DIRECTING ‘BEN-HUR’ –
INTERVIEW WITH TIMUR BEKMAMBETOV

It’s never an easy path for a kid who falls in love with movies and spends their whole life wanting to be a director. For every Peter Jackson, Edgar Wright or Gareth Edwards there are countless more we never hear from. But spare a thought for Russian director Timur Bekmambetov. Interview by Drew Turney While Jackson… Continue reading DIRECTING ‘BEN-HUR’ –
INTERVIEW WITH TIMUR BEKMAMBETOV

WHAT’S MY SCENE?

"One of my favorite movies, Roman Polanski’s “The Pianist” was shot almost entirely in the old part of Warsaw. Highly recommend it, I think it ranks higher than Spielberg’s “Shindler’s List” when it comes to portraying the reality of Holocaust, without any forced emotions. " (image: datscene.tumblr.com).

Every now and then we come across some a slightly off-topic but cool none the less. We recently were pointed to a Tumbler blog by Phil Grishayev called Dat Scene, in which he visits locations from famous movie scenes and recreates the scene in poses. Grishayey told us that the idea for the blog came to him spontaneously:… Continue reading WHAT’S MY SCENE?