“Welcome to Disneyland!” Those were the first words Canadian-born film director Arthur Hiller said to me with his […]
Billy Wilder
“Little Audrey’s Daydream: The Life of Audrey Hepburn,” recently published by Princeton Architectural Press, tells the story of […]
Do you remember film directors such as Clarence Brown, Irving Rapper, Charles Vidor, or John Farrow? Those highly […]
In case you might ask yourself who is the most successful Hollywood screenwriter of all time, considering the […]
Ernst Lubitsch could do more with a closed door than most of today's directors can do with an open fly. Billy Wilder in a 1975 interview
Almost a century ago, the silent screen’s most mythical ‘cinema artist,’ as he considered himself, began his Hollywood […]
As an eighteen-year-old, John Landis (b. 1950) got a job in the mailroom at 20th Century Fox, only […]
Five-time César-nominee Lucas Belvaux (b. 1961) is a former leading and supporting actor, much sought after in France […]
Let’s do the math first. If you take the Lumière brothers’ “Sortie des Usines Lumières à Lyon,” a.k.a. […]
“Stanley [Donen] is a master moviemaker. His knowledge of film is boundless, from his clever camera technique and […]
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