James Steven Beverly

http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2014/20-great-hollywood-costume-designers-you-should-know-about/

http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2014/5-case-studies-of-jean-luc-godards-innovative-filmmaking-techniques/

http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2014/10-films-that-can-teach-you-everything-you-need-to-know-about-sound-design/

I kinda agree but honesty, directing is generally perceived as a a male dominated profession though MANY women have MORE thant proven their salt when is comes to helming a feature. I really don't know why women seem to hold second class citizenship when it comes to directing other than the domineering necessity of ramroding a production to fruition which seems to be a testosterone driven advantage for whatever reason and yet MANY female directors florish and create masterpieces. Strange but I'm glad you broght that up, Richie/ Here's some more interviews fron THR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTi634iZ7o8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgZsPepO9Z0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVEparrBK8A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmvcHLUXSkY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAK3aUq25fo Interesting insight into the minds of some of the best directors currently working today. Very cool stuff!

I would have gone with: Days Of Heaven (Best use of Natural light in cinematography) Apacollypse Now Redux (Best use of cinematography to tell a story) Lawrance Of Arabia (Best use of epic cinematic vistas) Taxi Driver (Best use of camera movement in a crime drama) The Maltese Falcon (Best Noir Cinematography) Star Wars (Best minature cinematography) Shane (Best Western cinematography) Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Best color fantasy cinematography) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) (Best B&W fantasy cinematography) There are more but I start with these.

http://www.tasteofcinema.com/we-love-lists/

http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2014/20-directors-who-are-good-at-making-visually-stunning-films/

http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2014/10-films-that-can-teach-you-everything-you-need-to-know-about-cinematography/ http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2014/20-directors-who-are-good-at-making-visually-stunning-films/

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/59511000/jpg/_59511692_05.jpg Also the Queen's trike, just for the fun of it/

Sometimes you see some innovative technique that is so out of the box you wonder how they ever came up with the concept. I give you one of those moments from a hundred years ago: http://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/2014/06/04/how-world-war-i-took-supporting-our-troops-to-new-levels/ Queen Victoria’s tricycle

Yeah, I hear ya, buddy! I feel the same way. Now if I can only convince Cruise to let me direct. I think I've got a shot, maybe not his FIRST choice, maybe 3rd or 5th, 2016th, somewhere in there, but definitely a shot! :D

:lol: :lol: :lol: , LMAO, Phil, sometimes you are positively inspirational. That was hilarious! I would only take issue on one point in the original instalment, Reality is definaltely subjective in this fillm but it was and is REALLY COOL to sit down, munch popcorn and live vicariously through this kick ass, adrenaline fuelled blockbuster! God Bless America ans Tom Cruise!! B)

Did you say Bond, James Bond, I LOVE THAT GUY!! Is Danel Craig repriing th role?

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jerry-bruckheimer-says-top-gun-692449 Nearly 30 years affer the first one Maverick is back in the saddle again according this latest article which I HOPE is straight up reality after the many times it's been pitched (I know,, straight up in Hollywood??!!, but one can always hope and it would be a great project for today's audience). I'm not sure what Tom will be "flying" in this one BUT as "Goose" got capped in the first one and F-14 Tomcats were retired in 2006, I'm guessing it'll be the F-35 or VFAX. PROBABLY the F-35 though!! That would actually be way cool. Highway to the DANGER ZONE forever, baby!! B)

I am SSOOO waiting for this film!! Depp as John Dillenger in 2009s "Public Enemies" was one of the BEST portrayals of gangster life and noir I've ever seen. I LOVED that movie. I can hardly wait to see what he does with Whitey Bulger, one of the last old school gangsters.

Oh, I don't dicount the fact that there is a significant number of budgeted features being shot on Alexi with decent budgets, GENERALLY SPEAKING though, most features with budgets over 1.5 mil are shot on film. Most of the time Alexi are used on movies which have a significant amount of VFX because it saves money over all to use digital acquisition on an FX driven feature. It's simple economics.

The great character actor, Eli Wallach passed away last night at the age of 98. I will miss he art and his talent. I first remember seeing him as "Tuco", opposite Clint Eastwood's "Blondie" and Lee Van Cleef's "Angel Eyes" in perhaps the best Spaghetti Western ever made Leone's "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and of course, Wallach Played "The Ugly" in a tour de force performance that often stole the show from his ultra -talented co-stars. His line "When you have to shoot, shhot, don't talk. still makes me laugh. He had played a Mexican bandit before in the remake of Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai", John Sturges' "The Magnificent Seven". Though the performance was more restrained by the needs of the script, Wallach as the marauding Mexican bandit leader, "Calvera" managed quite handily to hold his own along side the likes of Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn not to mention Brad Dexter, and Horst Buchholz , Of course he was wimsically magnificent as "Silva Vacarro" in "Baby Doll". Another picture he had a small role in that I loved was as "The Man-in-oil" in the Bruce Lee conceived "Circle Of Iron" where he plays a man trying to acchieve enlightenment by desolving away his...ahum....means of Earthly passions. Bizarre, yes, but handled OH SO WELL by Wallach. He did finally get the well deserved recogniton he earned when The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences bestowed on him the great honor of a Lifetime Achievement Honorary Oscar Award in 2010 and one accolade I felt was long over due. Though I am sorry in his passing, I relish the fact that I had the opportunity to experience his wonderful work. Now as it is at an end, now may he rest peacefully in the bosom of light and beauty eternal.

If it's got a decent budget, chances are it'll be shot on film.

You ALSO will surely dig this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPmj7j7P0sk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVeC14_mIe4\ Check it out. REAL COOLm STUFF!!

Actually, the only picture I wrote in 2004 is ######### which was a Sci/Fi pic. I have continued to write and am still writing screen plays. ####### was written in 2006 action/adventure/horror, ##### in 2007 action, ##### in 2008 thriller noir, ######## 2009 Sci//Fi ##### action adventure/horror in 2010, ###### in 2010 comedy action/adventure, ######. 2011 mob movie, ###### 2012 Sci/Fi action ###### 2013 Horror, ######## 2014 post apocalyptic action, ###### 2014 war comedy, not to mention my automotive TV series pilot ####### 2010 and our animated web series ####### 2014 that is currently being created. That doesn't include the titles still in development of which there are currently six. I had originally put the titles in this text then remembered one of my title names was usurped for some D picture starring Ron Jerrimy in a NON-porn piece of crap so I decided to keep my titles my business. You know, you must be thinking I'm some whole other person. I work every day on my craft pending almost every waking moment on educating myself in the art of film production. I consider myself an eternal student of the cinematic arts and no matter how good I get, will always strive to be better and learn from those who have something to offer. I very much will think what I want because in the end I find, despite my occasional doubts, that I am inevitably right most of the time. That's not arrogance, it's the confidence of having taken great pains to learn what I need to know to do this job. Maybe that's what you should be concentrating on right now instead of ragging on those who have already proven their worth.

Kim Kardashian isn't an actress, she's a celebrity but I'll be damned if I can find anyone who knows WHY ao she's known for being known.... and after that video, in the biblical sence. The reason Jolie makes all that money is she puts asses in the seats. Studios aren't charities, they expect their films to make money and they make money because of the stars they hire to be in their movies so if an actress is making a WHOLE LOT of money to be in one of their movies, chances are she pretty damn good at what she does and a WHOLE LOT of people know that. The money is more of an indicator of what the star brings to the table. Now, as for your contempt for Gone With the Wind, You actually have the unmitigated gall to diss one of the top 10 greatest motion pictures in the history of film and the Academy Award winner in arguably the greatest year of cinema? Dark Victory Gone With the Wind Goodbye, Mr. Chips Love Affair Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Ninotchka Of Mice and Men Stagecoach The Wizard of Oz Wuthering Heights And with ALL these BRILLIANT cinematic masterpieces ONE FILM stood head and shoulders above the rest in it's epic exicution, Gone With The Wind. Some might say The Wizard of Oz was a close second but even though it is one of my favorite all time films, it can not compare to the grandeur of Gone With The Wind. As for Vivian Leigh's performance in Gone With The Wind, she was pitch perfect. She was EVERYTHING Scarlett O'Hara should have been and was, beautiful, spoiled, self absorbed, cruel, ruthless, passionate, frivolous, iron willed, resourceful, tyrannical and singleminded. She carried the movie, Gable also gave a great performance perhaps his greatest with the exception of The Misfits, but he had far less to do. Leslie Howard and Olivia DeHavilind also did some of their finest work in the picture. Hattie McDaniel was so good in the picture that She, a black woman, became the first black actor to win an academy award and in 1939 no less when racism was out in the open and in full swing! ALL of that happen because Leigh gave every other actor on set something to play off of. Without Leigh's greatest performance, Gone With The Wind would have NEVER became the iconic classic it is. As for Brando, Brando's style of acting wouldn't have WORKED in G.W.T.W. , As good as he was, he couldn't have POSSIBLY played Rett Butler. the very idea of putting a guy like Brando in an epic costumed melodrama is patently ridiculous and before you start spouting off about Mutany on the Bounty, remember it bombed harded than a B-52. Quite frankly, if you and your film students laughed at Leigh's performance in Gone With The Wind then that "Film Class" of your's was a joke and you are an amature.

Neather am I, I was born in Rock Springs, Wyoming so that makes my point even more valid. You should HAVE such a terrible actress in a movie. Apparently Angelina wasn't too bad as a tough girl because she's have several action franchises and made a freakin" FORTUNE playing one as in 20 mil per plus backend. She along with Milla Jovovich are the top female action stars on the planet! BUT OMG, you're so TOTALLY RIGHT that Vivian Leigh, you know that woman who beat out 1400 unknown actresses and 32 of Hollywood's BEST to win the most coverted role in motion picture history, was EVER SO WRONG for that role!! What could Selznick, the meticulous, micro-managing perfectionist from Hell who insisted with SHEER IRON WILL that EVERY SINGLE FRAME of Gone With The Wind be PURE Margaret Mitchell, have been THINKING!! I'm aghast! YOU should do a remake and SHOW EVERYONE how Selznick and Leigh TOTALLY screwed up! The last time I entcountered this kind of arrogance I was reading an article about a guy in prison who was suing himself for selling drugs so he could cash in on criminal tendencies. I started acting when I was six and worked with 70s and 80s auteur director Hal Ashby when I was a teenager, who, BTW, took the time to come to my trailer between setups and thank me for the excellent work I was doing. The value I have for actors is do they resonate with their audience. Gary Cooper was never flamboyant and when you watched him on set, it didn't look like he was doing much of anything but when you saw him on screen you couldn't take your eyes off him. Will Ferrell is insane, at times even full blown psychotic, and again, you can't take your eyes off him. Take a look at PBS's American Cinema episode 2 "The Star" and maybe, just MAYBE you might start to get it, but quite frankly, I somehow doubt you every really will. Movie stars really are different from other people and that's something you'll really never understand. It isn't about the acting or the looks or the voice. It's about the identification the people have for them. The audience lives vicariously through their art and there is no way to understand how the mechanism works, it just is.