1956 yılının yazında, 23 yaşında genç bir delikanlı olan Colin Clark, Oxford'da okuduğu bölümü terk ederek, sinema sektörüne girer ve kendisini o sırada çekimlerine başlanan “The Prince and the Showgirl” adlı filmin setinde, en alt kademedeki asistanlardan biri olarak bulur. Sir Laurence Olivier, efsanevi yıldız Marilyn Monroe ve o dönem yeni evlendiği kocası, İngiliz tiyatro oyun yazarı Aurthur Miller'ı merkezine alan film, asistan Colin'in gözünden Monroe'nun İngiltere'de geçen bir haftasını anlatıyor.
Genç yönetmen Higurashi, zombilerle ilgili düşük bütçeli bir korku filmi çekmeye karar verir. Pek de yetenekli olmayan oyuncularla çekime başlayan yönetmen İkinci Dünya Savaşı zamanında terk edilen bir Japon tesisini kullanır. Ancak çok geçmeden sette gerçek zombilerin saldırısına uğrarlar. Ekip ve oyuncular son derece tehlikeli olan zombilerden kaçmaya çalışırken yönetmen bunu bir fırsata çevirmeye, her şeyi kayıt altına almaya karar verir.
A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.
Province of Burgos, northern Spain, October 2015. A group of fans undertake the titanic task of restoring the location of the last scene of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the mythical spaghetti western directed by Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone in 1966.
Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.
Hikaye, mahallelerinde sokağa atılan ve yaz boyunca uzun metrajlı bir filmde oynamak üzere seçilen bir grup gencin etrafında dönüyor. Film, bu film çekiminin ve bu süreçte kurulacak olan bağlantıların öyküsünü anlatıyor.
Hawaii, Mayıs 1977. Star Wars’ın başarısının ardından George Lucas ve Steven Spielberg, birlikte çalışacak yeni bir proje bulmak için bir araya geldi. Birincisi yapımcı, ikincisi yönetmen olarak görev aldı. Karizmatik arkeolog Indiana Jones’un nasıl doğduğu ve 1981’de vizyona giren ilk macerasının dünya genelinde gişede nasıl zafer kazandığı hikâyesi.
An intimate chronicle of the shooting of Ran (1985), a film directed by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows his friend, film director Martin Scorsese, and his cast and crew, through various locations during the shooting of his film The Departed, released in 2006.
Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession of the loot box of two crooks who tried to rob him.
In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almost four decades after the end of the World War II. Millions of viewers worldwide make Das Boot the most internationally successful German film of all time. But due to disputes over the script, accidents on the set, and voices accusing the makers of glorifying the war, the project was many times on the verge of being cancelled.
Ferruccio Castronuovo was the only authorized eye, between 1976 and 1986, to film the brilliant Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini (1920-1993) in his personal and creative intimacy, to capture the gears of his great circus, his fantastic lies and his crazy inventions.
Ridley Scott's cult film Blade Runner, based on a novel by Philip K. Dick and released in 1982, is one of the most influential science fiction films ever made. Its depiction of Los Angeles in the year 2019 is oppressively prophetic: climate catastrophe, increasing public surveillance, powerful monopolistic corporations, highly evolved artificial intelligence; a fantastic vision of the future world that has become a frightening reality.
A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in 1940.
How are the sex scenes filmed? What tricks are used to fake the desire? How do the interpreters prepare and feel? Spanish actors and directors talk about the most intimate side of acting, about the tricks and work methods when narrating exposed sex. In Spain the general rule is that there are no rules. Each film, each interpreter, faces it in very different ways.
The epic story of how the film The African Queen (1951), directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, was shot on real African locations, barely overcoming all kinds of hardships and disasters.
Students' team shoot a short film. Tensions, nearness, funny situations created by the plateau. A game of hide-and-seek takes place between the life, the reality, the artistic intentions, the fatigue, the stress and the paranoias which are connected to him.
Graduation work of Haruka Suzuki.
A temperamental director multiple times completely changes the concept during a movie's production.