Filmmaking Movies

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...

Explores behind the big screen to meet the filmmakers, distributors and exhibitors who bring Australian films to us, the audience. Closures of many...

Filmmaker Alexander Freeman who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of two, was raised by his loving and supportive parents but the one...

Welles scholar Joseph McBride discusses the 1952 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play. (A 32-minute edit of this documentary was presented...

This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations...

When a day in the life of a beleaguered Egyptian filmmaker goes sideways, he witnesses anew issues like class and gender relations.

Behind-the-scenes tidbits of "The Legend of the Stardust Brothers".

Portrait of director Andrey Zvyagintsev against the background of the filming of his film "Loveless".

Blue Movie Madness is indeed a mad flick featuring lots of skin as a truly loverly blue-movie maiden shows a beginner the ropes. Everything here is...

A brief look at the history of "Homicide: Life on the Street", one of the best shows on television and its ratings history as well as some of the...

Against a collage of excerpts that span thirty-four films, a filmmaker reflects on the community he has built over more then a decade of low-budget...

After going through a breakup and moving back home, James navigates through a "quarter life crisis" while dealing with mental illness, a spandex...

Three sequences which could have formed separate stories are linked together to give a larger perspective on the nature of reality and film. The...

David Carradine discusses his career and memories of making Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat.

Thirty years, three eras: they have been trying to save the Hungarian film industry again and again over the decades. Among these attempts were...

Interview-based documentary looking back on the making and reception of René Clément's 1952 film "Forbidden Games."

Disney animator Dan Lund documents the studio's decision to shut down its hand-drawn animation department and focus instead on computer-generated...

Documentary about Stanley Kramer, included on the 40th anniversary edition of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

A young filmmaker accidentally claps her idol’s mystical clapperboard, throwing the two on a frantic journey through film genres and beyond.

In the summer of ’83 a camera crew visited Valkhn Films, an editing house where Style Wars was being painstakingly spliced together. This 25...