Misc

Once a cinephile has learned all the directors and actors and writers, well, there’s only one place left to go: Cinematographers. Truthfully, I only started paying close attention to these dudes a few years ago, slowly picking up one new favorite after another. Below you’ll find Ze Catalist’s starter guide for Cinematographer fans. We’ve kinda/sorta [...]

There are countless directors out there, many working this very second, who have absolutely no idea what they’re doing. It’s amazing, if you think about it, that so many artless pricks get by so well on their charisma and connections that they get big studios to hand over millions of dollars for their bullshit projects. [...]

Johnny Depp has become, since the surprise worldwide love for the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, one of the most bankable movie stars of his time. Before that he was a critics darling; before that he was a cult figure; before that he was a teenage heartthrob. Now, with a series of HUGE films under [...]

Yesterday was, as one of our friends and favorite readers pointed out, auteur Paul Thomas Anderson’s 41st birthday. To me, a 31-year-old cinephile who fell hard for PT’s first wide feature, 1997′s Boogie Nights, PT is one of the great artists of his time. In 1995, at the tender age of 25, he filmed his [...]