So all-encompassing is Stanley Kubrick’s influence on cinema that he is sometimes described as “the Shakespeare of Cinema.” The comparison…
Noir – the four-letter genre. And there is certainly something dark, something dirty, about noir. It is an investigation (literally and metaphorically)…
It must be the best job imaginable: being paid to watch movies and write about them. And for most of…
The pure writer-director (someone who exclusively writes and directs their own movies) probably does not exist. Cinema is such an…
Hitchcock famously said, “To make a great film you need three things – the script, the script and the script!”…
It would have been easier (for which read “saner”) simply to have called this piece, Forty Great Screenplays, because in…
Perhaps the clue is in the name. For much of the 1970’s (and a period in the 1990’s, when he…
Perhaps it is because movies are supposed to confer immortality (movie “stars” are so-called because, like the heavenly spheres themselves,…
The 1980’s may have been the decade of the blockbuster, but there were still films that didn’t rely on mindless…
“Morning – the birth of each day’s life,” as Shakespeare almost put it. But morning can also be the death of…
