I f direct politics was not possible, a sort of indirect protest indeed was. This was most evident in the actions of America's so-called...

D uring the era that McCarthyism made a devastating impact on Hollywood, stars who had dallied with any other line of thought - and all such...

P erhaps the most diplomatic way to approach the shambling dinosaur-like movies of the Sixties is with a clear understanding that the indust...

L atin America's cinema, since the arrival of the first projectors and films at the turn of the century, was completely dominated from a...

D irectors  Girish Karnad  (1938-2019)   and the late  B.V. Karnath  (1929-2002) would both co-create and turn out their own respective film...

L ong before  Ziegfeld Follies  was finished in 1945, a film which took two whole years before it would even come to its fruition,  Ziegfeld...

A fter  Yasujiro Ozu 's acknowledgement of the fragmentation of the traditional group ethic in 1947's  The Record of a Tenement Gent...

J ohn Boorman   (b.1933) started out as a documentarian and among a group of television-trained directors who matriculated to the cinema in ...

A fter the wild days of the  Marx Brothers  transitioned to mild during their 1930s era at the magnanimous MGM, it was one  Buster Keaton  w...

I t was a great loss to the French film industry when director  Jean Vigo  left the earth in 1934 at the age of twenty-nine. Vigo was unargu...

P roducer and financier Sir  Michael Balcon  had a connection to Ealing that dated back to 1938, when he took over the post from  Basil Dean...