Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. Meryl Streep
Who is Veerle Baetens, you might think. And you’re right. So far, this 37-year old captivating and very […]
We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poets and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls. Daphne du Maurier
I always thought it was pretty intriguing that some of Hollywood’s most enduring screen personalities decided at one […]
As a 17-year-old teenager, Marsha Hunt played her first leading role in her debut film, “The Virginia Judge” […]
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 […]
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