By Peter Tonguette   Speaking with the authority of one who watched the event from his living room, I’d say the 1995 Academy Awards had a quality of inevitability. On …

If there is anything that has proven even more enduring than New Hollywood movies, surely it is the cottage industry of books about New Hollywood movies.

“A Star Is Born” is something of a best-in-class example of how a strong property can stand up to multiple remakes that span generations.

“‘Sunset Boulevard’ is what my wife would call, and I would agree with her, fun junk,” Woody Allen once said. “You know, it’s great fun, but it’s a junky and …

By Peter Tonguette   In what may have represented a television first (and last) in June of 1972, Alfred Hitchcock appeared on “The Dick Cavett Show” to expound on the …

By Betsy A. McLane   For everyone who hopes to become a successful motion picture editor and has questions how to get involved, get started, move from assistant editor to …

By Peter Tonguette Interview books with filmmakers constitute a full-fledged literary subgenre, but among all of the one-on-one conversations that have been commemorated in print — Francois Truffaut’s with Alfred …

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.

Nostalgic fans of Siskel and Ebert may be the only readers to welcome all this detail.