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“Hello, gorgeous.” - FUNNY GIRL (number 81 on AFI's list of the 100 top film quotes of all time)
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During an AFI seminar earlier this week, Martin Scorsese talked about how he was forced to re-think a scene while filming Silence.
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Why do movies and TV matter now? How will you remember 2016's best? They told us.
#movies#film#tv#tv shows#la la land#denzel washington#chris pine#donald glover#mel gibson#damien chazelle#movie awards#2016#andrew garfield#amy adams#arrival#Clint Eastwood#sully#this is us#nbc
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Composer John Williams accepts the 44th Life Achievement Award presented to him by his longtime friend and collaborator, Steven Spielberg. Watch his speech!
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Two years today without this man’s wit and humor. We miss you, Robin!
It’s been a year since we lost the great Robin Williams.
“Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.”
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See TICKLED at AFI DOCS 2016 on June 24 & 25! Get tickled here.
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THE BIRDS, released on March 28, 1963
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A joyful candid shot of two time Best Director Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu during a visit to AFI in 2014.
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SPOTLIGHT director Tom McCarthy, editor Tom McArdle, and reporter/film subject Michael Rezendes discuss how they built tension in the film through editing.
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Looking for a great love story? We got 100 of 'em for you.
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Meet the legendary Bill Gold, who has designed some of the greatest movie posters in film history - from CASABLANCA to MYSTIC RIVER. Read our new interview with him here.
#bill gold#the exorcist#dirty harry#movie posters#casablanca#mystic river#movies#cool hand luke#alien#Bonnie and Clyde
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Director John Huston advised Katharine Hepburn to play her character Rose by keeping in mind Eleanor Roosevelt’s slightly superior, but polite, public bearing, and in Hepburn’s book The Making of The African Queen, she called the suggestion the “best piece of direction I have ever heard.”
--from the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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Director George Miller: "I'd never wanted to do another MAD MAX movie, I'd already done three of them."
Then he made MAD MAX: FURY ROAD!
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The Untold Story of Ordinary People
In 1989, Robert Redford’s directorial debut won big and redefined the family drama. Now 35 years later, the filmmaker and stars look back on the movie that put an entire generation in therapy.
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