S ometime in the late ’50s, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann sat down to write an essay about a subject that had been mostly overlooked by other psychoanalysts up to that point. Even Freud had only touched on i

January 2004 Don't Look in the Theater!! BY DAVID GEFFNER Director Brad Anderson and Christian Bale on the set of The Machinist Movies trade in primal emotions, and fear is right at the top of the lis

Fall 2006 TERRY GILLIAM Welcome to Brazil Terry Gilliam used home-made ingenuity to create the high-tech lowdown look of his Orwellian nightmare. Here he shows how he shot his hero's torture and escap

Fall 2005 At Sea With Peter Weir In Master and Commander the director captures the intensity and beauty of fighting ships with a combination of modern technology and old-fashioned storytelling. Before

Share on Facebook Fall 2006 Darren Aronofsky Sword of Doom As an aspiring director, Darren Aronofsky played Kurosawa's classic samurai tale Yojimbo so much he wore out the tape. Hear what he learned a

Y ou can learn a lot about the way the movie industry works in a given moment by looking at its successes (whether accidental or engineered), but often you can learn even more by looking at its failur

On the monitor screen, Tom Hanks’s eyes, in extreme closeup, flickered through a complicated sequence of emotions: hatred, fear, anger, doubt. “Cut!” Lana Wachowski shouted. The crew on Stage 9 at Bab

ry jarring, you’ve got to be using them for effect. A single is a special effect. There’s great power in having both actors in the same frame, even if you’re just feeling a bit of one person’s shoulder. It gives the scene more energy, because you’ve got two actors working with the same timing. Their…

John Gara HOLLYWOOD — Over the course of the first weekend in May, Gail Sistrunk McTiernan spent about 11 hours with her husband John McTiernan in the visiting room of the Yankton Federal Prison Camp

May 28, 2013 at 10:50 AM by Now that the Xbox One has been revealed , joining the already-released Wii U and the previously announced PlayStation 4 , we can finally get a sense of what the next genera

In our houses, cars, and factories, we’re surrounded by tiny, intelligent devices that capture data about how we live and what we do. Now they are beginning to talk to one another. Soon we’ll be able

There were plenty of high profile people at the Economist event in March, but hands down the best session was a simple interview with Ed Catmull , the president of Pixar [update: he has a book out now

This piece examining the 25years of violence & video game research is an eye opener. http://t.co/V0fPtUUkFw

Cinema is a medium. Television is an appliance. Cinema is art. TV is product. Cinema is driven by directors. Television is driven by writers and producers. That’s why there’s nothing good on TV. If yo

There's a real benefit to understanding the daily grind, the job aspect of the privilege of doing what you love http://t.co/90HQLZEjtU

Spring 2013 In the Trenches with Stanley Kubrick James B. Harris produced three films with his friend Stanley Kubrick. In this interview, he offers a rare glimpse of life on the set with Kubrick-- not

And I know I already posted this, but "Find What You Love And Let It Kill You." http://t.co/E6bHm53KtM #scriptchat

Site-Wide Labor Day Weekend Sale 20% off everything—use code PB20 at checkout Welcome Our September Playmate She's an optimist, and herbalist, who manifests her dreams into existence Pleasure, Pleasur

the amazing @chrismcquarrie says awful but true things in an interview: http://t.co/dicfnhN4Ie

Mad Men fever is raging everywhere, with just a few more days before the excellent two-hour season premiere. How do you endure the agonizing suspense, while preparing to jump back into the story? You reappreciate the glories of last season. Which can only mean one thing: Roger Sterling’s acid trip…

Sunday | January 30, 2011 open printable version DB here: What do John Ford, Andy Warhol, and David Fincher have in common? Eyeball these remarks. Ford, asked what the audience should watch for in a m

Tuesday | January 16, 2007 open printable version Most professional critics seem uninterested in the film shot as a shot. They might notice when the images call flagrant attention to themselves, as in

Thursday | April 14, 2011 open printable version David Fincher, foreground left, lays out a scene for The Social Network Kristin here: Every year or so I write an entry on useful DVD supplements. Thes

Book Publishers Scramble to Rewrite Their Future | Underwire | http://t.co/N0LxK3u4Rc http://t.co/9uF5Ufj6bU

'Snow White' coating protects SpaceX Dragon's trunk against rigors of space http://t.co/XNX9lmjvjo

I have no phone. I have no internet connection. I am twenty-eight years old, a so-called digital native, and the wired world is my God-and/or-Jobs-given birth right. And yet like US Homeland Security

Harebrained Schemes is the studio working on Shadowrun Returns , the Kickstarter-supported remake of the cyberpunk/fantasy RPG that has been around for 25 years in various forms. Jordan Weisman, leade

Director Paul Verhoeven. This is the first of two conversations I've had with director Paul Verhoeven, the second being for his WW II drama "Black Book." When I met Verhoeven in the Sony Pictures comm

The kind of recipe for success that a soft-drink company might guard with fierce vigilance, a movie company puts online for all to see. Emma Coats, a former storyboard artist at Pixar, sent out a list of the company’s “22 Rules of Storytelling.” I confess, I thought there was just one—“whatever…

The Toughest Scene I Wrote: Mark Boal on Zero Dark Thirty’s Torturous Opening - http://t.co/Gc5ox1pu #screenwriting #scriptchat #script

Few men know Steven Spielberg as well as Janusz Kaminski. The Oscar winning, Polish-born cinematographer has shot all of Spielberg’s films since 1993, and their latest collaboration, Lincoln , is in t

The Toughest Scene I Wrote: Screenwriter Chris Terrio on Argo http://t.co/9m0MT1uL

As a new model for production Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome is a very interesting model, both from a production/virtual production standpoint and distribution. Distribution The first episode of

Benh Zeitlin arrives to Kustendorf 2013. Despite legions of advice to the contrary, there is no quick-fix scheme toward making a feature film. What it really comes down to is creating a universal stor

Recently I was going through some old things I had put away for safekeeping, and I found these: Business card and interview tape, circa 1993. In 1993 I interviewed film director Ang Lee before the US

'The Force is With Her': how Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy got J.J. Abrams to sign on the dotted line http://t.co/jsnnNaqV (via @pdstafford)