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In Goodfellas (1990), Robert De Niro didn’t like how fake money felt in his hand and insisted on using real money. So the prop master withdrew several thousand dollars of his own money to use. At the end of each take, no one was allowed to leave the set until all the money was returned and counted. More brilliant film details: bit.ly/453YnYN

“Every human being is a problem in search of a solution” — Robert Ardrey

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The set design of the Event Horizon's core room is absolutely sinister. It's biblical mixed with cyber-gothic and medieval torture instruments. Event Horizon (1997) | Paul W.S. Anderson

The kitten waited patiently for the water bowl to be filled..🐈🐾🥣😍

This is advertising! Check out this killer stop-motion ad for NECA’s An American Werewolf in London Ultimate 2-Pack by the master himself, D.M. Galloway (DGDX Animation).

John Frankenheimer on the kind of training & mindset that is required to become a great director: "At the end of the day you have to be a great storyteller. And you have to be able to master the tools that you have to tell the story, which are, in order of importance, the script, the actors, and then the technical means. You should have studied drama, how it works, the three-act structure. I think that’s basic. You have to be able to communicate with actors. It’s very well for William Wyler to say, “I just want it better,” and do 30 or 40 takes, but there’s only one William Wyler. And you have to find a way to master the tools of your trade. There are so many people making movies today that know absolutely zero about the camera. To my mind, that’s personal su!c!de. They say to the cameraman “Well, how should we photograph this scene?” And the cameraman photographs it the way he or she thinks is best. That’s wrong. The young director should have a collaborative relationship with the cameraman the way Wyler and Welles did with Gregg Toland. A director has to have tremendous input into where the camera is, what it sees and how the film will be edited. You have to have knowledge to do that. They may even learn some of it in film school, but there’s no substitute for going out and doing it." ("John Frankenheimer: Interviews, Essays & Profiles", Edited by Stephen B. Armstrong, 2013) Clip from: The Letter (1940) Director: William Wyler

Brilliant poster for The Death of Robin Hood by @MadeofAlex_ #TheDeathofRobinHood #PostersoftheWeek

A cat train in Japan. It was opened in honor of the cat Tama, who worked as a station attendant in the city of Kinokawa. The entire train is dedicated to cats, and it even has a library.

Today is Étienne-Gaspard Robert’s birthday (15 June 1763). He was instrumental in developing Phantasmagoria horror theatre, summoning ghosts and skeletons with magic lanterns. The illustration below is an interpretation of his Phantasmagoria from F. Marion’s L’Optique (1867).

Cars on rails. Popular Science, October 1967.

Psycho released 66 years ago today ~ June 16th 1960🎬🔪

First look at ‘HEADS’, a new stop-motion animated film from Mackinnon & Saunders, the studio behind ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’. The film follows a dystopian world where severed human heads can live independent from their bodies & where the poor can sell their heads.

there is this one Nietzsche quote:

"Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself." --Miguel de Unamuno