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A gardener, a television screen and a walk across the water

A one week script, a two hour forty five minute first cut

A thesis film held back by its soundtrack

Banned, Then Cleared: The Tin Drum's Fight With Censors

Budget discipline and a near cast revolt behind M*A*S*H

Casting the horses of The Black Stallion

Cleese as a polymath of British comedy

Dead Man: Blake's poetry, borrowed names and the character of Nobody

Fairy tale and horror as political argument

Five years as an assistant director: how Kurosawa learned the whole of filmmaking

Forgotten Silver: the film pioneer who never existed

From a film school thesis to a slow-burning cult favorite

From a real gallery text to a fictional museum: how The Square was assembled from true incidents

From a schoolteacher script to a shared Palme d'Or: the making of Blue Is the Warmest Colour

From a ski area to an independent film institution

From a stage company to Shakespeare on film: how Kenneth Branagh built his screen Shakespeare

From Bruce Lee imitation to stunt comedy: how Jackie Chan found his style

From Chekhov and Dostoevsky to Cappadocia: the literary sources of Winter Sleep

From Editing Stage to Marketing Label

From Eraserhead to Dune: how David Lynch moved between independence and studio control

From graphic designer to Die Hard villain, and the long effort to outgrow the label

From joke writer to auteur: how Woody Allen built his films

From producer to director: the films of Richard Attenborough

From recording control to directing Yentl

From rights limbo to Marvel's first self-financed film

From star to director: Mel Gibson and films in period languages

From title cards to The Lodger: Hitchcock's apprenticeship

From YouTube shorts to an HBO deal

Gone with the Wind carries one director's name for three directors' work

How a 1.8 million dollar budget shaped Carrie

How a child actor traded his way into directing

How a first-time co-production built Babylon Berlin and aimed it at 1933

How a limited release is judged by its per-screen average

How a lost workprint reshaped the Blade Runner cuts

How a Palme d'Or Winner Missed the Oscar Shortlist

How a sitcom star reshaped M*A*S*H from inside

How a Six-Hour Television Cut Cost The Best Intentions Its Oscar Bid

How a Stallone action script became an Eddie Murphy comedy

How Bob Fosse turned his own heart attack into All That Jazz

How Christopher Nolan kept practical effects at the center of the modern blockbuster

How Deliverance was made: a rewritten script, real stunts and a banjo lawsuit

How Grease changed on the way from stage to screen

How Inception built a corridor that turned a full circle

How Jonathan McIntosh's video essay named a science fiction pattern

How Lucas Got Star Wars Made Before It Became a Franchise

How Malpaso and Warner Bros. Gave Clint Eastwood Control of His Films

How mockbusters became a home video niche

How Netflix moved from mailed discs to whole seasons at once

How Newhart and Wayans measured Richard Pryor's influence

How radio gave Orson Welles his film career

How Radio Invented the Anthology Series

How Roman Polanski found a film industry that would back him

How The Birth of a Nation's Technical Landmark Status Collided With Organized Protest

How the double feature ended the commercial short

How Warren Beatty took control of his films

Jodie Foster behind the camera: Little Man Tate, Egg Pictures and a second career in directing

Kevin Costner and the director's gamble

Made in Secret, Without a Permit

Natural light, magic hour and a shared camera credit

One essay for five students: how The Breakfast Club answers its own assignment

One film in three frame shapes

Point Blank: a dream, a ghost and a scene rewritten in rehearsal

Protection, empowerment and critique: the traditions inside media literacy

Ruffalo and the research behind his portraits of real people

Sean Penn as a director: from The Indian Runner to Into the Wild

Shooting in IMAX and the rule it inspired

The cast Bob Fosse inherited, and the cast he chose himself

The Casting Gamble Behind L.A. Confidential's Two Unknown Leads

The Debate Held Inside CBS's Own Chicago Studio

The final girl debate: progress or containment

The press baron who tried to bury Citizen Kane

The rabbit Walt Disney lost and the mouse that followed

The Titanium Behind the Title, and How Critics Met Titane

Twin films: when studios avoid the clash

Two sorts of truth: how The Crown defends and answers for its inventions

Two thousand cuts: how Requiem for a Dream was edited and rated

Two ways of filming a musical tragedy

Waiting for the tools: how Cameron paced film technology

What the Bechdel test was never meant to prove

Why Chaplin helped found United Artists to keep control of his films

Budget discipline and a near cast revolt behind MAS*H

How a sitcom star reshaped MAS*H from inside