January 21st of this year would have been the centenary birth of a legend among Shakespearean actors who shied away from the limelight. His filmography is not as large as many others...
In the past, to become a filmmaker, one had to get hired in the studio system. Writers, costume designers, assistant directors, production designers, and even actors were able to parlay their resume...
Upon his sudden death in 1999, Stanley Kubrick was finishing up his erotic mystery Eyes Wide Shut and had a few projects in line to do after. In between the large gaps...
A strange controversy emerged recently over the film Licorice Pizza. Paul Thomas Anderson’s charming coming-of-age 70s story between a teenage child actor and older woman he finds attractive got some flack over...
The neverending desert and the heat melting the screen. The long halls of Britain’s headquarters in Cairo. The scores of fighters charging the terrain on camels. A soundtrack that captures Arabia’s exoticity....
In the shortest of all months, Criterion will have one new release every week. Three new films and one re-release make this February's slate full of romance for Valentine's Day, including a...
If you watch the end credits of a film, you will eventually read the following phrase or something very similar:
"The events and characters depicted in this movie are fictitious. Any similarity to...
I decided in the last year to start reading books about individuals in film history, especially those who wrote it themselves and express, in their own words, the backstage drama that went...
