After a late-night broadcast of the disaster film ZERO HOUR! ('57), comedy troupe members: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker bought the rights to the film to direct a scene-by-scene spoof.
The result was AIRPLANE ('80) – one of cinema's greatest comedies.
All 20 Split Diopter Shots in Brian De Palma's 1980 erotic psychological thriller. They are not gimmicks. They are part of his visual storytelling language.
Star Wars Sequel Trilogy could be removed from Timeline to Resume focus on Original Characters a new rumor says
"If true, this would be one of the most dramatic franchise shifts in modern Hollywood history."
LAST YEAR AT MARINEBAD (1961)
Only the people cast shadows onto the ground in this surreal shot. Production Designer Jacques Saulnier reveals the secret simple solution to how he did it.
I edited the sound fx in this scene in Tron: Legacy. The sounds from Sam’s motorcycle were from a Ducati recorded at Skywalker Ranch specifically for the film. We also recorded a police motorcycle & siren sounds. Working on this was a dream come true
Are you a fan of George Lucas, Francis Coppola, Walter Murch, Steven Spielberg, and/or David Lynch? Have you seen the documentary film "Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound" that they all appear in? If not, you are missing out. It's available to stream on Peacock and Tubi
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA originally had a dissolve from the blown‑out match to the sunrise, but when editor Anne V. Coates and David Lean saw the two shots joined as a straight cut, they loved the shock of it and kept it, trimming two frames to perfect it.
Kubrick staged many BARRY LYNDON shots to mimic real 18th‑century artworks, especially those by Gainsborough, Hogarth, and Constable. Wait for the wide shot here and it looks like a painting... until it starts to move.
The absolutely brilliant Don Bluth animation from the rare and extremely difficult DRAGON'S LAIR 2
These are the Alice in Wonderland and Eden Heaven and Hell segments
Luca (2021) is massively underrated. Pixar built its sun-drenched look from Italian Riviera photography, and the hand-drawn touches were inspired by Miyazaki’s early films. A gentle coming-of-age story with some of the studio’s most heartfelt animation.
Fathom Entertainment will re-release the following films in theaters throughout 2026:
• “Citizen Kane”
• “Ocean’s Eleven”
• “Silence of the Lambs”
• “Gone With the Wind”
• “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
• “Ben-Hur”
• “Fried Green Tomatoes”
• “The Birdcage”
• “The Fifth Element”
• “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory”
• “Beautiful Mind”
• “The Maltese Falcon”
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Billy Wilder on how he directs movies:
"I don’t rehearse at all. The actors forget what we were rehearsing, I forget how I rehearsed it, absolutely impossible. I have one hour of run-through before I start the shooting, sit around with the crew and the cast and discuss the sequence ahead of us each new day, what is to be noticed, where I’m going to do this and that. There’s no such thing as my coming on the set in the morning with a piece of chalk and drawing little blueprints and saying: “He will move three steps and take the cigarette out and now he will sit on the couch.”
We just fool around with ideas until the scene comes to life for all of us, then I talk to the cameraman and the cutter separately about chopping the whole thing up into separate shots. Then I go in and I might do 20 takes until it’s exactly right."
(Billy Wilder's interview with Charles Higham, Sight & Sound, 1967)
Clip from:
Sabrina (1954)
Director: Billy Wilder