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Alan Ladd Jr.: “The basic rule is, if you don’t have good material, you don’t have a good movie”

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URL: https://filmtalk.org/2017/10/26/alan-ladd-jr-the-basic-rule-is-if-you-dont-have-good-material-you-dont-have-a-good-movie/

Alan Ladd, Jr.: “The basic rule is, if you don’t have good material, you don’t have a good movie”

The son of actor Alan Ladd (1913-1964), who made his screen debut in 1932 and became a leading man with Paramount’s “This Gun for Hire” (1942) co-starring Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd…

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Marc J. Francis: “Bringing in my documentary experience into the fiction film world, that’s what I would like to do”

TAGS: #MarcJFrancis #Interview #FilmInterview #FilmDirector #FilmMaker #Producer #FilmProducer #MovieProducer #Screenwriter #DocumentaryMaker #Documentary #WalkWithMe #BenedictCumberbatch #FilmNews #FilmIndustry #EntertainmentNews #Filmbuzz #FilmCommunity #Filmbuff #Moviebuff #Filmmaking #Hollywood #Storytelling #BehindTheScenes #Film #Movies #Cinema

URL: https://filmtalk.org/2017/09/21/marc-j-francis-bringing-in-my-documentary-experience-into-the-fiction-film-world-thats-what-i-would-like-to-do/

Marc J. Francis: “Bringing in my documentary experience into the fiction film world, that’s what I would like to do”

A couple of months ago, four-time Oscar-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu (“Birdman,” 2014; “The Revenant,” 2015) enthusiastically supported Mark J. Francis&#8217…

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FILM TALK Online film journal1d ago

John Landis: “I’m always taking great pride in the fact that—I hope—I don’t have a style of my own”

TAGS: #JohnLandis #Interview #FilmInterview #FilmDirector #FilmMaker #Producer #FilmProducer #MovieProducer #Screenwriter #KentuckyFriedMovie #AnimalHouse #TwilightZoneTheMovie #TradingPlaces #TheBluesBrothers #FilmNews #FilmIndustry #Filmbuzz #FilmCommunity #Moviebuff #Filmmaking #Hollywood #Storytelling #BehindTheScenes #Film #Movies #Cinema

URL: https://filmtalk.org/2017/09/06/john-landis-im-always-taking-great-pride-in-the-fact-that-i-hope-i-dont-have-a-style-of-my-own/

John Landis: “I’m always taking great pride in the fact that—I hope—I don’t have a style of my own”

As an eighteen-year-old, John Landis (b. 1950) got a job in the mailroom at 20th Century Fox, only after he had his hair cut and promised to wear a tie. Most of the legendary filmmakers he met in t…

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FILM TALK Online film journal2d ago

Roland Joffé: “I try to take the audience to an emotional place where suddenly something happens and they’re stuck”

TAGS: #RolandJoffe #RolandJoffé #Interview #FilmInterview #FilmDirector #FilmMaker #Producer #FilmProducer #MovieProducer #Screenwriter #TheMission #TheKillingFields #DavidPuttnam #FilmNews #FilmIndustry #EntertainmentNews #Filmbuzz #FilmCommunity #Filmbuff #Moviebuff #Filmmaking #Hollywood #Storytelling #BehindTheScenes #Film #Movies #Cinema

URL: https://filmtalk.org/2017/07/31/roland-joffe-i-try-to-take-the-audience-to-an-emotional-place-where-suddenly-something-happens-and-theyre-stuck/

Roland Joffé: “I try to take the audience to an emotional place where suddenly something happens and they’re stuck”

Often referred to as the man who made “The Killing Fields” (1984) and “The Mission” (1986), some of the most poignant dramas of the mid-1980s, two-time Academy Award nominee and filmmaker Roland Jo…

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‘Back to Burgundy’ with Cédric Klapisch: “I always like to discover and rediscover the characters in my films”

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URL: https://filmtalk.org/2017/06/21/back-to-burgundy-with-cedric-klapisch-i-always-like-to-discover-and-rediscover-the-characters-in-my-films/

“Back to Burgundy” with Cédric Klapisch: “I always like to discover and rediscover the characters in my films”

French filmmaker and screenwriter Cédric Klapisch (b. 1961), who made his first feature “Rien du tout” (a.k.a. “Little Nothings”) a quarter of a century ago, has been going …

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Étienne Comar: “In ‘Django’ we have this character who captures his musical fantasy in a world gone mad”

TAGS: #EtienneComar #Interview #FilmInterview #FilmDirector #FilmMaker #Producer #FilmProducer #MovieProducer #Screenwriter #CecileDeFrance #RedaKateb #Django #DjangoReinhardt #FilmNews #FilmIndustry #EntertainmentNews #Filmbuzz #FilmCommunity #MovieCommunity #Filmbuff #Moviebuff #Filmmaking #Hollywood #Storytelling #BehindTheScenes #Film #Movies #Cinema

URL: https://filmtalk.org/2017/05/07/etienne-comar-in-django-we-have-this-character-who-captures-his-musical-fantasy-in-a-world-gone-mad/

Étienne Comar: “In ‘Django’ we have this character who captures his musical fantasy in a world gone mad”

When Martin Scorsese was a guest of honor at the Cinémathèque française in Paris, late 2015, he said at the press conference: “When I grew up, I was listening to the 78 rpm records my father had, m…

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FILM TALK Online film journal2d ago

Sean Hepburn Ferrer talks about Audrey Hepburn: The actress, the mother, the style icon, and the humanitarian

TAGS: #SeanHepburnFerrer #Interview #FilmInterview #FilmProducer #Author #Oscar #AcademyAward #AudreyHepburn #RomanHoliday #BreakfastAtTiffanys #MelFerrer #FilmTalk #MovieTalk #FilmNews #FilmIndustry #EntertainmentNews #Filmbuzz #FilmCommunity #Filmbuff #Moviebuff #Filmmaking #Moviemaking #Storytelling #BehindTheScenes #Hollywood #Film #Movies #Cinema

URL: https://filmtalk.org/2016/12/08/sean-hepburn-ferrer-talks-about-audrey-hepburn-the-actress-the-mother-the-style-incon-and-the-humanitarian/

Sean Hepburn Ferrer talks about Audrey Hepburn: the actress, the mother, the style icon and the humanitarian

Let’s do the math first. If you take the Lumière brothers’ “Sortie des Usines Lumières à Lyon,” a.k.a. “Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory,” first shown publicly in March 1895—a …

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FILM TALK Online film journalSep 25

Film history: Focus on David O. Selznick, Alida Valli, and “The Paradine Case”

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URL: https://filmtalk.org/2015/07/17/film-history-focus-on-david-o-selznick-alida-valli-and-the-paradine-case/

Film history: Focus on David O. Selznick, Alida Valli and “The Paradine Case”

From: Macnamara, Paul. Those Were the Days, My Friend: My Life in Hollywood With David O. Selznick and Others [Filmmakers No. 35], pp. 105-107. Metuchen, New Jersey / London: The Scarecrow Press, I…

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FILM TALK Online film journalSep 24

Samuel Goldwyn Jr. “My father had a tremendous love for movies”

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URL: https://filmtalk.org/2015/01/11/sam-goldwyn-jr-my-father-had-a-tremendous-love-for-movies/

Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.: “My father had a tremendous love for movies”

Independent filmmaker and producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. passed away on January 9, 2015, in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, at age 88, of congestive heart failure. The son of Samuel Goldw…

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FILM TALK Online film journalSep 21

Frank Yablans: “Make wonderful films at the lowest possible cost and the highest possible return”

TAGS: #FrankYablans #Interview #FilmInterview #Producer #FilmProducer #FilmMaker #FilmTalk #MovieTalk #Hollywood #Paramount #FilmNews #FilmIndustry #EntertainmentNews #Filmbuzz #Cinemabuzz #FilmCommunity #MovieCommunity #Filmbuff #Moviebuff #Filmmaking #Moviemaking #Storytelling #BehindTheScenes #Film #Movies #Cinema

URL: https://filmtalk.org/2014/12/10/frank-yablans-make-wonderful-films-at-the-lowest-possible-cost-and-the-highest-possible-return/

Frank Yablans: “Make wonderful films at the lowest possible cost and the highest possible return”

This interview with former Hollywood studio executive and film producer Frank Yablans, who deceased late November 2014 in Los Angeles at age 79, was conducted in 1998 when he was on location in Fla…

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