Alfred Hitchcock’s definition of pure cinema: “Like notes of music make a melody”
He’d know better than most.
Cutting Room Floor Archives: 07/2024
‘Who Killed Captain Alex?’: the heart-warming tale of how Uganda made the cheapest movie ever
Imagination has no budgetary restrictions.
‘The Cure for Insomnia’: the strange tale of an 87-hour movie
There’s butt-numbing, and then there’s this.
James Caan’s favourite scene from ‘The Godfather’
“That turned out great. So that was a good scene.”
Spike Lee’s bizarre late-night phone call from Marlon Brando: “I didn’t believe it was him”
It wasn’t even that strange for late-stage Brando.
Jack Nicholson on the worst fate that can befall an actor: “Worse than being totally unknown”
It’s a tough business to succeed in.
Ben Affleck names “the most complicated and interesting” role he’s ever played
Funnily enough, it’s not ‘Gigli’.
Richard Gere names “the hardest thing I have ever done” for a role
It wasn’t even worth it in the end.
The performance Tom Hanks prepared for by eating at Burger King and Dairy Queen
“It was a great summer. And my entire family still speaks about it.”
“I like to have fun”: how Clint Eastwood creates an atmosphere on set
“I like everyone to be in good humour.”
The actor Francis Ford Coppola called “the funniest person I’ve ever known”
“Closer than any motion picture figure I’ve ever known…”