As a young teenager, playing her first leading role in “The Virginia Judge” (1935), her debut feature at […]
Witty, charming, enjoyable, enchanting and winning. Simply brilliant. That’s a perfect way to describe Bill Forsythe’s breakthrough and […]
Film history: Focus on David O. Selznick, Alida Valli and “The Paradine Case”
From: Macnamara, Paul. Those Were the Days, My Friend: My Life in Hollywood With David O. Selznick and […]
Peter Greenaway’s latest film “Que Viva Eistenstein” is very much a homage to Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948). […]
In painting, the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema, the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation. Sergei Eisenstein
Film history: Focus on film criticism
From the very beginning of movies, at the time when Thomas Alva Edison’s little toy gave birth to […]
French film director Christian Carion surprised the world of movies ten years ago when he captured in his […]
