O ne of the most controversial figures to emerge in the cinema of the 1970's was Lina Wertmuller (1928-2021) (who got her start the prec...

W hether reactionary, like Walking Tall , or liberal like the Virgil Tibbs series, all these films eulogized their police heroes. But this...

W hen it came to the mechanics of suspense, there was perhaps no better technician than Mr. Alfred Hitchcock. The central figures in Hitchco...

A nd much like Sidney Lumet , director John Frankenheimer (1930 - 2002) would spend most of the 1950s directing live television drama and w...

I n Bernardo Bertolucci's  Last Tango In Paris , which was the director's most prurient film while simultaneously being his most suc...

A nd by the mid-1960's  those little American boys who wanted to grow up and become cowboys would give up on those dreams, once the spy ...

T he overarching agenda of neo-realist filmmaker  Francesco Rosi  was to portray the life of Italy, to examine the forces at work in the nat...

K en Annakin  (1914-2009) was the journeyman director of 1965's  Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines  and  Monte Carlo Or Bus...

O f the several directors and producers of American International Pictures,  Roger Corman  was clearly the most brilliant. Corman, who produ...

  T o know  Rainer Werner Fassbinder  is to know that most of his canon was a subtle pastiche, a paean to another Teutonic trickster in the ...

In 1960, Fukui born director and screenwriter  Yoshishige Yoshida  (1933-2022), who is known in certain circles as one  Kiju Yoshida  would ...

I n the latter Fifties, the teenage tragedy was very much the calling card of American International Pictures (AIP), films liked  Dragstrip ...

T he huge mass of Christian homilies which form the bulk of Hollywood's output were generally dramatized in the form of pious zealots ve...

I n the summer of 1949, Rank's close to 90 million pounds empire had a whopping 37 million pounds overdraft and took a loss of over over...

D irector  Derek Jarman  (1942-1994) was a true punk and iconoclast who at heart was a fantasist. His influences include  Michael Powell ,  ...

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...