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Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, over 50 years of collaboration.
Few director–actor partnerships have given cinema this much. Beginning with Mean Streets in 1973, Scorsese and De Niro have made 10 feature films together!
Fifty years of trust between an actor and director, and some of the greatest films ever came out of it. by @cinneman

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For a filmmaker, final cut is everything. It’s the difference between simply directing the material and having the final say over the film audiences actually see. Few directors understood the value of that control better than David Lynch. by @cinneman

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One of my favourite stories about Hitchcock. While developing Notorious with screenwriter Ben Hecht, he decided that the Nazi plot would revolve around uranium ore hidden inside wine bottles, at a time when the atomic bomb was still a closely guarded secret.

Hitchcock and Hecht even consulted Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Millikan while researching the idea.
And in classic Hitchcock fashion, all that intrigue was ultimately just the MacGuffin (plot device)! by @cinneman

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Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name broke a lot of the traditional rules of the Western hero! He wasn’t interested in a fair fight, and if shooting someone in the back was the practical thing to do, he did it.

That was part of what made Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy feel so different. Eastwood’s character wasn’t the clean-cut gunslinger waiting politely for his opponent to draw, he was calculating, morally ambiguous and interested in surviving above all else.

A very different kind of Western hero was taking shape. by @cinneman

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Christopher Lee was Ian Fleming’s cousin and a close friend, and the two regularly played golf together at Royal St George’s.
Fleming actually wanted Lee to play Dr. No in the first Bond film, but by the time the suggestion reached the producers, Joseph Wiseman had already been cast.
Twelve years later, Lee finally entered Fleming’s world as Francisco Scaramanga opposite Roger Moore in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), playing one of Bond’s most memorable villains. by @cinneman

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While promoting "Death Hunt" (1981), Bronson and Marvin got talking about the actors they had worked with early in their careers, including Spencer Tracy and Gary Cooper. Both had actually started out in small roles alongside Cooper in "You’re in the Navy Now" (1951)! by @cinneman

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I’m completely with Willem Dafoe on this. Calling heightened acting “over the top” can be a little ridiculous, as if naturalism is somehow the only legitimate way to give a great performance. Acting has never been limited to simply behaving as subtly as possible.
It’s one of the reasons I’m such a fan of Dafoe, and of actors like Nicolas Cage. They’re willing to use expressionism, theatricality, physicality, different techniques that push beyond naturalism when the material calls for it. Sometimes a performance should be strange, operatic or larger than regular life, the real question is whether it works within the world of the film. And as Eggers points out in this conversation, giving Slavoj Žižek as an example, real people can behave in ways that, if an actor reproduced them exactly, might be criticised as an absurd acting choice. Human behaviour isn’t always subtle or naturalistic! by @cinneman

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Jokes aside, casting Michael Keaton as Batman was a genuinely bold choice at the time. He was known largely for comedy, didn’t have the imposing physical presence people associated with the character, and the announcement caused enormous backlash from fans. But Burton wasn’t looking for the most obvious action-hero type, he wanted someone who could make Bruce Wayne feel strange, complicated and slightly unpredictable.

Keaton isn’t my favourite Batman, largely because I could never completely buy his physicality as the character, but for Burton’s version of Gotham he was an inspired choice. He understood the tone, brought something genuinely unusual to Bruce Wayne, and proved just how wrong the initial reaction to his casting could be. by @cinneman

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Vincent Price somehow managed to become one of the most memorable voices on the biggest-selling album of all time - without exactly getting the deal of a lifetime!
Price chose a $20,000 flat fee over a percentage of Thriller’s proceeds. A perfectly respectable payday… until the album started selling by the tens of millions. by @cinneman

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I love this show, and Mads’ version of Hannibal is a huge reason why. He made the character elegant, controlled, strange, funny in places, and never in Anthony Hopkins’ shadow. Watching him here, even between takes, you can see how naturally he settled into it - it’s very interesting to see him on the set! I still wish we’d gotten another season. by @cinneman

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One of the reasons The Exorcist remains such an extraordinary film is how seriously William Friedkin took the subject. The film was adapted from William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel, itself inspired by a reported 1949 exorcism, and Friedkin carried that search for authenticity into the production.

He went incredibly deep into the reality of exorcism, speaking with priests, studying reported cases and trying to understand where psychology and conventional explanations ended and the unexplained began.

You can feel that research throughout the film. Friedkin never treats the material like a simple horror story, there’s an almost documentary-like seriousness to it, which makes everything that happens feel that much more disturbing.

More than 50 years later, the film has lost none of its power. by @cinneman

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For me, the best kind of video game adaptation is exactly what Zach Cregger is describing. I don’t necessarily need to see the story of the game recreated beat for beat. Give me a fresh story that exists within that world, while preserving the atmosphere, aesthetic, themes and rules that made the game great in the first place.

That gives a filmmaker room to actually make a film, while still making it feel unmistakably like Resident Evil. There’s a big difference between changing the story and losing the identity of the source material entirely, like Anderson did. by @cinneman

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