The Wannsee Conference, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on January 20, 1942, was attended by fifteen […]
Category Archive: Director
“Welcome to Disneyland!” Those were the first words Canadian-born film director Arthur Hiller said to me with his […]
Edward Dmytryk was a renowned film director of several screen classics, including “Murder, My Sweet” (1944), “Crossfire” (1947), […]
In the early morning of June 22, 1969, Judy Garland passed away at age 47 in the bathroom […]
French actor Vincent Cassel (b. 1966) plays François Vidocq in his latest feature, “L’Empereur de Paris” (a.k.a. “The […]
British screen actor Rupert Everett visited the Belgian coastal city of Ostend and its latest edition of the […]
On a hot Saturday evening in Brussels, when everybody seems to be having a drink or enjoying dinner […]
I love the camera a lot more than you think--all the time. But if you don't see it, that's a great compliment, because audiences are not supposed to see the camera move. You want them only to be involved with the characters on the screen. Frank Capra in a 1973 interview with Richard Glatzer
"The French Connection" [1971] was turned down twice by literally every studio in town. Then Richard D. Zanuck, who was running 20th Century Fox, said to me, 'Look, I've got a million and a half bucks tucked away in a drawer here. If you can do this picture for that, go ahead.' Film director William Friedkin
If you want to learn everything there is to know about acting for film, just watch Steve McQueen's eyes. Sam Peckinpah
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