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Documentaries About Making Movies Francis Ford Coppola and Eleanor Coppola
July 2, 2025
These great documentaries about making movies are now available for streaming.
How Silence of the Lambs tricks you from the very first scene
June 29, 2025
I recently rewatched Silence of the Lambs, my favorite film, for about the hundredth time. It’s a very tight movie,
Naomi McDougall Jones Demystified
August 16, 2021
On this week's episode of Demystified, Naomi McDougall Jones explains how she's trying to disrupt the indie filmmaking industry.
April 3, 2018
"Only what one cares about will survive," and other insight Jonas Mekas has gleaned from six decades of shooting without…
December 12, 2017
When you work on a sacred text, loved around the world like Norman Lewis’s "Naples '44", the risk of failure…
August 1, 2016
Fear not the unorthodox job! How Joe Syracuse got his moviemaking start by driving sex workers around Los Angeles to…
July 30, 2015
One of the biggest debates when moviemaking is whether to make union films or non-union films. Here are the pros…
April 15, 2015
Even though we were born and raised in Turkey, our professional base is New York, so filming our first feature,…
February 3, 2007
Oscar winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker talks about what it's like to work with Martin Scorsese and how she learned the…