Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

97 mins | Documentary | July 17, 2005

How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to watch by an undemanding audience or even how mutilates them to adapt the original formats and runtimes to the restrictive frame of the television screen and the abusive requirements of advertising. (Followed by “Filmmakers in Action.”)

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

97 mins | Documentary | July 17, 2005

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to watch by an undemanding audience or even how mutilates them to adapt the original formats and runtimes to the restrictive frame of the television screen and the abusive requirements of advertising. (Followed by “Filmmakers in Action.”)
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers Producciones Kilimanjaro
Original title Cineastes contra magnats
Directors Carlos Benpar
Writers Ferrán Alberich, Carlos Benpar

Cast

Marta Belmonte

as Marta

Víctor Jerez

as Knight

Tunet Vila

as Monk

Daniel Medrán

as Navarrete

Antonio Regueiro

as Philip II of Spain

Ramón Planas

as Priest

Tomàs Mallol

as Professor

Santiago Lapeira

as Projectionist

Mark Schardan

as Receptionist

Jaume Artigas

as Technician #1

Joan Vall

as Technician #2

Enric Suñol

as Usher

Arthur Penn

as Himself

Elliot Silverstein

as Himself

Giuliano Montaldo

as Himself

Henning Carlsen

as Himself

Jack Cardiff

as Himself

José María Nunes

as Himself

Liv Ullmann

as Herself

Manuel De Sica

as Himself

Marco Bellocchio

as Himself

Maurizio Nichetti

as Himself

Miloš Forman

as Himself

Richard Fleischer

as Himself

Robert Ellis Miller

as Himself

Stanley Donen

as Himself

Sydney Pollack

as Himself

Vilgot Sjöman

as Himself

Woody Allen

as Himself

Burt Lancaster

as Himself (archive footage)

Darryl F. Zanuck

as Himself (archive footage)

Federico Fellini

as Himself (archive footage)

Fred Zinnemann

as Himself (archive footage)

John Huston

as Himself (archive footage)

King Vidor

as Himself (archive footage)

Orson Welles

as Himself (archive footage)

Raoul Walsh

as Himself (archive footage)

Vittorio De Sica

as Himself (archive footage)