THUNDER ROAD

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Paul Thomas Anderson claims that everything he knows about directing he learned from John Sturges’ commentary on the BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK LaserDisc.

This is an exclusive, it’s never been released on any DVDs of the film, it stayed on the Criterion LD for ages — until it was ripped a while ago. So the only way anyone could ever hear this is if they had a LaserDisc player. Well, not anymore.

This was the first MGM film to be shot in Cinemascope. According to director John Sturges’s commentary track on the Criterion Laserdisc release, it was also filmed at the same time in the standard 4:3 ratio version because studio executives still weren’t sure how well the wide screen format would work. That version was never released.

Behind the Camera On BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK

The film itself is an hour and 21 minutes, when I got done splicing up the bits I marked as informative – I had about 50 minutes of material from Sturges. After the split, I left out about 20 minutes that was good, but mostly outdated. So what you’ve got is essentially 30 minutes of some really great fucking filmmaking discussion. I am thankful that this great man left us with some insight before he left this earth. — filmschoolthrucommentaries

A must-listen: John Sturges’ commentary on the ‘Bad Day at Black Rock’ laserdisc cinephilearchive.tumblr.com/post/381543706… #filmmaking

— LaFamiliaFilm (@LaFamiliaFilm) December 17, 2012

Bruce Springsteen performs at Stand Up For Heroes 6, as he has every year at this annual Bob Woodruff Foundation benefit, at the Beacon Theatre in New York, 11/8/12. Funds raised help wounded United States service members and their caregivers. Visit reMIND.org to learn more and to donate to the cause.

Setlist: We Take Care of Our Own / Working on the Highway / Tougher Than the Rest (with Patti Scialfa) / Land of Hope and Dreams

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The Animals ||| We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

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That’s every song I’ve ever written. Yeah. That’s all of them. I’m not kidding, either. That’s “Born to Run,” “Born in the USA,” everything I’ve done for the past 40 years, including all the new ones. But that struck me so deep. It was the first time I felt I heard something come across the radio that mirrored my home life, my childhood. —Bruce Springsteen

Cabin In the Air by Nancy Wilson. From the motion picture, Almost Famous.