Filmmaking Movies

A stripper and taxi driver are fished out of poverty and anonymity by a commercial film director. The obsession with success forces them to affect...

Life and work of the founder of the Cinémathèque Française.

A documentary about Tim Burton's iconic 1988 fantasy comedy Beetlejuice, covering all the aspects of production: from filming in East Corinth,...

Lonely college student Alex encounters his favorite filmmaker, JP Smith, stalking around his sleepy town in upstate NY. Together they form a...

Discover the unrealised visions and passion projects of revered British filmmaker Michael Powell, in this fascinating documentary featuring...

A documentary exploring the birth, death and resurrection of illustrated movie poster art. Through interviews with a number of key art personalities...

Two filmmakers who always fail to market their films, try to find a way to success by doing black magic in their film production.

Features clips from 21 documentary and animation film classics, interviews with NFB filmmakers past and present, and incisive commentary from film...

Short about the talent behind the musical film, Pigskin Parade, featuring Judy Garland in her first feature film.

How could the Cannes Film Festival become the biggest cinema event in the world? For 75 years, Cannes has succeeded in this prodigy of placing...

A filmmaker and rapper duo revive Michel Gondry’s “Be Kind Rewind” protocols - a set of filmmaking “rules” with which...

When a notorious food critic arrives to review his restaurant, a determined chef struggles to prepare an outstanding meal without breaking under the...

Initially, Ambivalent Future was intended as a film about the production of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Bright Future". But director Fujii has taken the...

The actors in My Wife's Relations (1922) are discussed in this documentary.

Barry Barclay was a New Zealand/Aotearoa director of documentaries and feature films. He is regarded as one of the world's first, and very...

Video piece, featuring journalist Buzz Bissinger, about trader Harry Goulding's key role in bringing Monument Valley to Hollywood.

The production sound mixer and boom operator on Tommy Wiseau's "The Room" trade war stories from their time in the trenches alongside the man, the...

A stumped scriptwriter discovers a supernatural ability.

A documentary showing Norman McLaren working on the hand-drawn sound process he uses for his short film, Loops.

A history of movie magic from 1895 to 1995, showing primitive effects used in such films as "A Trip to the Moon" up to the state of the art effects...