Samuel J. May
@sjmay92
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Artist, Filmmaker, Writer, Painter, with varying degrees of success.. Director: I Do Not Exist @IDoNotExist2022 Published at @IndieWire @LWLies @FilmmakerMag
Somewhere in the 20th century
Joined February 2017
For those based in the U.S, my film 'I Do Not Exist' is now streaming, and will be coming soon to other territories .
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"You say yes, and you never do it".Mel Brooks on dealing with studio executives.
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30 years expired. Chunking Express (1994) Dir. Wong Kar-wai
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"I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied".A thread celebrating 50 years of Scorsese magic, from Mean Streets to The Irishman
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John Cleese gives the greatest eulogy of all time at Graham Chapman's memorial service
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Taxi Driver (1976) / The Irishman (2019) .Dir. Martin Scorsese
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"Young Frankenstein is by far the best movie I ever made. Not the funniest - Blazing Saddles was the funniest, and hot on its heels would be The Producers. But as a writer-director, it is by far my finest.".Mel Brooks ~ Young Frankenstein's 50th anniversary
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Scorsese makes it look so easy ~ Killers Of The Flower Moon (2023)
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Before and after ~ Marlon Brando's make-up for The Godfather
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Saul Bass's rejected posters for The Shining (1980) with Stanley Kubrick's annotated feedback
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Remembering Robert Forster, who passed away 5 years ago today ~ Jackie Brown (1997)
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R.I.P Ennio Morricone, one of the greatest composers of all time, not just in film, but the history of all music ~ The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
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Shooting the Ride Of The Valkyries sequence in Apocalypse Now (1979) Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
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Remembering the master Andrei Tarkovsky, who passed away on this day in 1986 ~ Stalker (1979)
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"Are my methods unsound?".Apocalypse Now (1979) Dir. Francis Ford Coppola /.Dune (2021) Dir. Denis Villeneuve
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"I just wanted to exorcise both my angels and demons. I said to all the writers, "Look, fellas, don't worry, this movie will never get released. Never. Warner Bros will see it and they'll say, 'Let's bury it.' So let's go nuts".Mel Brooks ~ Blazing Saddles 50th anniversary
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M. Emmet Walsh recalls how a $10 bet held up the production of Blade Runner
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The Good, The Bad And The Ugly's 65th anniversary: Leone concludes his dollars trilogy in spectacular yet sombre fashion, the civil war backdrop providing plenty of introspection but this is still a Leone western, building to 1 of the greatest marriages of image & music in cinema
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While digital cinematography is now industry standard, particularly for shooting night scenes, it's a myth you can't shoot a good night scene on film ~ Thief (1981) Dir. Michael Mann
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Jackie Brown's 25th anniversary ~ While not yet fully breaking away from the ensemble structure Tarantino creates 1 of his greatest characters with Jackie Brown again utilising the screen history/presence of his actors to great affect whilst also refining his stylistic flourishes
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Gangs Of New York's 20th anniversary: Another long gestated passion project marked a turning point in Scorsese's career where he was now given the budget to realise his visions creating old NY on an unparalleled scale, towering above it an all consuming performance from Day-Lewis
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Spike Lee loves his dolly shot ~ .Malcolm X / BlacKkKlansman / Da 5 Bloods
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The Matrix's 25th anniversary ~ One of cinema's great anomalies, where an R-rated original IP gets the financial backing to become fully realised, the Wachowski's wear their influences on their sleeves, creating a wholly realised world in every department and instant iconography
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Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman, who passed away on this day in 2014 ~ The Master (2012)
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Stanley Kubrick & William Sylvester on 2001's Orbital station set
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Remembering Heath Ledger, who passed away on this day in 2008 ~ The Dark Knight (2008)
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"I’ve always felt that music is more expressive than dialogue. I’ve always said that my best dialogue and screenwriter is Ennio Morricone".Sergio Leone on Ennio Morricone ~ Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
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"I have no regard for and no knowledge of the value of money, I'm not saying that's a virtue, just a fact. For me, the greatest thrill in the world, the only thrill, is getting 20 seconds on the screen that really gases you".R.I.P William Friedkin ~ The French Connection (1971)
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Scorsese character introductions ~ . New York, New York / GoodFellas / Gangs Of New York
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Denis Villeneuve succeeds in created fully realised worlds because he understands the art of texture, amongst all the scale and special effects he knows that the audience needs something tangible to hold onto ~ Dune (2021)
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"My films are basically silent films. The dialogue just adds some weight".Remembering Sergio Leone, who passed away on this day in 1989 ~ Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
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Today marks Francis Ford Coppola's 80th birthday and The Conversation's 45th anniversary ~ The film's palpable paranoia resonated with audiences when it was released in the wake of the watergate scandal, but any similarities were purely coincidental
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"Films don't always tell a story; some films can achieve effect just by being razzle-dazzle or rock n' roll. That's part of the fare that's out there. And that's okay. For me, I place more value on a story".Happy 85th birthday Robert Redford ~ All The President's Men (1976) #botd
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The Tragedy Of Macbeth not winning best cinematography is one of the biggest oversights in the category's history, rarely does a film put such faith in the power of its composition and lighting as a means of expression, and execute it so spectacularly
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R.I.P. Rachael ~ 5/23/18 - 6/10/21 .Blade Runner / Blade Runner 2049
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Bram Stoker's Dracula's 30th anniversary ~ Coppola at his most opulent invigorates the genre with imagery that overwhelms the senses, a technical masterclass in all departments, with extraordinary achievements of in-camera visual effects & a defining titular performance by Oldman
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Lydia Tár is Cate Blanchett's Daniel Plainview, a towering performance for the ages
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The opening shot of The Godfather was achieved by using a computer controlled zoom lens, and was one of the first films to use such a technique, along with Douglas Trumbull's Silent Running
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R.I.P Bernard Hill ~ The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
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You've got to love Martin Scorsese's mother showing up in Casino to complain about all the swearing
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"He (Hitchcock) eventually saw a rough cut of High Anxiety. He enjoyed it. But he said nothing after it. He just left. I thought he wasn't happy. The next day. I get this enormous, beautiful case of Chateau Haut-Brion 1961".Happy 94th birthday Mel Brooks ~ High Anxiety (1977)
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