I love how he goes in-depth about his films and even other modern director's films. I was so glad to see him back to interviewing filmmakers lately and how much he appreciates films from all over the world.
It's a variation on what a film teacher I knew said twenty years ago: "you look down when watching a TV screen, but need to look up to see the cinema." Or, the difference Marshall McLuhan noted between a cold medium and a hot one.
Guillermo Del Toro Is a genius. I had the pleasure of meeting him a few nights ago at a ‘nightmare alley’ q&a. I’m a screenwriter but I’m disabled and Latina so I always get told ‘write what you know’. I don’t want to do that anymore and want to be creative like him, and asked him how I could do that. He asked me my favorite book and I told him and he said ‘re-write that’. My mind was BLOWN.
"Writing what you know" isn't just about writing from your personal experience (though that is a big part since the most personal stories are often the best ones) it's about learning new things to write about. In the end, it all depends on whether you truly believe in the story that you're writing.
Espero todo salga bien. Tienes que escribir las maravillas que salgan de tu interior. Voy a poner en práctica lo que dijo Del Toro. Había escuchado por ahí que Alex Garland leyó el libro de Annihilation y que a partir de sus recuerdos y sus sentires escribió el guión visualizando lo que había visualizado cuando lo leyó, para así darle su propia perspectiva. Siento que te ayudará mucho. Escribe siempre que te nazca.
Did you know that Asghar Farhadi movie ( A Hero ) was copied from one of his student's documentary ( All Winners, All Losers ) - by Azadeh Masihzadeh. That famous smile is actually real In this documentary, It is not true that Farhadi saw it on his daughter’s face . m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y66MElQXutA.html
What I really love about this is that you can see when each person is talking, the other filmmakers are listening completely attentively like they are getting a free masterclass. Really great artists who all respect and admire each other's work
Pedro Almadovar is 72 years young and Jane Campion feels like a girl of 67. It's crystal clear that you do not grow old doing what you love. What beautiful people around this table
Guillermo is my favorite artist to just listen to while I'm working on something else, always so insightful, honest and inspiring. His passion for his craft motivates me a lot to do better as well.
Love how Almodovar keeps looking to Guillermo for translations 🥺🥺 and Jane Campion is an absolute queen - so amazing to see her get more worldwide recognition for the Power of the Dog. The Piano, Bright Star, and An Angel at my Table are all amazing films. Top of the Lake season 1 is also phenomenal ✨✨✨
Kenneth Branagh is so engaging and it's wonderful to see him so excited and passionate still after such a long, established career. Del Toro is right about Belfast too, it was fantastic.
Guillermo Del Toro movies have many realistic violent scenes that gives you a different kind of shock, almost anti-Tarantino. E.g: Pan's Labyrinth's nose smashing scene, amputation scene, Nightmare Alley's cemetary scene etc. I think it's one of his most underrated trademarks.
Been waitin' for this for so long.....I hope they include Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Joachim Trier, Asghar Farhadi and Paulo Sorrentino in this roundtable. There were great amount of exceptional non-english/foreign language films last year, and at least some directors from these movies should be honoured over here and eventually in the Oscar nominations!
As a dedicated and ambitious actor, I enjoy watching Hollywood Roundtable. It gives me clues as to what I must bring to a film production. I was elated to hear Asghar Farhadi indicate his interest in working with new actors whose faces have never been seen. That statement gave me hope. Now, I am curious as to what other directors have this kind of empathy.
I love that Asghar Farhadi talks about the back-and-forth during the writing. We hear a lot about how writers' and directors' visions are compromised by producers and production companies, but less so about a really important part of creativity (questioning and particularly encouraged questioning).
I love the discussion about watching cinema in a large theater, together communally submitting to the story, the vistas, the characters, the surround sound. I remember the days when everyone laughing at the same time, or jumping out of our seats, or grabbing tissue and quietly wiping away tears, applause at the ending credits, whooping at the beginning, yup I hope the generations to follow can have shared experiences like I had.
hopefully....i loved going to movie theatres, especially the older theatres i went to as a kid with my mates....sadly those theatres have been demoloished or replaced but todays theatres are still worthwhile going too, alot more spacious and comfortable anyway......it was fun to escape reality for a few hours and get lost in watching a movie ......but i think technology has changed it some what with streaming services and the big killer...the internet.....im not complaining i stream hardout as its just easier.... but yeah i get what you mean.
I am very much happy to see director Reinaldo Marcus Green from being a short film director and now having directed feature films. i remember he was talking in a video on the channel "no film school" on Sharing Advice for Young Filmmakers back in 2015 now to be seated in the Directors Roundtable with these legends. Really happy and glad.
I loved the old studio setting of these roundtable conversations. In a dark room, with a huge roundtable that is illuminated by a light above and every artist occupying the seats around the table. That setting has the impact of pulling you into the video. Miss that
42:55 Kenneth Branagh says something totally true about the difference between watching a movie in the theater and watching it on TV: "You get the epic nature of the human face... massive close-ups of faces in the cinema that makes me feel different about the human condition..." This is something that streaming services will never be able to achieve. That's why I prefer to watch movies on a big screen first.
So interesting this roundtable in particular with all kind of different perspectives and at the same time common points of view and habits as directors. I've really enjoyed this one. Thank you from bring us these roundtables. It may not seems so much but for me it's so important to listen to different artists of any area (actors, directors, composers, etc.) because you can learn a lot from them.
This is such a diverse set of directors of different cultures and masters in their craft. This looks amazing. Each one has put their heart on their sleeves in a masterwork way. Love all these directors.
What a great table. They all are true thinkers and gentle people which allowed such a calm and understanding dynamic inviting a more sophisticated conversation. Compare to other tables, this one give longer and subtler answers, and complement to the moderator for reading the room and not interrupting the guests just to get more questions in.
I love these roundtables and I feel like we could have another roundtable just for the writer-director of their movies. This director roundtable features a majority of directors who also wrote their film. It would be a fascinating roundtable if we focused strictly on the art of taking your own words and translating it for the screen. It would also open up the opportunity to then have more directors on this roundtable like Pablo Larrain, Joe Wright, and Halle Berry.
@@anchalkumar8224 Around the time he made "The Past", he partly moved abroad to work in France or Spain because of the limitations in Iran (and also the censorship). His first completely foreign film "Everybody Knows" shot in Spain turned out quite disappointing and he was too scared to ruin his reputation. So he moved back to Iran, and at this point in time Iran had become an absolute hellhole. You can look up the sanctions set in motion by the US in 2018-2019. Although Farhadi's films have always been timely social commentaries, this time he opted to cooperate with the bloodthirsty dictatorship in Iran so that they would let him make films in his home country again. So he chose to close his eyes and shut his mouth and do everything to protect his global reputation. "A Hero" is a film partly shot at a prison where political prisoners where held and executed. He portrayed the country as if nothing special was happening and like life had been going on as usual. All because of his selfishness. Because he wanted to hold onto his seat at the Oscars and places like this roundtable. I replied to more comments yesterday, but Hollywood reporter chose to delete all of them except for this one. At least I'm letting one person know who he really is.
The first thing you have to lern is just to answer every kind of question, even if you don't know the answer, you say something. And then the machine works ( This is pure gold). This is something that define a director: is someone that everybody is asking him a lot of quiestions more than hundreds by day, and you have to give an answer, it doesn't matter what. (I love this part)
Greatest Directors Roundtable ever made. The power of the dog was the best 2021 movie I've seen hands down. As for Pedro Almodovar , his movie Julieta is one of my top 20 movies in the world . ( G.Del Toro's laugh is priceless ...!)
I just want to add that theaters mass closing In Spain is probably related to the fact that there is a lot of unemployment there amongst young adults. Also directors go to theaters under the best possible conditions. Real screenings have loud obnoxious people who use their phones and shout during the movie. They kick your seats. Yes you can turn around and yell at them but by that time you have basically lost the immersion, lost 15 bucks and the evening is ruined.
I love at 40:18 when Guillermo starts questioning whether audiences choosing streaming over going to the cinema is generational or transitional. I'm a young filmmaker, and I obviously love going to the cinema, but the vast, vast, vast majority of my film experiences were on a small screen at home. I can say for sure, that the magic of film is alive and well no matter what screen you see it on. Goodfellas still managed to rip the fabric of the universe open for me when I watched it on my laptop in my teenage bedroom. Idk, I just see this generation of directors lamenting the decline of cinema as if it's the ONLY true way to enjoy it, and I do just disagree with that. Long live cinema obviously, but I don't think it's all or nothing.
I am an old film watcher, most of the films I have seen in my life have been on smaller screens. I don't think it is a young generation phenomena. I find it easier to immerse myself when I am not dealing with the lights from others mobile devices, Googlebox commentary and food chomping. Home is a better experience and the sound & picture quality has improved greatly over the years. The cost of watching so many films at the cinema would be far too high for most people. Concentration on new releases is also their downfall. The lockdown has simply speeded up the process of not attending cinemas. Cinema will remain the same way books remained after film/television was invented.
