By Peter Tonguette Interview books with filmmakers constitute a full-fledged literary subgenre, but among all of the one-on-one conversations that […]
‘I couldn’t deal with what I was seeing. I felt betrayed.’ […]
When “talking pictures” took over in the early 1930s, Dorothy Parker was one of the many writers recruited by film studios to meet the needs of sound. […]
Happily, there’s gold to be found on nearly every page of this engaging book. […]
There was a small group of women who had exceptionally successful editing careers that started almost at the birth of cinema and continued for much of the 20th century. […]
Though we GenXers might look back on our favorite ’80s films with some chagrin, “Parenthood” (1989) holds up. […]
The late filmmaker William Friedkin was fond of describing his 1973 horror masterpiece “The Exorcist” as being a meditation on “the mystery of faith.” […]
The lights came on… Shock. Silence. “Oh man, we’re just working on a schlock low-budget Roger Corman sci-fi,” we thought. […]
By Doug Drake Although I grew up in the Florida Keys, I was born in San Diego at the Balboa […]
Nostalgic fans of Siskel and Ebert may be the only readers to welcome all this detail. […]
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