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Lessons from the director and his influential masterpiece.
Using lighting and location to enrich style and storytelling.
From conceiving to directing, from setup to shoot – how to manage talent and capture moments.
“When people rush or get tired on set, bad things happen.”
Tips for your approach, from the overall vision to the nuts-and-bolts of realising it.
This may simply be an excuse for director Martin Scorsese to hang out with his friend Fran Lebovitz and laugh so hard he may burst. And why not?
Vibrant veteran New York artists combine for a wonderful concert film experience.
A behind-the-scenes look at making a documentary – and how to approach crafting your own.
One film-maker shares his process on three projects: a mini doc, a music video, and a solo narrative.
A collection of technical tips & tricks.
How two cash-in prequels became a toxic trilogy.
Three different ways to tell the same true story, using mostly or only archive footage and photographs.
Documentaries looking at the under-representation of females behind the camera.
What to look forward to in Professor Marston and the Wonder Women.
Adam Curtis “argues that an army of technocrats… have conspired to create an unreal world”. Watch the complete documentary here.
A joyous documentary about the greatest movie never made.
“They were breaking into offices, framing people. This is the activities of a church?”
A timely opportunity wasted on historical fanfic.
There may be a better documentary about this film’s documentarians.
Keanu Reeves interviews several of the world’s best-known filmmakers about shooting on film vs digital.
Full documentary, and lessons we can learn
In Search of Moebius: the complete documentary.
The complete, full-length documentary on the influential comic artist.
Watch the full-length documentary about the director and his mind-bending work.
How still images and minimal text and can be animated to become compelling stories.
Spoiler: when the subject is Muhammad Ali, the documentary wins.
Rutger Hauer on Harrison Ford’s “dumb character”: “He gets a gun put to his head and then he fucks a dishwasher.”
Watch the complete BBC series here.
A treasure trove of behind-the-scenes and hot takes from outspoken director, William Freidkin.
How Mrs Robinson helped change cinema.