Filmmaking Articles and Advice from Film Consultant Peter D. Marshall
Posted in Famous Directors on Mar 10th, 2010
This article was written by Bob Tourtellotte. “Want to be an actor, but you are beyond your 20s. Perhaps a career as a screenwriter, but you heard about age discrimination. Try directing, filmmakers are having all the luck these days — at any age. “Shutter Island” from 67-year-old director Martin Scorsese, reigned atop U.S. box [...]
Posted in Famous Directors on Jan 22nd, 2010
This article was written by Elizabeth Guider and Matthew Belloni. “When six A-list directors — Kathryn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker”); James Cameron (“Avatar”); Lee Daniels (“Precious”); Peter Jackson (“The Lovely Bones”); Jason Reitman (“Up in the Air”); and Quentin Tarantino (“Inglourious Basterds”) — gathered recently for a candid discussion of filmmaking, hilarity ensued immediately as [...]
Posted in Famous Directors on Jan 4th, 2010
This article was written by Dominic Wells. “It seemed like the ultimate folie de grandeur. James Cameron, a successful science fiction writer-cum-director, had decided to make an “intimate love story”. The only thing was, he wanted to make it aboard the Titanic. Multimillion-dollar dives were made to the wreck. Much of the boat was recreated [...]
Posted in Famous Directors on Nov 22nd, 2009
“George Lucas may be synonymous with Star Wars and sci-fi nerdom, but he is also known as one of the great pioneers of cinema, filmmaking, technology, and even gaming. He utilized boundary-pushing graphics and CGI technology to create multiple blockbuster franchises and companies, including LucasArts. And, he just had a long interview on the stage [...]
Posted in Famous Directors on Nov 18th, 2009
“Coen Brothers and the making of Blood Simple. (as told to Stephen Lowenstein) Ethan and Joel Coen have put together some of the most fascinating and memorable films since making their debut in 1984. Last year, they won an OSCAR for ‘No country for old men.’ Before that, they were most famous for ‘FARGO’ and [...]
Posted in Famous Directors on Nov 8th, 2009
“Greenaway, whose CV includes The Draughtsman’s Contract and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, believes the laptop generation is no longer content going to a dark place for up to two hours and watching a movie. He has even pinned down the date when he says cinema died – September 31, 1983 [...]
Posted in Famous Directors, Filmmaking Tips on Sep 21st, 2009
“In his own words: Quentin Tarantino spills filmmaking secrets.” Read this article from MSN Entertainment. ———- Sign up now for your own FREE monthly subscription to “The Director’s Chair” filmmaking ezine and get: (1) Day One of my 201 page mutli-media Online film directing audio course, “The Art and Craft of the Director Audio Seminar” [...]
Posted in Famous Directors on Sep 6th, 2009
“The story of Roberto Rossellini is a very Italian story, encompassing Italy in change from the Fascist period and, reaching beyond his lived life, until 2009. Though Europe is not Europe without Italy, Rossellini’s story, in the strictest sense, is a very Italian story; not an European story. For Italy, separated from the rest of [...]
Posted in Famous Directors on Jul 29th, 2009
“James Cameron reminded us today at Comic-Con that he’s the same twisted guy who wrote Terminator. Back from his deep-sea expedition documentaries, Cameron talked about his upcoming film Avatar, a 3D epic that could be the sci-fi auteur’s answer to Star Wars, albeit with the level of darkness his fans have grown accustomed to.” Read [...]
Posted in Famous Directors on Jul 28th, 2009
“Peter Jackson has a storm trooper costume that he could have worn. James Cameron would have preferred to come as Peter Jackson: “I’d sign a lot of autographs and make a lot of deals.” Instead, the two visionary filmmakers spent an hour with each other, and EW executive editor Jeff Giles, at their first ever [...]
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