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
Billy Wilder
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 […]
Seven-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 […]
I honestly can’t imagine that a filmmaker such as John Schlesinger needs any further introduction. His name rings […]
Film director Volker Schlöndorff (b. 1939 in Wiesbaden, Germany), who gained worldwide fame and popularity with his highly […]
It all seems so long ago now, but the memory is still very vivid. It was early 1993 […]
Independent filmmaker and producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. passed away on January 9, 2015, in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in […]
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