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Jason Joseph
07-10-2009, 11:37 PM
Hi

anyone know of good online behind the scenes docos or directors comments, making ofs, like the kind we find on dvd extras?
anyone know of any DVDs with good "extras" for that matter?

here one i found anyway on the Australia by Baz Luhrmann

feed://www.apple.com/podcasts/settoscreen/sts_baz_08.xml

thanks in advance
Gavin Greenwalt
07-11-2009, 12:11 AM
Well Natalie Portman just launched a new website:

http://www.makingof.com/
Brandon Fraley
07-11-2009, 11:34 AM
"Hearts of Darkness" is kind of the ol' stand-by answer. Great making-of flick.

Lord of the Rings DVDs pretty much rule over everything in terms of bonus content.

Lost in La Mancha chronicles the unmaking of a movie.

Speaking of Gilliam, there is a feature length making documentary on the 12 Monkeys DVD.

The Project Greenlight DVDs are fun to watch, particularly the first season, for me.

Clerks. X DVD has a very good feature legth doc on disc 3. The Clerks. II DVD also has a pretty good feature length doc as well.

...all I can think of off the top of my head, I'm sure there are many many others.
Joe G.
07-11-2009, 12:42 PM
On the Sin City DVD, I was blown away that the entire thing was shot in a green screen studio.

There was actually a fist fight where the two actors fighting never even met each other in real life. They were shot months apart.
Zakaree Sandberg
07-11-2009, 12:52 PM
leverage.. shot on red

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5B8_xg7YMI
Christian Edwards
07-11-2009, 01:35 PM
On the Sin City DVD, I was blown away that the entire thing was shot in a green screen studio.

There was actually a fist fight where the two actors fighting never even met each other in real life. They were shot months apart.
yeah same as The 300 although i wasnt to impressed by the encoding on the bluray :/ their making 2 and 3 Robert Rodriguez does some cool 10min film schools as extras on all his movies
Tom Lowe
07-11-2009, 03:22 PM
If you want to see some true behind the scenes horror, as well as a director who had the guts to stick it out, check out the legendary "Burden Of Dreams" featuring Herzog.
Gavin Greenwalt
07-11-2009, 08:28 PM
Ooo and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.
Gavin Greenwalt
07-11-2009, 08:30 PM
And of course there is also the LOTR extended edition collectors DVDs as well as the King Kong chest.
Craig W. Bickerstaff
07-12-2009, 04:35 AM
There is a really good documentary called "With in a minute behind the scenes of star wars episode 3" on the SW episode 3 dvd.