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What's the best "behind the scenes" or filming making documentaries (apart from "Heart of Darkness")
  • azza_actazza_act

    Wondering what's out there on the web or DVD/BD special features. In all aspects of filming making. Cheers

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  • AlbertZAlbertZ

    other interesting BTS / making of:

    • The Making of "Rosemary's Baby", short doc but very useful

    • Jodorowsky's Dune: a 2014 doc about Jodorowsky's unfinished project, showing the preproduction of this legendary film

    And now a bit of Italian Cinema:

    • "Zoom su Federico Fellini" di Sergio Zavoli.1965 (44 minutes) This doc in particular is impressive, a rare black and white material showing Fellini directing his film "Juliets of the Spirits". Hard to find with English subtitles...

    • Fellini towards the Moon by Eugenio Cappuccio, : It is the making of Fellini's last film "The voice of the moon". It is freely available on vimeo on Eugenio Cappuccio's account, you can watch here, Cappuccio has realized a wonderful doc for the Fellinian community in the world

  • matthewcarrmatthewcarr

    @Macalincag Thanks for that!

  • MacalincagMacalincag

    That Moment: Magnolia Diary

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5051914606876826421

  • MacalincagMacalincag

    @johnbrawley

    American Movie

    This one's great and very entertaining to say the least.

    There was also a good film that Kubricks wife made on The Shining. Can't recall the name but that was also very good.

    Vivian Kubrick's Making 'The Shining'

  • johnbrawleyjohnbrawley

    Not really making of's...more doco's on filmmaking specifically....

    American Movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181288/

    Demon Lover Diary (brilliant) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206681/

    Making Venus (Australian and very good) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325774/

    One of the best films i've seen about the CREATIVE process as opposed to the mechanical logistical is Lars Von Triers "The 5 Obstructions" - Incredibly inspiring. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354575/

    There was also a good film that Kubricks wife made on The Shining. Can't recall the name but that was also very good.

    The problem I have with a lot of "Making of"s on special features is they are usually re-packaged EPK stuff and that's fine, but you never see them overcoming REAL LIFE problems.

    jb

  • GabelGabel

    Jaws has a really nice Behind the Scenes on the DVD that captured quite a bit of the problems during production. Spielberg talks a lot about the problems he had to deal with, but of course, it all ended well. The Alien films also had some really nice ones, the highlight is probably Alien 3 (even if Fincher is missing) because it really gives you an idea of the problems during the film. "Dangerous Days" from Blade Runner is also worth checking out. All of these are helped by Spielberg and Ridley Scott being very interesting to listen to.

    Of course, not all good behind the scenes are on hard shoots. Jurassic Park linked above is great and some of the BTS is pretty good. I also really liked the ones on the Bond DVDs, while a bit short it's really fun to see how managed to accomplish stunts that are out of this world and making sets that (literally) were larger than life.

  • mlysbakkenmlysbakken

    @jobilo Amen for "Burden of Dreams"! In my opinion more exciting to watch than "Fitzcarraldo" itself!

  • jobilojobilo

    "Burden of dreams" from Les Blank, the documentary of the shooting of Werner Herzog's "Fitzcarraldo". I think it's absolutely necessary to (re)watch "Fitzcarraldo" and then "Burden of Dreams". It's an incredible "mise en abyme": you discover that the fact of making this movie in the amazonian forest echoes so much with the main aim of Fitzcarraldo: making an opera in the jungle.... Absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!!!!! Both of them!!!!!!!!!!!!

    "Burden of dreams": http://www.imdb.fr/title/tt0083702/ "Fitzcarraldo": http://www.imdb.fr/title/tt0083946/

  • last_SHIFTlast_SHIFT

    'Beunos Aires Zero Degrees' is the the making of Wong Kar Wai's Happy Together. An intersting look into how the movie shaped. I highly recommend.

  • redpawredpaw

    @Macalincag - yeap, that's the one :)

  • janisjanis

    I liked "Stanley Kubrick's Boxes". Gave the perspective on how much work has to be put in to achieve something.

  • nothingnothing

    "Overnight"

  • jeffharrigerjeffharriger

    "That Moment" on the Magnolia DVD/Blu ray. "The Making of Do The Right" by St. Clair Bourne I know is on the Criterion edition, not sure about the Blu rays. "The Making of Fanny & Alexander" - Criterion again. Yeah, Kubrick saying "hunks of hair..." on Viv's Shining behind the scenes is always good for a laugh.

  • AlbertZAlbertZ

    Fellini's making of... "ciao Federico" Making of Fellini's Satyricon Making of "the city of Women" by ferruccio castronuovo (8 1/2 French Edition BluRay)

  • AlbertZAlbertZ

    On vimeo you can find great making of "Brand Upon the Brain!" and other good stuff by the Canadian director Guy Maddin!

  • robmneilsonrobmneilson

    +1 for AK and the Shining doc. Love Burden of Dreams as well!

  • bostonmikebostonmike

    Amelie, Seven, American Beauty, The Machinist, Harsh Times, Saturday Night Fever, French Connection, To Live and Die in LA, Shawshank Redemption, Taxi Driver, Bullitt, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Dog Day Afternoon, Gomorra, Sideways,The Shining, Deliverance,.....some of my favorite commentary tracks.....the Director of Saturday Night Fever said that they were in a bind time-wise and financially to decorate the disco "2001", so in a pinch they ran out and got boxes of aluminum foil and basically just draped the walls in it...it came out awesome...these are the little things I love about commentary tracks....or in Shawshank Redemption, where they had a character get carried off into a vintage ambulance..only the ambulance broke down, so they had to push it and then let it roll a bit to look like it was driving away. Even the big-budget filmmakers have to wing it sometimes..

    Yes Jleo, LOTR 'making of' is really cool too.

  • MacalincagMacalincag

    @redpaw

    Yeah, I think you're referring to "Full Tilt Boogie".

  • elementalracerelementalracer

    This.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i99TpYtFvgc

  • soundgh2soundgh2

    +1 for The Shining - my favourite BTS love the bit showing him blasting them with music in the maze scene to keep the actors on edge

  • hunterhunter

    The BtS for The Shining is good -- filmed by Kubrick's daughter, you get to see Kubrick work, Nicholson goof off, and it becomes pretty apparent that everyone is annoyed by Shelley Duvall.

  • RRRRRRRR

    Check out Chris Marker's A.K. If you haven't already.. Great little film in it's own right, behind the scenes during the making of "Ran".

  • redpawredpaw

    I liked the doc on From Dusk Till Dawn special 2DVD edition. think it's an hour long. Stripped from all that 'glamour', showing how it really looks on the set and what people do. found it the most accurate

  • johnnymjohnnym

    I learnt most beginner stuff from LOTR behind the scenes DVDs.

  • RobertoRoberto

    Tristram Shandy is remarkable for its merging of narrative content and actors' behaviour off-camera.

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