Biopics constitute one of the great staples of cinema, with filmmakers producing movies about virtually every famous or even semi-famous…
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It is fitting that the 50th anniversary of 1974, probably the greatest year in screenwriting and arguably the greatest year in all…
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In the arts, some years are sacred. For example, historians regard 1874 as the year modern art began, 1971 was…
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In a way, film noir is the great anti-genre of cinema, the one type of film that defiantly resists the…
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Perhaps it is the publication of Peter Biskind’s new book, Pandora’s Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies That Broke Television, that…
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Technically, The English is a miniseries, because it consists of just six one-hour episodes. In reality, however, there is absolutely nothing “mini”…
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If the idea of the Good Guy Turned Bad is arguably the most important theme in all storytelling (especially all Western storytelling),…
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What makes a great film director? Is it, as Orson Welles suggested, just one really great film, or is it…
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His surname sounded like the name for a movie theatre, so it was entirely fitting that Sidney Lumet should become…
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There is a terrible irony in trying to determine exactly when the first movie camera was invented, namely that it…
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