In this short film, Prine spends a typical afternoon driving around Nashville while talking about his journey from midwestern mailman to career songwriter. He plays an emotional version of “Summer’s End,” from The Tree of Forgiveness, his first album in…
Allen Hughes on Creating His Masterful ‘THE DEFIANT ONES’
By Carita Rizzo Spending four years on the project, the documentary filmmaker juggled tensions between the moguls and urged them to open up about their pasts: “What we agreed to is, ‘You don’t have to love everything [in the film],…
Night at the Mirage
The story of The Mirage, the famous undercover Chicago Sun bar, as told by two reporters posing as bartenders. Pam Zekman currently works as an investigative reporter for CBS 2 Chicago. You can find Zay Smith’s book about The Mirage,…
Director’s Dream Tom Cruise Acts During Skydive Free Fall
Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt, and the actor is still doing his own stunts. In this scene, Mr. Cruise completes a stunt where he leaps from a plane at 25,000 feet while a skydiving camera operator follows his every…
‘FIRST KILL’: VIETNAM AND WHAT WAR IS REALLY LIKE
A Dutch documentary from 2001 that features author Michael Herr, best known for “Dispatches” his 1977 book about the Vietnam War. Directed by Coco Schrijber and produced by Lemming Film, “First Kill” is revealing. It tells the glories and the…
Documentary Director Matt Tyrnauer on ‘Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood’
Gore Vidal played a key role behind the scenes in helping Scotty Bowers tell his secret history of Hollywood. Starting in the 1940s, Scotty operated an infamous gas station in Hollywood where he would arrange sexual trysts for celebrities who…