A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the actors and camera crew, shooting the scenes, watching dailies, working with the editor and composer, and attending the first preview. Then a number of real directors are shown in archive footage (as well as a predominance of staged 'archive' footage) working with actors and crew.
The program on this DVD is basically a retrospective produced in the early 1990s for public televisi...
A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly nam...
This short is one of Paramount's "Popular Science" series (number L6-5, or the fifth one of the 1946...
Four lives that could not be more different and a single passion that unites them: the unconditional...
When Francois Truffaut approached Alfred Hitchcock in 1962 with the idea of having a long conversati...
This bicycle-safety film shows children what can happen when bicycles are driven carelessly and reck...
With a movie camera mounted in the passenger seat of his car, Andy Anderson drove around filming his...
A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and Strin...
Time Stood Still is a 1956 Warner Brothers Scope Gem travelogue, filmed the previous year in Dinkels...
A memory of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), woman, actress, goddess, myth, in the words of the Spanish d...
Released two years after James Dean's death, this documentary chronicles his short life and career v...
A film about the expansion of the Central Line beyond Stratford.
An international team of climbers ascends Mt. Everest in the spring of 1996. The film depicts their ...
EXTREME is a visually stunning 45-minute journey into the soul of adventure featuring a cast of worl...
This film takes viewers through the rich, white majesty of the Inuit Great North. Along with doing j...