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 […]
French film director Christian Carion surprised the world of movies ten years ago when he captured in his […]
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