On the Road: The Aut-O-Rama Twin Drive-In Theatre
Furious 7 may boast an $190 million budget and a billion dollars in worldwide box office receipts, but it’s still essentially a drive-in B-movie sold on car chases and girls, fistfights […]
Steadicam operator Larry McConkey talks his Goodfellas Copacabana shot
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, a film that had such an impact on me as a 12-year-old that – a quarter century later – I still distinctly remember the first time I saw it. It was on HBO and the broadcast began well after midnight yet I stayed up all night to see it through […]
Spring cinematographer and co-director Aaron Moorhead
Spring is the rarest of horror film breeds – a genre effort that would function perfectly well shorn of all its macabre elements. It’s one of the few horror […]
Five Frames with It Follows cinematographer Mike Gioulakis
I recently interviewed It Follows cinematographer Mike Gioulakis for Filmmaker Magazine – a piece you can read here – and had so much good stuff left over that I decided to […]
WolfCop writer/director Lowell Dean
When David Cronenberg’s 1975 horror film They Came From Within hit screens – partially funded with taxpayer dollars by the Canadian Film Development Corporation – a Canadian national magazine famously featured […]
More than 100 French VHS horror covers
The term “Grand Guignol” – slathered as a descriptor onto genre films which delight in over-the-top gruesomeness – originated at the turn of the 20th century at a Paris theatre famed […]
Predestination costume designer Wendy Cork
If one were to imagine a “degree of difficulty” scale for costume designers, on one end of the scale you might find something like a two-character chamber piece set over the […]
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus cinematographer Daniel Patterson
When Da Sweet Blood of Jesus hits limited theatrical release and VOD this Friday, the narrative surrounding the film will largely focus on director Spike Lee as the most prominent […]
