Norman Lloyd, who has died aged 106, had the privilege of working as an actor, director and producer with such towering figures as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir and Charlie Chaplin; they were also his close friends. […]
“Bobby is the kind of guy who could do just about anything,” one colleague says. […]
“The last thing we needed to hear,” writes Anthony D’Alessandro in Deadline Hollywood, “as the box office and exhibition were rebounding from the pandemic was a piece of bad news, but word spread like wild fire in distribution and exhibition […]
How a Kid Found the Heart in “Harold And Maude.” […]
Ken Burns did it. So did Michael Moore. But a lot of documentary filmmakers don’t go union. Is that about to change? […]
Officials at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures were busy talking about the past — not only Oscar history, but the whole history of movies — as plans were revealed for initial programming for the long-awaited and long-delayed […]
Director David Fincher commanded his own army of Foley artists, dialog editors and sound specialists for his iconoclastic biographical portrait of the screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman). […]
The already low representation of Latinx talent across the industry – and even lower visibility of those who have succeeded – contributes to the low awareness. Even today, many do not see filmmaking in their future because they don’t often see directors, editors or cinematographers within their own environment. […]
Early cinema is often remembered as an exclusively black-and-white affair, diametrically opposed to the vibrant menagerie of colors afforded by today’s 4K television sets. But in fact, an estimated 80 percent of early films were made […]
In better times than these, Hollywood’s charities were a lifeline for thousands of industry workers in need of a little help just to get by. In 2020, that need exploded exponentially as the Covid-19 pandemic ravaged lives, livelihoods and life savings. Mary Pickford, who co-founded the Motion Picture and Television […]
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