Peter Becker Movies
- 2013
Living 'Lord of the Flies'
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Actor Tom Gaman (Simon) narrates some 8mm movies shot during the film's three-month production and shares memories of working on the movie during his...
- 2005
Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa
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An featurette with George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola looking back on their experience working alongside iconic filmmaker Akira Kurosawa on...
- 2024
Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days'
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Director Wim Wenders talks about the production process of his 2023 film ' Perfect Days'.
- 2022
Ralph-E: The Art of the Color Script
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This new piece, featuring Andrew Stanton and late production designer Ralph Eggleston -- who recently died on August 28 -- focuses on the color...
- 2022
Where It Began: The Origins of WALL·E
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In this program, created for the Criterion Collection in 2022, writer-director Andrew Stanton explores the films that inspired his approach to...
- 2013
Functions of Film Sound
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This visual essay sets clips from Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" to a reading of "Functions of Film Sound," a chapter from David Bordwell and...
- 2004
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
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This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at...
- 2010
Constructing a House
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Interview-based documentary looking back on the making and reception of Nobuhiko Ōbayashi's 1977 film House.
- 2016
Way Out on a Limb
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Documentary with several of director Robert Altman's longtime collaborators, as they discuss making the film McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), the style...
- 2010
The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'
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A making of documentary on "The Darjeeling Limited".
- 2022
Reflecting On Take Out
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In this new documentary, produced by the Criterion Collection in 2022, directors Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou and actors Charles Jang, Wang-Thye...
- 2020
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
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Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler on which "Fail-Safe" is based, along with the...
- 2019
In Full Swing
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A documentary on the making of the 1936 film Swing Time, featuring interviews with jazz and film critic Gary Giddens, dance critic Brian Seibert, and...
- 2019
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
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In 2009, Sean Baker sat down with the Godfather of Gore himself, Herschell Gordon Lewis, to discuss his legendary career as an exploitation pioneer...
- 2006
Seven Samurai: Origins and Influences
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Seven Samurai: Origins and Influences, a documentary looking at the samurai traditions and films that helped shape Kurosawa's masterpiece
- 2018
Homay King on 'Shanghai Express'
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Film scholar Homay King discusses director Josef von Sternberg's cinematic China and the role of star Anna May Wong in 'Shanghai Express'.
- 2021
A Very Tricky Balance
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In this program, director Bing Liu, executive producer Gordon Quinn, and producer Diane Quon discuss the conception of Minding the Gap and its...
- 2006
Men of Mystery
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Orson Welles Biographer Simon Callow discusses the making of "Mr. Arkadin" (aka "Confidential Report.")
- 2021
Passion Project
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Explores the ten-year journey of adapting Uzodinma Iweala's 2005 novel "Beasts of No Nation" into the 2015 film.
- 2019
Daniel London and Will Oldham on Old Joy
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In this conversation, shot by the Criterion Collection in 2019, actors Daniel London and Will Oldham reunite for the first time since the release of...