Martin Keady

Film is essentially a visual medium, so it stands to reason that there should be a plethora of fine films…

Writing is the loneliest profession: ultimately, it involves being alone in a room while trying to create a whole universe.…

It is often said that theater is the actor’s medium whereas cinema is the director’s medium: it is on stage…

No other art-form does “self-referential” as well as cinema. That is because for all the appeal of the “auteur” theory…

In a way, the Billy Wilder story is a tale of two Bills. Billy’s first name was actually Samuel, but…

Has there ever been a father-son double act to rival that of Auguste and Jean Renoir? It is a rule…

For many years, I didn’t know what the term “nouvelle vague” meant. A new kind of vagueness, or uncertainty? Even…

Noir is the darkest genre. Even more than horror, it explores the deepest, most hidden recesses of the human psyche,…

The influence of Shakespeare extends to every art form, as other writers, composers and artists have adapted or transposed his…

The career of Orson Welles is perhaps the most singular in the history of cinema: at once utterly magnificent and…