I nspired by Noh theatre and Kabuki, tokusatsu is a genre that is still alive and kicking today, graced its presence in the 1950s when its f...

O ne of the most notable promotions to direction from among the ranks of screenwriters was that of  Paul Schrader  (b.1946), an erstwhile cr...

T he 1940's would see the last outpost of the good guys versus bad guys formula when film noir made it's presence well and truly fel...

Mel Brooks  (b.1926) an erstwhile nightclub comedian who ventured into television writing, where he would cut his teeth on several series, o...

C arl Theodor Dreyer  (1889-1968) had a career that spanned a near six decades though his work never caught the public imagination in the sa...

T hough three-strip Technicolor was being utilized by Paramount and sister studios on outdoor subjects it would not be utilized in Westerns ...

W here  William S. Hart  prided himself on the authenticity of his pictures, those of  Tom Mix  (1880-1940) were pure unadulterated fantasy....

D isney studios would survive the war years by producing war and training films for the government and executed among other subjects the mob...

H arry Langdon   (1884-1994), with the assistance of the directors   Harry Edwards   and   Frank Capra , produced films that now rank as mas...

W hen it comes to the American musical, the man who would stake his claim to being responsible for the biggest production numbers in the his...

A t times he was a lovable lout, a curmudgeon with charm, the gentlest of giants and never left home without his acerbic tongue. A definitiv...

C all  Rod Steiger  a character actor and never expect another Christmas card from the man again and given the actor would secure awards for...

I talian-born cinematographer  Nicholas Musuraca  (1892-1975) was a shadowy yet truly exalted figure of film noir and despite the longevity ...

T he utilization of flashback in film noir is one of the genre's most crucial devices. Given the main action has already taken place and...

I n 1972, the statutes of the Film Reform of 1963 were amended so as to give more active encouragement to production with grants being being...

D irector  Shirley Clarke  (1925 - 1997) was known and revered for her approaches to and takes on the ghetto sub-culture. Her impressive fea...

N yrki Tapiovaara , who was killed at the age of 28 behind Russian lines just before the end of the Winter War would acquire a posthumous re...

I n 1926, Sergei Eisenstein returned to Leningrad to direct Oktyabr ( October ,1927) and the city where he had lived through the first eigh...

I n his three years at Warners, director  William A. Wellman  (1896-1975) would turn out an impressive seventeen pre-code films, most notabl...

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...