Witty, charming, enjoyable, enchanting and winning. Simply brilliant. That’s a perfect way to describe Bill Forsythe’s breakthrough and […]
Category Archive: Director-screenwriter
Peter Greenaway’s latest film “Que Viva Eistenstein!” is very much a homage to Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948). […]
French film director Christian Carion surprised the world of movies ten years ago when he captured in his […]
Screenwriter-director Steven Knight’s latest film, out now in theaters worldwide, is Sergei Bodrov’s “Seventh Son,” an action-adventure epic […]
[In the 1930s] the influence of films upon manners and morals can hardly be overestimated. Clark Gable wore no undershirt in 'It Happened One Night' [1934] and put a crimp in the undershirt industry. Hat manufacturers were irritated if a leading man wore no hat. Lobbyists were constantly at work in Hollywood attempting to get stars, male and female, to smoke; sometimes to get men to smoke cigars instead of cigarettes. I was offered a handsome gift if I could induce Ginger Rogers to smoke a cigar in a scene. Garson Kanin