To this day, few actors or actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood have garnered Audrey Hepburn’s status […]
Peter Bogdanovich
Nicholas Josef von Sternberg: “There’s no doubt that my father was a highly respected film director”
Today, all-round filmmaker Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) is best remembered as the man behind UFA’s first talking picture, […]
How about a walk down memory lane to take a quick look at what happened at the box […]
William Theodore Kotcheff (b. 1931) was a guest of honor at the 1983 Brussels Film Festival and while […]
Let’s do the math first. If you take the Lumière brothers’ “Sortie des Usines Lumières à Lyon,” a.k.a. […]
Marilyn Monroe had no confidence in herself. She found it very difficult to concentrate, and she really didn't think she was as good as she was. She'd worry about all kinds of things, and she would do the very difficult things very well. Sometimes she was very distracted and couldn't sustain it, and you had to do it in bits and pieces; sometimes she was in such state of nerves that you'd have to shoot individual lines. But such was her magic that you'd put them all together and they seemed as though she spoke them all at one time. She was a real movie personality, a real movie queen. George Cukor in a 1969 interview with Peter Bogdanovich (published in "Who the Devil Made It," 1997)
Peter Hyams (b. 1943; picture, on the set of “Narrow Margin”) is a very accomplished, all-round and versatile […]
Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audrey Tautou: hopefully we’ll catch another glimpse of their on-screen magic
It all began more than a century ago and since then, it often proved to be a successful […]
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 […]
Generous, energetic, timeless and no-nonsense film director William Friedkin, at age 36 Academy Award winner as Best Director […]
