Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. KBE; well, he did say The Gold Rush was the one he wanted to be remembered for.
Well, basically Chaplin hit the wall try to work out the film's inciting incident (how the girl presumes The Tramp is a millionaire) and kept trying out various ideas. Of course when he found the solution (the slam of a car door), it still took six days before Chaplin was satisfied.
Hitchcock: Vertigo Scott: Blade Runner Spielberg: Jaws Nolan: The Prestige Penn: Night Moves Welles: Touch of Evil Woody Allen: Annie Hall Frankenheimer: Seconds
Ray Dennis Steckler - The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies I don't take stock in the whole "guilty pleasures" concept, but if I did, this one would be at the top of my list! I actually saw this on a big screen theater many years ago. True it's kinda awful but also quite entertaining. If you're into cinematography, note that Joseph V. Mascelli, Vilmos Zsigmond and László Kovács all worked on this. (early in their careers) It's even got a scene with the original Angel's Flight in Los Angeles. Nowadays you can watch the whole thing on You tube. A hard decision for me because another flick he did Rat Pfink a Boo Boo is also a favorite jaw-dropper of mine.
Some exciting news. I didn't want to start a new thread for just this one news item, but they are working on a 4k restoration of Rashomon, which will premier on January 6th in a theatrical run: BFI: New 4K Restoration of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon Heading to Cinemas
Charles Laughton Night of the Hunter David Lynch Eraserhead Both are must sees in my opinion, though I think a lot of people don't get Eraserhead
