Filmmaking Movies

An introverted screenwriter slowly starts to go insane while working on his new film.

Interview with filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich about Red River and the two versions of the film.

A film crew hijacks their company's current production and improves it behind the director's back.

Short documentary on the making of Buster Keaton's One Week.

As she keeps watching old home movies isolated in her hotel room, the screen becomes a mirror from which she tries to see herself. Levels of...

This jazzy short was one of two efforts in the very brief "Binko the Bear Cub" series. Completed in 1930 yet never exhibited in theaters. Created by...

This coming-of-age memoir takes a candid look back on a group of struggling creatives isolated in the Appalachian Mountains. Three generations of...

The summer of 1960 was a critical moment in the history of film, when the fly-on-the-wall documentary was born. The Camera that Changed the World...

Two film students with one week left to make their senior project need $10,000 to hire Nicolas Cage to star in their film.

Marina is a young actress in the middle of a preparation process for a character called Luísa, a timid boom operator, who finds herself...

A short documentary about the making of D. W. Griffith's controversial 'The Birth of a Nation'.

The making of Cleopatra (1934), showing pre-production, DeMille directing a scene, and the addition of music to the soundtrack.

How is secularism depicted in films? The term "Aa'La'Ma'Ni" means worldly in Arabic. It's significant in the Middle East, where secularism is...

Akerman, Monteiro, Oliveira, Ruiz, Schroeter and Wenders are among the directors he produced: Deux, trois fois Branco is a portrait of Portuguese...

Loving documentary about the invisible hand that brings light in the cinema: the projectionist. Momentarily, his booth is at the centre of this film,...

A documentary showing Norman McLaren working on the hand-drawn sound process he uses for his short film, Loops.

Short piece about Daryl F. Zanuck and his time at 20th Century Fox in the 1930s.

Is there an audience for Latin American movies? These are some of the questions posed by an Ecuadorian filmmaker whose latest movie was a commercial...

The main character has a dream: he wants to become a director. On his way to achieving it, he faces many challenges, and the hardest one is his...

The evolution of The Scarecrow (1920) is discussed in this documentary.