A nd to expand on the theme of directors of the New German Cinema, today I will enlighten you all on another of its proponents in the name o...

T he poetry and genius of the British documentary movement was without a doubt,  Humphrey Frank Sinkler Jennings  (1907-1950) whose films wi...

D uring the 1950's there were various television journalists who veered away from their usual methods of illustrating lectures and would...

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

  B lacklisted auteur of auteurs  Jules Dassin  (1911-2008) during the time there was no need for any extra red-tape on the dispenser, turne...

I n his own particularly austere manner,  Robert Bresson  (1901-1999) continued his lonely pursuit of cinematic grace in  Le Journal d'u...

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...

B orn Alfred Reginald Jones in Neath Port Talbot in 1907,  Ray Milland,  inherently athletic would spend a good portion of his youth involvi...

I n the year 1921. Mack Sennett established and founded Mack Sennett Inc, and would release his films through First National. In 1923, he wo...

  A lexander Astruc  (1923-2016) was a seemingly academic director who was of greater significance to film history as the author of the infl...

T he Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 was a relatively swift reaction to the Prague Spring inaugurated by the reform leadershi...

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

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 na...