The most famous film set on the Gulf Coast of Florida is Citizen Kane. The Orson Welles masterpiece many, including the AFI, consider the greatest American film of all time. “Here, on the deserts of the Gulf Coast, a private mountain was commissioned and successfully built. One hundred thousand trees, twenty thousand tons of marble […]
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Over the weekend I was finally able to see a movie at the Tampa Theatre (in downtown Tampa, Florida) which is one of the most beautiful settings to watch a movie in the United States—maybe in the world. I arrived early because I wanted to look around and was not disappointed by the theater that was […]
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Yesterday I visited the Bay Pines National Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Florida. My father was a pilot in the Air Force and while he did not die in combat I made a trip to the cemetery where he is buried on Sunday. I had not been there in over a decade and this Memorial Day weekend […]
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Yesterday was one of the saddest and sweetest days of my life. Had to say goodbye to our 15-year-old golden retriever Lucy. Can’t remember when I’ve cried so hard. But also very thankful to have her in our life for so long. Back in January 2000 my wife and I weren’t looking for a dog […]
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“[John Maclean] told me the idea, showed me the script, and then told me he wanted to shoot it on a mobile phone. I thought, ‘Hm, this guy, he’s an original.’ And so that experience went well, and then it was like okay, let’s shoot another short with the aim of getting financing for a […]
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“Try to disconnect the idea of cinema with the idea of making a living and money.” Francis Ford Coppola Who said art has to cost money? “At this moment, anyone who dreams of becoming a filmmaker is lucky indeed. For the first time in the history of cinema, filmmaking does not need to be a […]
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“In this screenplay, I imagined a deadbeat father who had bailed on his kids years earlier, looking to return home to make amends.” Writer/director Edward Burns on The Fitzgerald Family Christmas “It’s a good thing our father left—we needed the space.” Sharon (Kerry Bishe) one of nine Fitzgerald children raised in a 3 bedroom house […]
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“I decided to go back and look at movies that had turned me on to filmmaking back in film school. I wanted to revisit the films and stories that inspired my dreams in the first place. Here’s a few: Antonini’s L’Avventura, De Sica’s Terminal Station [Also known as Indiscretion of an American Wife], Truffaut’s The […]
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“[The Brother’s McMullen] won the Grand Prize at Sundance, scored at the box office, and got me labeled as one of Hollywood’s hottest young independent filmmakers. A few years later, I couldn’t get a movie made.” Edward Burns Introduction to Independent Ed, Inside a Career of Big Dreams, Little Movies, and the Twelve Best Days […]
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“If you allow yourself to get crippled by the possibility of failure, you’re going to rob yourself of a lot of great experiences. There are very few great films, but something great, be it a new relationship or learning a new technology, has always come from my experiences making films even if the film itself was […]
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