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...couple of seconds in Blowup, he changed Hollywood history. The movie was produced by Carlo Ponti and was to be distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the stately old lion of American film studios. But the industry ratings board wouldn't give the picture a seal because, during a photo-shoot romp, the model Jane Birkin allowed the briefest display of pubic hair. Instead of trimming the scene to the board's specifications, MGM honored Antonioni's version of the film, invented a subsidiary, Premier Productions, and sent Blowup out under that logo. The film was a surprise hit and ushered...
...then there were the hard times, many of them on the start of the more than 110-day Ultimatum shoot. Filming a chase scene in Tangier, a busy North African port city in the middle of Ramadan meant securing contracts with more than 2,000 businesses and shutting down production when fasting crowds got cranky. As the script shifted, Greengrass and Damon shared frustrating early-morning huddles. "The two of them would sit there and talk for hours about this character," says producer Frank Marshall. They shot ill-conceived scenes, Damon says, that they knew at the time would never...
...other late-in-life entrepreneurs, Richard Steckel, 65, waited a long time for a shot at running his own show and doing something good for the world. A few years ago, he sold his house and slashed his living expenses to buy some cameras and travel the world to shoot pictures of children in common settings: a first haircut, a lost tooth. A former museum director, Steckel hoped to show that all people share the same basic life experiences. He and his wife Michele, his partner in the Milestones Project in Littleton, Colo., say they have found their purpose. "People...
...copied some of that from him. I liked his attitude that a film is not an event you make a big deal out of. He felt filmmaking was just a group of people working. He worked very fast. He'd shoot seven or eight pages of script at a time. They didn't have the money to do anything else...
...that from him. I liked his attitude that a film is not an event you make a big deal out of. He felt filmmaking was just a group of people working. At times he made two and three films in a year. He worked very fast; he'd shoot seven or eight pages of script at a time. They didn't have the money to do anything else...