After the success of Easy Rider in 1972, Universal Studios gave five first time directors a shot to make their first full length feature on $1 million dollars, with complete creative control. Douglas Trumbull, after a fruitful collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey, chose to write and direct another science fiction film. Only rather than […]
I’m a sucker for “making of “features, which are sadly becoming more of an afterthought on the latest film disc releases. Quite often they are chopped up into bite sized chunks, more often back-slapping talking heads with little insight, compared to the mammoth features of a few years ago. Of course there are exceptions, though […]
The Genius of Hitchcock: Filmmakers Discuss
Alfred Hitchcock is possibly the director whose work has been most exhaustively...
Screenwriter Bob Gale and Christopher Lloyd discuss Back To The Future
On January 25 2013, at the University Of California Television, screenwriter Bob...
Jerry Lewis in “Which Way To Affront?” aka The Day The Clown Cried
There are some films that go through development hell, and achieve the...
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