ReelzChannel’s Nando Velasquez sat down with Larry Charles and Bill Maher to talk about their documentary, Religulous. Charles directed the movie, in which Maher travels around the globe interviewing people about God and religion.
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In March of 1977, about 14 months before shooting began on The Shining, Jack Nicholson took a vacation to Colorado, apparently leaving his palace on Mulholland Drive in the care of Anjelica Huston, Marlon Brando’s maid, and Chinatown director Roman Polanski. Polanski, 44, owed the French edition of Vogue a photo story and had decided [...]

 
“Notes on the Making of ‘Apocalypse Now,’ ” Eleanor Coppola’s 1979 production diary of husband Francis’ audacious, flawed film released that year, remains one of the best accounts ever written of the insane difficulties involved in shooting a big-budget movie on location. Nearly 30 years later, she brings the same scrupulous honesty and lucid, thoughtful [...]

 
Film festivals can be a rollercoaster of highs and lows.
A premiere can be an ecstatic experience, but there’s a bit of a hangover the next day. Now what? Will the movie get in more festivals or is this it? Is this movie going to sell? Will we make our money back?
Similarly a documentary film festival [...]

 
Ask Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris how he makes movies, and his answer has a disarmingly goofy, gee-whiz quality: “I like to think of myself as a conceptual vacuum cleaner, an Electrolux,” he told an audience in New York City at a recent screening of his latest documentary, “Standard Operating Procedure.”
“I try to make friends [...]

 
Morgan Spurlock is a curious guy who’s dedicated his career to answering some pretty crazy questions via his documentary films and television show.
What would a month-long McDonald’s diet do to the human body (”Super Size Me”)? Can two people live for a month solely on minimum wage (season one of “30 Days”)? What would it [...]

 
Martin Scorsese is at a point in his career when he has it all: respect, an Oscar, mainstream fame, the ability to do whatever he wants. This week, what he wants to do is show you his new Rolling Stones concert film, then get back to making another Boston movie.
It all comes back to the [...]

 
At the BFI Southbank, Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme talks about capturing the tears and dignity of the former US president in his Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains.
(The Guardian UK)

 
Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese is knee-deep in his new film, an adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s thriller “Shutter Island” starring Leonard DiCaprio and Ben Kingsley, among others. And he’s stumped. Just a little.
“This new movie is set in 1954,” he says in comic exasperation. “No Rolling Stones!”
Fans of the filmmaker will understand his consternation. Long before [...]

With the 2008 presidential election on the horizon, the US Supreme Court on Monday summarily dismissed an appeal alleging that the free speech rights of the producers of a harshly critical political documentary were violated.
At issue was a request for a preliminary injunction by Citizens United, a conservative advocacy group that produced a documentary about [...]