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Ben Stier @zeuez

Writer | Director ‘Girl Without End’ Now On Amazon https://t.co/i9OkEJhF66 girlwithoutend.com Joined March 2008
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Ben Stier @zeuez

2 weeks ago

These two shots appear an hour apart from each other in DW Griffith's "Broken Blossoms". Lilian Gish was playing the role of an abused teen, beaten by her drunk father, and ultimately killed by him in a violent pre Kubric axe to the bathroom door scene that horrified audiences…

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Ben Stier @zeuez

2 weeks ago

If you want to make a movie... don’t. If you’re interested in making a movie and it sounds like fun…don’t. If you want to make a movie because you can, and think it would be cool to get awards and impress others…don’t. If you MUST make a movie or you will explode and die and…

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Ben Stier @zeuez

a month ago

Throwback! BTS from a super fun shoot with @jdustinfreeman for our indie sci-fi film 'Girl Without End'. #filmmaking #indiefilm #filmlovers #movies #acting

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Ben Stier @zeuez

a month ago

“I’m not a career Director. Some men the'll make a good picture, then they keep trying and trying, they won't work for a year and a half - they're trying to beat the last one. I just keep on going making pictures. Good, bad indifferent. I just like to be around the studios, I…

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Ben Stier @zeuez

a month ago

Interviewer: “Mr. Ford, what did think you would achieve when you made your first pictures?” John Ford: “I thought I would achieve a check.”

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Ben Stier @zeuez

a month ago

Interviewer: "Mr. Ford you made a picture called '3 Bad Men" which is a large scale western, you had quite an elaborate land rush in it, how did you shoot that?" John Ford: "With a camera." Remember kids, always shoot your movies with a camera.

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Ben Stier @zeuez

a month ago

GET YOUR PEN READY: The Hitchcock formula: 1) Plant a secret. 2) That Secret becomes a secret plan. 3) Create close calls that the plan or the secret will get revealed. 4) Wait - discovery nervously looms. 5) Funny moments extend the reveal. 6) They are ALMOST caught. 7) A…

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Ben Stier @zeuez

a month ago

“The genre ‘horror' is the star. Let it be the star." -Jason Blum I never thought I could make something scary until my sister looked over at me with a wadded up tissue in her hand after watching a little indie I made and she said “Wow Ben, that was really scary." It was only 1…

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Ben Stier @zeuez

a month ago

"No 'think' gags! When the audience is thinking they can't be laughing, and when they are laughing they can't be thinking!" -Mack Sennett Mack Sennett, known as the first King of Comedy, was a producer and director of hundreds of films, and entertained millions of audience…

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Ben Stier @zeuez

a month ago

“My films will explore the heart. Not with logic, but with compassion.” - Frank Capra in 1945 Frank made this promise to himself, after a life long career writing silent era comedy gags and directing films that transformed Columbia into a real studio. This career had sunk him…

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Ben Stier @zeuez

a month ago

"When we tell a story in cinema, we should resort to dialogue only when it’s impossible to do otherwise.” - Alfred Hitchcock I envy the directors that learned to make films in the silent era. They have a knack for showing you the words that would be spoken. The evolution of…

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Ben Stier @zeuez

2 months ago

“The sentiment, made it, we all love sentiment we live on it. Otherwise we would be scratching each others eyes out.” - Frank Capra People, I think especially characters in movies base their decisions on emotion over reason. Whenever someone in a film does the reasonable thing,…

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Ben Stier @zeuez

2 months ago

"If you want to make a movie you get four good scenes that the audience will remember and then you just string it together with a bit of story.” - Alfred Hitchcock I think it’s true. Most of the time you walk out of the theatre without remembering the story at all-all you…

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Ben Stier @zeuez

2 months ago

“Involve the people of the audience with the people on the screen.” - Frank Capra #filmmaking #indiefilm People that love cinema, are people that love people. Thats what I think anyway. We want to sympathies and empathize with the people on the screen, we fear for them, cheer…

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2 months ago

One second from every one of Buster Keaton's silent movies, in order of release

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Ben Stier @zeuez

2 months ago

Whew! Lots of new updates to our film website: BTS images, stills, trailer, links and more! Including an Amazon rental for $0.49 ! girlwithoutend.com

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Ben Stier @zeuez

2 months ago

This screening was a year ago, and I’m still buzzing from it! I miss making this movie. Getting close to the next one. girlwithoutend.com

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Ben Stier @zeuez

3 months ago

"People are not scared of the scares unless what comes before the scares is riveting. You have to have great drama. You have to get someone to forget they’re watching a movie." - Jason Blum

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