Filmshooting

well, again its only my idea, but why dont you keep the two murderers in, one of them insane, one not, and then work off that, how does the sane murderer justify his desire to murder (is justify the right word?), why does the insane guy not murder the sane one? why do they murder together, whats the...

F For Fake
Man with a Movie Camera
The Sorrow and the Pity
Shoah
Night and Fog

I dont like the idea of combining the two men into one, and then having the dialogue as if the one guy is talking to himself? i dont like it, not for artistic reasons but for moral ones. In a film or book or in any depiction of a character you are giving a representation of real life. Firstly, why a...

How do people go about editing their films? Say you've got all the film together, shot and you're happy with them, then what? Do you still use splicing and cement? or do you get it transfered to dv and edit it on a computer? are their other methods which are better? And if you do transfer it to comp...

Angelopoulos, Rivette, Ophuls, Hawks, Wong Kar-Wai, Keaton, Welles, Starevitch, Michael Powell...

thats great, thank you all so much for your help!
adam

hi, Im an absolute beginner to making films on celluloid, im very passionate about it though, and would really like to know if anyone could suggest a good book for beginners, or thats very complete either way on technical information, such as cameras, film stock, projectors, editing, stuff like that...