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Michael Sucsy: “If you think of a film like a quick tryst and not a love affair, you’re going to run out of steam”

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I always thought “Every Day” (2018) was one of the most underrated films released last year. Dealing with […]

July 5, 2019 Director-screenwriter, Film Talk

Lynn Van Royen: “As an actress, I want to be sincere in what I do. I have to believe in what I do”

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When Flemish-born actress Lynn Van Royen was asked if she would be interested in becoming the Master for […]

April 29, 2019 Actress, Film Talk

Dean Tavoularis: “Everything that Coppola fought against and fought for made ‘The Godfather’ a screen classic”

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Does the name Dean Tavoularis ring a bell? If it doesn’t, you’ve certainly admired his work over the […]

April 19, 2018 Film Talk, Production designer

Betty Garrett: “We decided to put the Hollywood blacklist behind us and get on with our lives”

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On April 7, 2004, American philanthropist and media mogul Ted Turner, founder of CNN and TCM, among others, […]

March 5, 2018 Actress, Film Talk

Robert Schwenkte: “What I always look for when I watch other people’s films is to be exposed to their brain”

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Whenever a German filmmaker crosses the Atlantic to work with the most talented actors or screenwriters in the […]

February 16, 2018 Director-screenwriter, Film Talk, Masterclass

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

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

December 15, 2017 Film Talk, Sound editor

John Landis: “I’m always taking great pride in the fact that—I hope—I don’t have a style of my own”

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As an eighteen-year-old, John Landis (b. 1950) got a job in the mailroom at 20th Century Fox, only […]

September 6, 2017 Dir-prod-scr, Film Talk

Mamie Van Doren: “Talking about Marilyn Monroe is strange. To me, she’s a person; to most people, she’s an idea”

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In the 1950s and 1960s, former screen actress Mamie Van Doren (b. 1931) was, along with Marilyn Monroe […]

July 28, 2017 Actress, Film Talk

Betty Lasky: “My father [Jesse L. Lasky] was co-founder of Paramount, yet now he’s a forgotten film mogul”

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This old black and white still from Betty Lasky’s family album was taken by her mother Bessie, ca. […]

April 25, 2017 Film pioneer, Film Talk

“Blackboard Jungle”: How Glenn Ford’s son Peter launched Bill Haley’s ‘Rock Around the Clock’

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“One, two, three o’clock, four o’clock rock. Five, six, seven o’clock, eight o’clock rock…” Remember this intro from […]

April 24, 2017 Film history

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