoughts on acting here too.
Overall, we are reminded of how Rowlands created a string of performances of immense power. She was not frightened of confronting deep...
https://vimeo.com/109637101
"After watching twenty-nine Buster Keaton films, I was struck by his use of symmetry and center framing. This is an attempt to capture that. Before Stanley Kubrick and Wes Anderson made it famous for modern audiences, there was Buster Keaton." - Vince Di Meglio
“The greatest...
https://vimeo.com/118543551
Ned Rifle is the conclusion to Hartley's trilogy which started with Henry Fool then continued with Fay Grim.
I actually backed Ned Rifle on Kickstarter, and wrote a blogpost on why I did.
Anyway, the trailer looks terrific and I cannot wait to see the finished film....
https://vimeo.com/196788868
By Kevin B. Lee
"Video essay on the seminal Italian neorealist film LOVE IN THE CITY, which includes films by Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini"...
Over the last 10 years or so, I've been lucky enough to see many of my favourite films projected on to the big screen, largely due to various retrospectives. As would be expected, the big screen significantly enriches our experience of a film, although it...
I backed Irish filmmaker Maximilian Le Cain's first feature film on Indiegogo. They're raising funds up until the 7th August. It looks like a really strong project, described as "ghost love in a haunted landscape: a challenging and darkly poetic experimental feature film". Check out...
For those who are worried that producing work would cost them their relentless focus on acting, that they would be spreading themselves too thin - here's some words of wisdom from one of the greatest actor-producers of them all, John Cassavetes. For those who don't...