Star Trek II - Wrath Of Khan: Visual Effects Featurette

More on the Making of Star Trek here

Blade Runner Convention Reel (1982)

'One of the Blade Runner Convention Reels featuring interviews with Ridley Scott, Syd Mead and Douglas Trumbull about making Blade Runner universe. This 16 mm featurette, made by M. K. Productions in 1982, is specifically designed to circulate through the country's various horror, fantasy and science fiction conventions.'

FONCO: Making Movie Miniatures

This is a great highlight reel for FONCO by the guys over at MAKE.

Also check out MORAV

The Hobbit: Interview with VFX Supervisor Joe Letteri

// Another great interview with Joe Letteri via Collider

 

 

 

Rick Baker receives a Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame

Rick Baker's shop in the 80's

Interview with Moon director Duncan Jones

Also check out

Inside the Moon Model Shop

 

Lincoln Interviews

Lincoln Q&A - Full Interview with Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis

The Hobbit - Full Production Video Blogs 1-9

From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic (1999)

Cinematographer Roger Deakins 'The Man Who Wasn't There'

Cinematographer Roger Deakins talks about shooting the Coen Brothers' The Man Who Wasn't There -- shooting BLK vs Color and Digital

The Man Who Wasn't There (trailer)

Animatronics VFX Showreel by Gustav Hoegen

Making of 'Tremors'

Interview with Skyfall director Sam Mendes

More behind the scenes footage of Skyfall here:

Making of Skyfall

Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro (1992)

Making of 'Pumpkinhead' with commentary by Stan Winston's Creature FX Team

More info over on Stan Winston School website

Tippett Studio Tour (2012)

Check out more pics from MAD GOD over on Tom Gibbons blog

// Gibby's Anim Site

Star Wars Original Trilogy Documentary

In light of the recent developments with Disney purchasing Lucasfilm I figured this would be a fitting post. I just hope Lucasfilm didn't sellout to the Empire... I don't think Disney always follows the path of the Jedi :P


Interesting article over on The Guardian

Star Wars: Why Disney was destined to buy Lucasfilm

Mark Hamill revealed details about Star Wars: Episode VII in 1983 via io9

Making of Iron Man

picture via Jeff Bridges Iron Man Book

Interview with director Terry Gilliam

Here's a great set of interviews with director Terry Gilliam.

One on One with Terry Gilliam

Flight: Interview with director Robert Zemeckis

fxguide visits Bay Area studio Atomic Fiction to discuss the making of Flight

Denzel Washington And Robert Zemeckis Flight Special via EmpireMagPodcast

Predator 25 Year Reunion - Stan Winston's Predator FX Team at Monsterpalooza 2012

Making of Skyfall

Roger Deakins is also the DP on this show. He talks about his work on the film here.


Also check out this article:

Roger Deakins on Shooting 'Skyfall' Like a Western, Not an Action Movie

'RoboCop' interview with Peter Weller (1987)

ROBOCOP 25th Anniversary Q&A

Interview with director Baz Luhrmann

Tron Legacy: Interview with VFX Sup Eric Marba and Head of Animation Steve Preeg

Making 'The Empire Strikes Back' (Dutch Doc 1980)

This was a great find! Check out the details over on /film

On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' (2000)

'Sense of Scale' documentary now available on DVD

Berton Pierce's film 'Sence of Scale' is now on DVD! More details on this vid and others over on Fon Davis's site FONCO


 

AVATAR: Interviews with Joe Letteri, John Landau, Stephan Lang and Zoe Saldana

Brad Bird discusses Dr. Strangelove

I had the pleasure of attending this screening and Q&A at the San Rafael theatre back in 2009. It's great to see that the CFI posted the video of Brad's talk! Hopefully they'll post more video's of filmmaker's lectures and interviews!

Brad Bird discusses Dr. Strangelove via vimeo

Interview With Howard Berger - Character SFX Artist

More info over on Stan Winston School website

'GHOSTBUSTERS' SFX Featurette (1999)

Ghostbusters (1984) interviews with the crew

Rick Baker on '3-2-1 CONTACT' tv show (1978)

Making of 'Predator' (1987)

The Making of 'Terminator 2'

Longer extended version
The vid is located here if it's not playing properly Making of Terminator 2

Interview With 'Skyfall' DP Roger Deakins

Deakins discusses the transition to digital with the ARRI ALEXA and his current film, Skyfall.

Interview with VFX Supervisor Ken Ralston

/pic from 1981 production of Dragon Slayer/

Tribute To RAY HARRYHAUSEN (Sept 08th)

If I was still in SF I'd already have a ticket for this!

Bay Area Film Events

Tribute To RAY HARRYHAUSEN

Documentary RAY HARRYHAUSEN: SPECIAL EFFECTS TITAN & The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

Saturday, Sep 08, 2012 7:00 PM PDT (6:30 PM Doors)
- Saturday, Sep 08, 2012 11:00 PM PDT
$15 //  Historic Bal Theatre, San Leandro, CA



Producer Tony Dalton will be live from London.  Guests of Honor for this show will be Academy Award Winning special effects artists Dennis Muren of Industrial Light & Magic, and Phil Tippett from Tippett Studios.
More info on Bay Area Film Events

Making of 'The Dark Knight'

Interview with director Tony Scott on 'Unstoppable'

Such a shame about Tony Scott. He was a remarkable filmmaker, visionary and storyteller.  He will be missed.

The Making of 'Top Gun'

The Dark Knight Rises

VFX of 'Dark Knight Rises' via fxguide

Making of 'Anonymous' (2011)

Visual Effects Rebuild London

VFX by Uncharted Territory

Filmmakers of our Time - John Ford Interview (1966)

Entre chien et loup (At Dusk), John Ford - a 'Cinéastes de notre temps' production (1966) 

 

 

NOTE: The interview which is in English starts at the 3:32 mark.

John Ford BBC interview from 1968







Another great interview with Ford here:

// American West Of John Ford

Boris Karloff on 'This Is Your Life' (1957)

Wes Anderson Interview 'Moonrise Kingdom'

Super 8mm Footage From ‘Return of the Jedi’

This is some great footage of the Return of the Jedi film set in Buttercup Valley, CA! Funny enough a friend of mine also has some super8 footage from this shoot. Hopefully he'll get around to converting it to digital at some point. I'll keep nagging him heh heh

Seven Minutes of Super 8mm Behind the Scenes Footage From ‘Return of the Jedi’ via /film

and in other news //

Lucas taps Kennedy as co-chair of Lucasfilm