At the end of "There's Something about Mary" (1998) the characters sing "Build me up, Buttercup" which seems to be fairly unrelated to the film and at the time
I do not understand how the best director awards are determined each year. It seems impossible to assess the method of a movie director unless you are part of t
There are a few movies I can note where their directors also played a role in their films: Orson Welles tended to star in many of his films, but that was during
The title hopefully sums up the question entirely. Brenda Chapman was one of the lead animators on "Lion King" and was to be Pixar's debut female director on "B
According to a number of sources, cruelty to animals is an offence and it is punishable in most countries. But in historical film it's inevitable, because if a
Alfred Hitchcock was a master of mise-en-scène, whereby in film just about every inch of every frame of a film was intentional. Rear Window is one of his
Many of Alfred Hitchcock's films contain a strong female lead. From Grace Kelly's Lisa in Rear Window to Ingrid Bergman's Alicia Huberman in Notorious, these ac
According to numerous sources, The Dark Knight Rises will be the end of the Batman series. I think all the three Batman movies directed by Nol
A total of 9 directors have been used to direct the Game of Thrones TV series till date. I was left wondering as to why use so many directors for a single plot
Given that the production team for House of Cards knew the show would be streamed online as the only distribution method, did the directors and editors consider
Once Batman dives into the ocean with the bomb and "The Bat", and after Bruce Wayne's obituaries are read and Robin discovers what Mr. Wayne left back for him,
I know that some directors insist on having the final cut privilege. But taking it further, have any directors (or studios for that matter, however unlikely it
In 1985 Mark Romanek (director of such videos as Nine Inch Nail's "Closer" and Fiona Apple's "Criminal") made an independent film named Static. He did not direc
I've read that while the writer/screenwriter creates the story, it's the director's vision that makes the motion picture. So, whose picture is it, anyway?
In a normal movie a director would setup shots the way they wanted and direct the actors in such a way that ideally it would clearly have a certain imprint of t
This is something very common, that we all have been seeing since as long as we can remember. This question stemmed from my recent re-watching of Django Unchain
I've heard that he helped with some space-videos with NASA.
While having an interest for movies, but more concise, good movies, you hear about different actors, producers, directors, filmmakers etc, but
If everything is laid out in a script, then what is the use of director in a movie?
Recently, both the Wachowski directors declared themselves transgender. So we went from the Wachowski Brothers to the Wachowski Siblings, and now the Wachowski