I read reviews to figure out & filter whats out there. Pitchfork is great in this way. The first sentence of a review always tells you in which genre it is: 'post-punk stalwarts…' 'Ambient-electronic master so&so…' 'Psych-pop maestro…' Genre is super important. I give a shit about quality in a genre I have no…

David Thomson - brilliant, funny and influential film writer whose idiosyncratic and literary style I'll take ANY day of the week over this review's whining about wanting something 'useful'. There are ten thousand books out there groaning on about the technical parts of filmmaking. Go find them.
And by the way, he…

In terms of execution, ANY director is surrounded by highly skilled storytellers/dramaturgs/cameramen/designers/editors who carry a huge responsibility for their slice of the production.

It's got to be the "What do you mean, I'm funny?" scene in Goodfellas. It's still scary and funny all these years later, and surely every American actor still dreams of having a moment of power as great as that one.

That's movie legend. They did some atmospheric pick ups that way, but the sequence was staged.

I was on the whole gangs of new york shoot. It was all done on set in Rome. That opening fight took a couple of weeks and was nuts. The joke at the time was, one shot before lunch, one shot after lunch. However all of the bloody stuff was picked up by 2nd unit over a period of months…