Janet Leigh: “Norma Shearer was the quintessential star, a star like no other, and she was my fairy godmother”

In February 1946, Norma Shearer swept into the lobby of the Sugar Bowl Ski Lodge in Soda Springs, […]

Costa-Gavras: “Film is a perfect way to communicate with the audience”

Some people don’t age. Take film the legendary film director and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Costa-Gavras, for example. He […]

Costa-Gavras: “I make movies about people and their relationship with power and politicians”

For more than fifty years now, film director and screenwriter Costa-Gavras (b. 1933) has been one of French […]

Josef von Stroheim: “My father [Erich von Stroheim] only pretended to be very difficult to handle”

Almost a century ago, the silent screen’s most mythical ‘cinema artist,’ as he considered himself, began his Hollywood […]

Carla Laemmle: “Growing up on the Universal lot, near the New York street, was like a dream come true”

As the niece of Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Studios in 1915, Carla Laemmle lived a long and […]

Fred Zinnemann: “I always wanted to make films that were more than just entertainment”

It all seems so long ago now, but the memory is still very vivid. It was early 1993 […]

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