January 12, 2005

  •                   Film School in Your Living Room

     Here are some of the best dvd director's commentary to learn all aspects of film making.

     

    1 -   Garry Marshall talking on "Pretty Woman".  - The best 

           concerning all realistic info on getting the story on

          the screen.  You'll learn that no matter what the budget, there is

          never enough time or money to film all that you want.

     

    2 -   Sydney Pollack - "The Way We Were" - Making deals,  working with actors, story editing, solving production problems.  Includes a documentary with Pollack and Barbara Striesand.

     

    3 -   Richard Fleischer - "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". The 2 hour documentary on the special edition will inspire you do make something worthwhile. You hear stories from the director and crew who put all they had into this movie.  And about Disney who risked his studio and livelyhood to make the most expensive movie of it's time.

     

    4 -    Francis Ford Coppola talks on all three Godfathers in the new box set.  There's another disc full of proction details.  Coppola talks about casting, studio problems, film technique, and more importantly the life of an artist.  A must for serious fimmakers.

     

    5 -   John Frankenheimer talks about camera lenses, getting production value, working with actors, and the life of a serious film maker on this masterpiece of film making.  In fact, see any dvd that has Frankenheimer's commentary.