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2021The Mist: Taming the Beast - The Making of Scene 35
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Everett Burrell, Richard Cantu
Scene 35 can best be described as the point in which the muck hits the fan. It's a scene with unbridled chaos involving CG effects, creature models, stunts, coordination, dramatic character portrayals ... just about anything that could possibly go wrong in a scene. This feature shows how it came to be, how Darabont infused some last-minute ideas into its assembly, and how it wedged in as one of the stronger parts of The Mist.
The Mist: Taming the Beast - The Making of Scene 35
Dreams Within a Dream: The Classic Cinema of Edgar Allan Poe
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Doug Bradley
It walks us through the various Edgar Allan Poe adaptations in cinema from the early days of silent movie-making on through to the Roger Corman Poe cycle of films and slightly beyond.
Dreams Within a Dream: The Classic Cinema of Edgar Allan Poe
Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices
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Mel Blanc, Noel Blanc
The life and career of the renowned voice actor of animation and radio. For generations, Mel Blanc was one of the most famous Hollywood voice actors with his myriad of voices for classic animated characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and scores of others. However, animation was only one of the fields where Blanc shone through in his long career. This film covers the life of this amazingly talented and big hearted actor, comedian and musician as he became one of the performing greats from the golden ages of American animation and radio through to the 1980s.
Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices
The Horror of It All: The Visual F/X of The Mist
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Everett Burrell, Frank Darabont
This 16-minute featurette focuses on CafeFX, the team behind the CG work in The Mist (as well as Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth). They discuss a wide array of points, from matching models with the KNB creature crew to documentaries that inspired the designs. It's great to see a lot of the work-in-progress materials (grid assembly, texture work, etc), as it helps to appreciate exactly what pops up on screen. Furthermore, it also discusses a lot of the "mist" effects that play off of their environments
The Horror of It All: The Visual F/X of The Mist
Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary!
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Chuck Jones, Leonard Maltin
Narrated by Billy Crystal, the documentary examines the history of the character over the decades, including sketches, clips from the shorts, and interviews with the animation legends who created some of the most memorable Bugs material
Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary!
Monsters Among Us: The Creature FX of 'The Mist'
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Everett Burrell, Frank Darabont
Whenever a solid "brain trust" around creature assembly exists, then the process behind crafting these monsters must've been interesting. This 13-minute featurette captures the process of crafting the concepts for the monsters, from the models assembled for the primary ideas to the separation of computer and realistic tangible effects. KNB effects did some really strong work here, even in the small ways that purely give actors inspiration for their performances.
Monsters Among Us: The Creature FX of 'The Mist'
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
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George Kennedy, Ernest Borgnine
A featurette documentary that looks into the making of "The Dirty Dozen," containing interviews with the main cast, film scholars, and production personnel.
Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'
