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The Terry Gilliam Files
In-depth coverage of his films, from MONTY PYTHON to IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS
Liv Ullmann talks directing MISS JULIE (CBS News)
Christian Petzold on PHOENIX: Rising from the ashes of classic film noir (CBS News)
Director Kitty Green on her documentary-cum-cold case expose CASTING JONBENÉT
Director Shimon Dotan on his West Bank documentary THE SETTLERS
Directors on directing in documentary HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT (CBS News)
Stars talk NYMPHOMANIAC director Lars von Trier (CBS News)
Noah Baumbach on his whimsical FRANCES HA (CBSNews.com)
Nicolas Winding Refn - On violence in his films, including DRIVE; Also, video for CBSNews.com
Angelina Jolie on dramatizing war: IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY (CBSNews.com)
Martin Scorsese - On the set of CAPE FEAR
David Michod - On his debut feature, the Australian crime drama ANIMAL KINGDOM (CBSNews.com)
Alex Gibney on "We Steal Secrets" and the war on WikiLeaks; lobbyists and the documentary CASINO JACK AND THE UNITED STATES OF MONEY; and the bloodsport of politics and CLIENT 9: THE RISE AND FALL OF ELIOT SPITZER (CBSNews.com)
Woody Allen, on faith, disillusionment and why he hates talking to actors; and on filming in Italy for TO ROME, WITH LOVE (CBSNews.com)
Documentary filmmaker Marina Zenovich on the Roman Polanski case, as captured in her film ROMAN POLANSKI: ODD MAN OUT (CBSNews.com)
Eugene Jarecki on his HBO Documentary REAGAN (CBSNews.com)
Irwin Winkler - On shooting the noir NIGHT AND THE CITY
Robert De Niro - On his directorial debut, A BRONX TALE
Carroll Ballard - On the Newport, R.I. set of WIND
Dick Maas - On shooting a Dutch comedy in N.Y.C.
Fran Rubel Kuzui - On her roles as independent distributor and director (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER)
Abel Ferrara - On his morality tale, BAD LIEUTENANT

BRAZIL Script Development: An analysis of screenplays and treatments for the Terry Gilliam film created by Gilliam, Charles Alverson, Charles McKeown and Tom Stoppard
Richard LaGravenese
On penning a true original, THE FISHER KING
Chazz Palminteri
On rewriting his life for stage and screen in A BRONX TALE
Richard Price
On not staying true to filmic convention in NIGHT AND THE CITY
Wesley Strick
On reinventing a true classic, CAPE FEAR

Cinematographer Roger Deakins, finally an Oscar-winner for BLADE RUNNER 2049
Cinematographer Gordon Willis 1931-2014 (CBS News)
American Society of Cinematographers picks the best of 2011 (CBS News.com)
Acclaimed cinematographer Harris Savides dies (CBSNews.com)
Nicola Pecorini
On capturing THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS and the lens they call The Gilliam
Ernest Dickerson
On his collaborations with Spike Lee, including the musical drama MO' BETTER BLUES
Freddie Francis
On the set of CAPE FEAR, the acclaimed director/DP discusses shooting horror from both sides of the camera
Tak Fujimoto
On shooting a film noir in color, for NIGHT AND THE CITY
Stephen Goldblatt
Discusses the hazards of night shoots, makeup and locations, on FOR THE BOYS
John Toll
On shooting the sailing picture WIND on two continents as well as much of the wet stuff in-between

Mick Audsley
On the editorial challenges of making time travel and insanity seem believable and sane! for TWELVE MONKEYS
Sam Pollard
On taking a jazz approach to editing a jazz film, MO' BETTER BLUES
Thelma Schoonmaker
On cutting to the chase with Scorsese on CAPE FEAR
Howard Smith
Discusses differing aesthetics for editing action flicks (POINT BREAK) and character dramas (AT CLOSE RANGE)

Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston and
Ward Kimball
A symposium featuring three of Walt Disney"s "Nine Old Men" discussing character animation and the making of the classic PINOCCHIO

10 essential film scores by Ennio Morricone (CBS News)

Alex Somers mines musical gold for documentary DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME (CBS News)
The classic film scores of John Williams - Slideshow with audio clips of the composer"s best work (CBS News)
The 10 best James Bond theme songs (CBS News)
Bernard Herrmann at 100 - Slideshow with audio samples of the composer who changed how we hear movies, examining his career at CBS Radio, in Hollywood and on television (CBS News)
Elmer Bernstein
Middle Earth Comes to Radio City - Rehearsals for 2010 TWO TOWERS performance, with video; also, Howard Shore discusses 2009 FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING concert and the contribution of language to the LOTR scores, as members of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus practice Elvish lyrics; with video (CBSNews.com)
A report from the recording stages of CAPE FEAR, as well as an in-depth discussion on Bernstein's adaptation of Bernard Herrmann's music from the original 1962 version
Michael Kamen
Talks about his "maximal" music (as opposed to minimalist music) for THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN
Excerpts from KNOWING THE SCORE
Philip Glass, Carter Burwell, Jerry Goldsmith and others on composing for film

"We Are One" presents a free global film festival online (CBS News)
"2001: A Space Odyssey" returns to theatres in 70mm (CBS News)
First Bond Girl Eunice Gayson dies at 90 (CBS News)
Oscars 2018: Best Actress nominees; Best Actor nominees; Best Supporting Actress nominees; Best Supporting Actor nominees; Best Original Score nominees; and Best Original Song nominees
20 Best Films of 2017
And the year's best movie poster is ... (2014) (CBS News)
Oldest surviving film of black actors found (CBS News)
Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp turns 100 (CBS News)
Watch Oscar-nominated documentaries online (CBS News)
GRAVITY, AMERICAN HUSTLE lead Oscar race with 10 nominations each (CBS News)
Academy rescinds Best Song nomination for ALONE YET NOT ALONE (CBS News)
Landmarks in Dolby Stereo films (CBSNews.com)
Gallery: The future that never was (CBS News)
Gallery: Breakfast cereal mascots (CBS News)
N.Y. film critics pick ZERO DARK THIRTY as year's best (CBSNews.com)
AMOUR, THE MASTER top L.A. film critics awards (CBSNews.com)
Reviews and Q&As from the 50th N.Y. Film Festival: FILL THE VOID, ROOM 237, BARBARA, LIV & INGMAR, HYDE PARK ON HUDSON, THE BAY and AMOUR (CBSNews.com)
VERTIGO tops CITIZEN KANE in BFI's critics' poll of greatest films (CBSNews.com)
A video snapshot of the Tribeca Film Festival's outdoor screening of JAWS (CBSNews.com)
Dolly Parton, Donna Summer & Edward R. Murrow join the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry (CBSNews.com)
HUGO, THE ARTIST leads 2011 Oscar race (CBSNews.com)
"STAR WARS Fans' 15 seconds of fame" - A look at the Emmy Award-winning starwarsuncut.com, where fans recreate the classic film in very tiny bits (Video for CBSNews.com)

Market Research
The results of two 1988 market research test screenings of BARON MUNCHAUSEN, from people recruited in shopping malls in New Jersey and Long Island
Publicity
A look at what issues drove the development of studio publicity for MUNCHAUSEN, a film about someone that no one in the United States had ever heard of
Litigation
Would a multi-million extravaganza be a target of lawsuits even if it didn't make money? You betcha
Links
Notable film-related Web sites

Barbara De Fina
On CAPE FEAR and
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
Lynda Obst and Debra Hill
On taming the "wild beast" of THE FISHER KING
Charles Roven
Remakes a cult sci-fi short as TWELVE MONKEYS
Lauren Geels
On the difficulty of shooting a foreign film in the streets of Manhattan

Nina Hoss on "Phoenix" - Rising from the ashes of classic film noir (CBS News)
Harvey Keitel bares his soul as he talks about work, art, family and bamboo
Nicole Kidman on her smoldering role in THE PAPERBOY
Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges face the challenge of playing dramatic comedy, from the set of THE FISHER KING
Nick Nolte in cracking a lawyer's prideful persona in CAPE FEAR
Eric Idle on the "rewards" of appearing in fellow Python Terry Gilliam's MUNCHAUSEN
Oscar nominees' one degree of separation

OSCARS 2014: Interviews with costume design nominees
Ruth Carter
Discusses merging the past with the contemporary for MO' BETTER BLUES
Beatrix Pasztor, Vincent Jefferds and Keith Greco
Discuss the design and construction of the hellish, ethereal Red Knight from THE FISHER KING

Colin Cantwell, designer of "Star Wars" spaceships and Death Star, dies at 90 (CBSNews.com)
Arthur Max on designing the future of Ridley Scott's PROMETHEUS; Also, a photo gallery (CBSNews.com)
A look back at the career of STAR WARS concept artist RALPH McQUARRIE, along with a gallery of his STAR WARS art (CBSNews.com)
Norman Garwood
On capturing a "BRAZIL Look"
Jeffrey Beecroft
On creating a false future in TWELVE MONKEYS
Anastasia Masaro
On constructing alternate realities within THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS
Robin Standefer
On uncovering the truth of 1870s New York architecture (as well as faking it) for THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
Patricia Anne Doherty
On finding locations for the period piece THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
"Quiet on the Streets"
A 1989 article on location filming in New York City, featuring interviews with production designer Wynn Thomas (DO THE RIGHT THING), and location managers David de Clerque and Nick Bernstein (A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM, CADILLAC MAN)
Wynn Thomas
On designing and building the sets for Spike Lee's MO' BETTER BLUES and the epic biography MALCOLM X

10 films shortlisted for visual FX Oscar (CBSNews.com)
"Blood on Their Hands"
Interviews with THE GODFATHER TRILOGY'S A.D. Flowers, Joe Lombardi, Dick Smith, Lawrence Cavanaugh and R. Bruce Steinheimer
"Oscar honors makeup master Dick Smith"
Photo gallery retrospective of artist's career, from LITTLE BIG MAN and THE EXORCIST to AMADEUS, including interview excerpts (CBSNews.com)
"No Visible Means of Support"
CLIFFHANGER's effects supervisor Neal Krepela reveals how a twelve-inch doll stood in for Sylvester Stallone, among other miracles
JURASSIC PARK
Dennis Murren and Mark Dippe of ILM, Phil Tippett and Stan Winston on conjuring the revolutionary visual effects
"Building a Better Rome"
An interview with GLADIATOR's visual effects supervisor John Nelson (archive cache of ABCNews.com article)
"Making Waves"
An interview with THE PERFECT STORM's visual effects supervisor Stefan Fangmeier (archive cache of ABCNews.com article)

Crowdfunding request: Rescue Orson Welles' last film (CBS News)
Oldest surviving film of black actors found (CBS News)
Robert Harris
Reminisces on the blood, sweat and tears of re-creating LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and SPARTACUS
"LOST HORIZON ... Found"
Tells the story of the restoration of Frank Capra's classic fable of Utopia
"The Sounds of a Galaxy Far, Far Away"
Explores the original 1977 70mm release of STAR WARS, whose soundtrack differs in slight ways from later incarnations; updated with the 1980 70mm audio of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

2024 Sundance Film Festival: Curtain-raiser, opening highlights, and more highlights (CBS News)
2024 Oscars: Nomination snubs & surprises; Behind the scenes of the nominees, for best actor, best supporting actor, best actress, best supporting actress, and best picture (CBS News)
"Terminator 2: Judgment Day," "Apollo 13," "Home Alone" among movies named to National Film Registry (CBS News)
2023 Human Rights Watch Film Festival (CBS News)
2023 New York Film Festival: Curtain-raiser and more highlights (CBS News)
Grammy Awards inaugurates new category for best score for video games (CBS News)
2023 DOC NYC documentary film festival (CBS News)
2023 Tribeca Festival: Curtain-raiser and more highlights
2023 Oscars: Behind the scenes of the nominees, for best actor, best supporting actor, best actress, best supporting actress, and best picture (CBS News)
2023 Sundance Film Festival highlights and capsule reviews Part 1, and Part 2 (CBS News)

Surprises abound in 2022 Sight and Sound critics' poll of greatest films ever made (CBS News)
"Iron Man," "The Little Mermaid," "When Harry Met Sally" among movies named to National Film Registry (CBS News)
2022 DOC NYC documentary film festival highlights (CBS News)
60th New York Film Festival preview and capsule reviews Part 1 and Part 2 (CBS News)
2022 Tribeca Festival highlights and capsule reviews Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 (CBS News)
2022 Human Rights Watch Film Festival (CBS News)
2022 Sundance Film Festival highlights and capsule reviews Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 (CBS News)

The 10 best films of 2021 (CBS News)
2021 additions to the National Film Registry (CBS News)
59th New York Film Festival highlights and capsule reviews Part 1, including MACBETH, Part 2, including THE POWER OF THE DOG, Part 3, including DUNE (CBS News)
2021 DOC NYC documentary film festival (CBS News)
2021 Tribeca Festival highlights and capsule reviews Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 (CBS News)
2021 Human Rights Watch Film Festival (CBS News)
2021 Sundance Film Festival preview, and highlights and capsule reviews Part 1 and Part 2 (CBS News)

58th New York Film Festival preview article (CBS News)
"We Are One" presents a free global film festival online (CBS News)

The 10 best films of 2019 (CBS News)
"STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (CBS News)
57th New York Film Festival preview article and reviews: THE IRISHMAN; JOKER; PAIN AND GLORY; FIRST COW.
IF A DANCER DANCES, on recreating a Merce Cunningham masterwork (CBS News)
15 highlights at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival in NYC (CBS News)
Terry Gilliam finally wrestles THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE to the screen (CBS News)
THE BRINK, on Steve Bannon and the bloodsport of politics (CBS News)
2019 DOC NYC documentary film festival: Real life, both light and dark (CBS News)
Oscar snubs & surprises: Emily Blunt, Michael B. Jordan miss out on Academy Award nominations (CBS News)
Monty Python's Terry Jones: An appreciation of a comic zealot (CBS News)
PURPLE RAIN, PLATOON, AMADEUS among latest additions to National Film Registry (CBS News)
Jay-Z, Cyndi Lauper, "Schoolhouse Rock" added to National Recording Registry (CBS News)
56th New York Film Festival reviews: COLD WAR; THE FAVOURITE; BURNING; 3 FACES; TRANSIT; A FAMILY TOUR; WILDLIFE; THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS; MONROVIA, INDIANA;
The 10 best films of 2018 (CBS News)
Other Reviews for CBS NEWS MADELINE'S MADELINE; THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST; THE CAPTAIN; SUMMER 1993; THE DEATH OF STALIN; A WOMAN'S LIFE; LEANING INTO THE WIND – ANDY GOLDSWORTHY; STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI; AMANDA KNOX; JULIAN SCHNABEL: A PRIVATE PORTRAIT; HUMAN FLOW; KARL MARX CITY; LADY MACBETH; MARY SHELLEY; TROPHY; BOBBI JENE; THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT; ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY; DENNIS HOPPER: ALONG FOR THE RIDE; ELSTREE 1976; NO MAN'S LAND and TRUE CONVICTION; COMMAND AND CONTROL; and STEVE JOBS: THE MAN IN THE MACHINE
55th New York Film Festival reviews: BEFORE WE VANISH; BPM; CALL ME BY YOUR NAME; JOAN DIDION: THE CENTER WILL NOT HOLD; LADY BIRD; LAST FLAG FLYING; THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES; THE RIDER; SPOOR; WESTERN; and WONDER WHEEL
54th New York Film Festival reviews: 13th; ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL; AFTER THE STORM; CERTAIN WOMEN; DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME; I, DANIEL BLAKE; JULIETA; MANCHESTER BY THE SEA; MOONLIGHT; NERUDA; PATERSON; PERSONAL SHOPPER; and WESTERN
Audio Gallery: Additions to the National Recording Registry (2016) (CBS News)
The best films of 2015 (CBS News)
Watch: 15 great movie trailers (CBS News)
"Shawshank Redemption," "Ghostbusters" added to National Film Registry (2015) (CBS News)
Gallery: The Orson Welles centenary (CBS News)
"Saving Private Ryan," "Big Lebowski" join 2014 National Film Registry (CBS News)
"Please, Armond White, Make It Stop!" - A plea for sanity - or at least for the New York Press film critic to go more than two weeks without mentioning Steven Spielberg in a review of somebody else's work
"The Legacy of 2001" - How closely did Kubrick's vision of technology match the real thing? (Archive cache of ABCNews.com)
"Autumn Chills" - Classic horror films (ABCNews.com)
"What's Running in Cupid's Video Player?" - Classic romances (Archive cache of ABCNews.com)
National Film Registry 2001 Additions - (Archive cache of ABCNews.com article)
"Re-Viewing Vietnam" - Veterans in BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, JACKKNIFE, IN COUNTRY and LETHAL WEAPON
"NotSoGoodFellas" - The fall of the Mob Family and the Rise of the Rat
"A New Breed of Science Fiction Heroes" - Parallels between THE ROAD WARRIOR/BLADE RUNNER and westerns/detective films
"Nowhere to Hide" - An examination of the "lawyer mask" and its consequences, from CAPE FEAR

News
Watch 2013 Oscar-nominated documentaries online (CBS News)
Oscars 2014: In Memoriam tribute honors Hoffman, skips Monteith (CBS News)
GRAVITY, AMERICAN HUSTLE lead Oscar race with 10 nominations each (CBS News)

53rd New York Film Festival reviews: ARABIAN NIGHTS; BRIDGE OF SPIES; BROOKLYN; CAROL; DE PALMA; THE FORBIDDEN ROOM; HEART OF A DOG; JOURNEY TO THE SHORE and CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR; STEVE JOBS; THE WALK; WHERE TO INVADE NEXT; and THE WITNESS (CBS News)

52nd New York Film Festival reviews:

'71; BELOVED SISTERS; BIRDMAN; THE BLUE ROOM; CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA; EDEN; FOXCATCHER; GONE GIRL; HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT; INHERENT VICE; JAUJA; MAPS TO THE STARS; MERCHANTS OF DOUBT; MR. TURNER; PASOLINI; TIMBUKTU; TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT; and THE WONDERS

51st New York Film Festival reviews and news:

HER; THE INVISIBLE WOMAN; ALL IS LOST; ABUSE OF WEAKNESS; 12 YEARS A SLAVE; THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY; LA JALOUSIE (JEALOUSY); CAPTAIN PHILLIPS; LE WEEK-END; INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS; THE SQUARE/THE MISSING PICTURE; WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST, OR METABOLISM

50th New York Film Festival reviews and news:

FILL THE VOID; ROOM 237; THE PAPERBOY; BARBARA; LIV & INGMAR/FINAL CUT: LADIES & GENTLEMEN; FRANCES HA; HYDE PARK ON HUDSON; ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED; THE BAY

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