Movielogr
Mackendrick on Film (2004)
Directed by Paul Cronin
Overview
Mackendrick on Film is an educational project constructed around the film teachings of legendary pedagogue Alexander Mackendrick. Taking as its starting point Mackendrick’s body of written work contained in his book On Film-making: An introduction to the craft of the director, Mackendrick on Film is a structured ‘illustrated lecture’ that features never-before-seen footage of Mackendrick at work in the classrooms and studios of the California Institute of the Arts, new interviews with former students and colleagues, extracts from archived interviews with Mackendrick about his career as a teacher of cinema, rare photos, and a selection of his student handouts, storyboards and sketches.
Length 400 minutes
Actors
Alexander Mackendrick | Ronald Harwood | Douglas Slocombe | Michael Pressman | Tom Pevsner | James Mangold | Thom Mount | David Irving | Doug Campbell