The Longform Guide to Making Movies
Behind the scenes of Lost Highway
The Duke in His Domain
A profile of Marlon Brando, age 33, holed up in a hotel suite in Kyoto where he was filming Sayonara.
Truman Capote New Yorker Nov 1957 55min
On the Set of Apocalypse Now
It was the middle of the day in the steamy Philippine jungle and the sun was merciless. Director Francis Ford Coppola, dressed in rumpled white Mao pajamas, was slowly making his way upriver in a motor launch.
Maureen Orth Newsweek Jun 1977
David Lynch Keeps His Head
A “fanatical Lynch fan from way back,” David Foster Wallace visits the set of Lost Highway, never actually talks to the director, and writes a profile.
David Foster Wallace Premiere Sep 1996 45min
The Movie Set That Ate Itself
Inside the five-year (and counting) production of the Ilya Khrzhanovsky film Dau.
Michael Idov GQ Nov 2011 15min
They Came. The Sawed.
In Austin in 1973, politicos and hippies could get together and create violent, visionary horror films for $60,000. So they did. The story of how The Texas Chainsaw Massacre got made:
John Bloom Texas Monthly Nov 2004 50min
The Godfather Wars
The battle to make The Godfather pitted director Francis Ford Coppola against producers including Robert Evans, and the production itself against the real-life mob.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Mar 2009 40min
Getting Made The Scorsese Way
An oral history of Goodfellas.
GQ Oct 2010 35min
Madness in Morocco
How Warren Beatty seduced the studios into making the comedy Ishtar, which set the modern bar for cinematic debacles.
Peter Biskind Vanity Fair Feb 2012 35min
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