The Best Scene In Empire of the Sun

I have to agree with the title of this video.  The movie did have many, many great scenes, but these six minutes made the movie.
[too bad the video cuts off right at the part where the doctor screams at Jim: "Try not to think so much!"
Followed by Bale's excellent pause, frightful [...]

Close Encounters Deleted Scene

Freshly leaked scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, one of my favorite Spielberg flicks!  It connects with the early scene involving the air traffic control tower monitoring an encounter.  I like the rewrite where the two met at the South American airstrip better, but this is still very interesting to watch, and imagine [...]

Creative Process of Lucas/Spielberg/Kasdan

 
Since The Transcript of George Lucas’ brainstorming sessions with Steven Spielberg and writer Lawrence Kasdan was released online as a .pdf, I’ve been perusing it.  It’s basically these two 1978 wunderkinds are telling Kasdan how they want the story to be, and Kasdan himself shows tremendous grok of their concepts, and even makes many suggestions [...]