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Sergio Leone had to pay money to Akira Kurosawa for A Fistul of Dollars in an out of court settlement. Kurosawa wrote to Leone: "Signor Leone, I have just had the chance to see your film. It is a very fine film, but it is my film."
Yojimbo (1961, Akira Kurosawa)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964, Sergio Leone)
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Elevator To The Gallows (1958) score was composed and performed by Miles Davis in a one session recording while he watched a screening of the film. He took notes while watching the rough cut and then invited 4 fellow musicians without preparation to record it in one go. Genius.
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The Killing / Kubrick (1956)
Contact / Zemeckis (1997)
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Ray Liotta and Lorraine Bracco will forever enter through the kitchen in "The Copa Shot". One of cinema's touchstone moments for its technical achievement in serving as the magic doorway into Henry Hill's exclusive world. Scorsese has the couple walk in a circle to achieve depth.
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The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent.
~Stanley Kubrick
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After Michael Gambon's passing I've been rewatching Prisoner of Azkaban (mostly with the sound off), and Michael Seresin's camera work and interpretation of Alfonso Cuarón's vision always amazes me. There is so much movement, so much nuanced work that isolates Harry even when…
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Whenever I get a little down I just rewatch Don Rickles go after Robert De Niro like an assassin in the Casino outtakes. Scorsese laughing his ass off the entire time. Ego death. Beautiful.
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Willem Dafoe was fired and removed from Heaven's Gate (1980) for laughing at a joke during a lighting set-up. That experience turned him into one of the most focused performers in cinema. Dafoe doesn't blink during his 2 minute monologue in The Lighthouse (2019). The energy he…
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Elevator To The Gallows (1958) score was composed and performed by Miles Davis in a one session recording while he watched a screening of the film. He took notes while watching the rough cut and then invited 4 fellow musicians without preparation to record it in one go. Genius.
Miles Davis locked himself in a room for 5 days on his father's property in order to kick heroin. Every day is another day he doesn't have to go back to that room.
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Peter Weller is one of the most articulate actors that I've ever listened to. He takes: "What's the plot of RoboCop?" and instantly makes you want to see it. I can see completely how he became a professor. Brilliant man.
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A 14 ear old Jean-Pierre Léaud auditioned for François Truffaut's The 400 Blows after reading an ad in the newspaper. “I was as scared as the rest, but there are two kinds of fear. One closes you up, the other makes you give, almost with exuberance. Truffaut was as shy as I was…
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What is the single greatest shot in the history of cinema?
What is the single greatest shot in the history of cinema?
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Philip Seymour Hoffman holds in a laugh at the end of this scene. Look down at his lapel. He's using his diaphragm to control the urge to laugh at this brilliant exchange of totally absurd dialogue. Miss this guy so much. Damn.
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Ridley Scott unloading on critics is fun and all but when Roger Ebert called Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny "the worst film in the history of the Cannes Film festival" Gallo called for the critic to get prostate cancer. Ebert replied "I had a colonoscopy once, and they let me…
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The Shining (1980) is a cinematic maze. Wendy comments that you'd need to leave bread crumbs in order to exit The Overlook. The freezer door that Hallorann opens is not the one he closes. The kettles and plates on the table next to the door end up opposite the door they exit.
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Thelma Schoonmaker talks about her favorite Scorsese moments
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The thing I love about Jaws is the fact that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again.
~ David Fincher
Jaws
Se7en
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Martin Scorsese's favorite zoom: Robert De Niro
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Elevator To The Gallows (1958) score was composed and performed by Miles Davis in a one session recording while he watched a screening of the film. He took notes while viewing the rough cut and then invited 4 fellow musicians to record it without preparation in one go.
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Stanley Kubrick asked George C. Scott to do takes that were exaggerated and "over the top" and told him they were exercises to loosen up. He also did "normal" takes. Kubrick used all of the over the tops and it's considered one of Scott's all time great performances.
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I depend on style more than plot. It is how you do it, and not your content that makes you an artist. A story is simply a motif, just as a painter might paint a bowl of fruit just to give him something to be painting.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
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I learned more about acting from John Cazale than anybody.
~ Al Pacino
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
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Martin Scorsese didn't know why or how Hitchcock's Vertigo affected him in the way that it did as a 15 year old film goer but it's correct to assume that its impact has lasted well into contemporary filmmaking.
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Orson Welles' Touch of Evil never stops moving. It's like he senses that he has a stage to fill when he shoots a film. The stage is only interesting when there's movement- business, if you will- punctuated by small moments of stillness. Welles got his foot in the door with acting…
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The Last Waltz
Scorsese
Robbie Robertson in concert with Dylan
I Shall Be Released
Safe Travels
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I was thinking about North By Northwest and how Hitchcock always places Cary Grant to the audience's left. It's clearly a choice. Now, Hitch never discussed why he did this. I have my theory but there is no way to verify it now. I do know one thing though- it wasn't a glitch.
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Wim Wenders traveled through the U.S. west in search of filming locations for Paris, Texas in 1983. The pictures he took became the photograph collection titled Written In The West.
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Michael Caine has retired at the age of 90. That's a run.
Please, you princes of Maine, you kings and queens of New England, tell me your favorite Michael Caine role.
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"Ridley felt the style of photography in Citizen Kane most closely approached the look he wanted for Blade Runner. This included, among other things, high contrast, unusual camera angles and the use of shafts of light."
~ Jordan Cronenweth, ASC
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John Huston giving one of the most thoughtful responses to "Why film?" I have ever heard. A filmmaker just wants to connect to an audience that might think like they do.
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Guillermo del Toro talking to The Coen Brothers about wide angles, Sam Raimi and how Touch of Evil is "willfully full of bile" is why I'm here.
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"By the time we met, he had already made film history with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and I revered him. We started working together in the 80s, during a low ebb in my career. And it was Michael who really gave me back my sense of excitement in making movies.”
Martin Scorsese…
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Before going to sleep I sometimes like to rewatch this clip. Max Von Sydow relates the time he and Ingmar Bergman debated the existence of an after life while filming The Seventh Seal. It's one of the most touching remembrances of a fellow artist I know.
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John Huston describing cinema so precisely and with such earnest consideration.
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Psycho / Hitchcock (1960)
No Country For Old Men / Coen (2007)
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A film is--or should be--more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
~Stanley Kubrick
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Britney losing control of her own life in court while Charlie Sheen went on a tour to celebrate a drug fueled disintegration is the ultimate example of systemic gaslighting. Men losing their shit are heroes. Women losing it need to be stripped of their autonomy.
#FreeBritney
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Willem Dafoe's Max Schreck, a theater actor who may or may not be an actual vampire, has got to be my favorite portrayal of the undead in film. Based on a 1937 short story about a vampire hired into a Hollywood movie, Dafoe's immersion is equal parts hilarious and creepy AF. The…
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Martin Scorsese introducing Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar is all the film school I need.
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"Most of my friends are gone. They’re all new people. I don’t know them anymore. It’s a new town. It’s a new industry. It’s just like, I can’t hang out there. Except when I’m with Leo.”
~ Martin Scorsese
The Wolf of Wall Street
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Movies aren’t finished, they’re abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.
~ David Fincher
The Social Network
Citizen Kane
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Francis Ford Coppola describes his own personal horror while filming Apocalypse Now.
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Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.
~ David Fincher
The Social Network
Citizen Kane
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Jack Nicholson used to hang out and have a coffee at a diner on the strip. One evening, showing up late to join some friends, the waitress took his coffee away before he could drink it and told them to leave. His reaction became the first written scene in Five Easy Pieces.
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Orson Welles being the smartest one in the room as he responds to critics of violence and horror in film.
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Orson Welles describes his single greatest asset before filming Citizen Kane: Ignorance.
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...
Blade Runner
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The best way to learn anything is through a movie, because you have so much time to do it and you have great people teaching you.
~ Ray Liotta
Goodfellas (1990)
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Margaret Sixel's editing is mesmerizing. She makes a 9 second sequence feel like it's own short film.
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Daniel Day Lewis dedicated his Best Actor Oscar for There Will Be Blood to Heath Ledger. Citing his performances in Monster's Ball and Brokeback Mountain as inspirations for him to continue performing in film. "He was unique. He was perfect."
Brokeback Mountain
The Dark Knight
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Walter Murch describes the soundscape of elevated trains surrounding the The Godfather's restaurant scene as "neurons rubbing together in Michael's brain".
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Miles Davis locked himself in a room for 5 days on his father's property in order to kick heroin. Every day is another day he doesn't have to go back to that room.
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Toshiro Mifune developed character ticks for his roles in film. He and Akira Kurosawa viewed the characters of Yojimbo (1961) as embodying animal traits. Mifune's character is dog like, flinching off fleas as he strides through the landscape; the wandering gait of a stray.
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Yaphet Kotto talks about how Alien and Ridley Scott "made his dream come true" and changed his life in a profound way.
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"Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man."
Scorsese's Lonely Man
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“Ridley felt the style of photography in Citizen Kane most closely approached the look he wanted for Blade Runner. This included, among other things, high contrast, unusual camera angles and the use of shafts of light.”
~ Jordan Cronenweth ASC
Citizen Kane
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The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
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The similarities between K wanting to be a "real boy" and Pinocchio's journey "twin" quite well.
Pinocchio
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Twining in Blade Runner 2049 not only follows Phillip K. Dick's original thematic vision throughout all of his work but it nods to other films as well. This nod to Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange is Villeneuve's "twining" with films that have inspired his own works.
If you want to…
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Mickey Rourke believed he was one of the principal players in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line. He developed his character of the sniper over months of work. He showed up to the premier ready to celebrate with his cast mates only to find he had been completely removed in edit.
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The Conversation gets a little lost behind the smoke of the fires set by Apocalypse Now and The Godfather part 1 and 2 but, damn, it's one of the finest films ever made and torn down to the lathe and plaster.
Just saw THE CONVERSATION and this might be my favorite performance ever??
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Francis Coppola and Akira Kurosawa collaborate over some Suntory Whiskey
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Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Orpheus / Cocteau (1950)
The Matrix / Wachowski (1999)
Which is your favourite 'Mirror' sequence from a movie?
I'll begin:
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Director: Orson Welles
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William Friedkin interviewed Fritz Lang in 1975 and it's an amazing talk. Filmmakers who love film talking to their heroes. That's the long spool thread in cinema. Artists encouraging and inspiring other artists. He knew cinema as well as Scorsese, Lynch, Kubrick. Safe travels,…
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The Shining / Kubrick (1980)
The Lighthouse / Eggers (2019)
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Gary Oldman's secret to being one of the best bad guys in cinema are his entrances.
Leon: The Professional (1994)
Besson
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Somehow, and this is understanding that Martin Sheen's performance was improvisational, Coppola brought a visual reference to Marlon Brando's performance that Brando would've been ignorant of. Brando was only on set for 4 weeks near the end of filming.
G'nite.
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Vincent Price on what you need to make a legit horror film.
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