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...

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...

I t was clear that by the second half of the 1930s, that the quota had failed to create a flourishing industry, even the contributions of  M...

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

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 1980's boom in rock videos were aimed primarily at television audiences and was detrimental to the cinema feature, gone were the da...

L aughter is the surest of sellers, particularly when times are bleak, people crave comedy to give them reasons to be cheerful, and when the...

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...

T he  women of  Francois Truffaut  films almost always fall into three different categories - dream goddesses, mother figures or unabashed w...

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

W hen Shochiku superstar  Yasujiro Ozu  passed away on his own birthday in the year 1963 at the age of sixty it would mark the turning point...

C ostume dramas that were centered around family situations were very much the call of the mid-1930's day. On the strength of her succes...

The films of  Pietro Germi , whatever their ostensible backgrounds, were invariably preoccupied with questions of personal honor and allegia...

A nd like fellow Brooklyn gal,  Barbara Stanwyck ;  Susan Hayward,  born Edyth Marrener in 1917, came from that poorer side of town and stru...

I n Britain's post-war period, there was perhaps  no other film director more esteemed than  Carol Reed  (1906-1976). For three consecut...

O ne of Bergman's most familiar themes is the question of where the artist stands in society. And this tried and true tradition of his c...

I t was clear that by the second half of the 1930s, that the quota had failed to create a flourishing industry, even the contributions of  M...

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

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...