Vivian Kubrick’s extraordinary 35-minute documentary about the making of her father’s film, The Shining, has many wonderful moments: – her dad setting up a low-angle shot on Nicholson – or his correcting Duvall’s performance, – or the great Garrett Brown doing a Steadicam shot. A rare document by someone with almost total access to a [...]
Blake Edwards throws a pie at Natalie Wood. The great comedic director targets his actress on the set of The Great Race in 1964, as a cream-faced Jack Lemmon looks on. Edwards and Wood reportedly did not get on well during the shoot, so this may have been a cathartic moment for both. Photo by [...]
“The whole job of the director is to create an atmosphere of complete security around the actor” (part 3) In this 6-part, hour-long 1971 conversation with Dick Cavett, the genius filmmaker talks about: his childhood (part 1), leaving home at 18, seeing his first movie “Black Beauty” (part 2), working with actors, his debt to [...]
