I n 1950's Hollywood all of the on-screen rebels were of the male-persuasion. However inarticulate and unfocused it may have been, male ...

T he first proper serial was the Selig Polyscope Company's The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913) a vehicle for Kathlyn Williams , a damsel w...

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 ...

D irector Jean Marie Straub (1933-2022) and his late wife Danielle Huillet (1936-2006), were one of cinema's most dynamic duos and coll...

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...

A lthough more public and critical attention of Italian cinema has been paid to the epics and historical/mythological pepla films, the sword...

A theater director who made fourteen of his sixteen films between the years 1929 and 1942, Rouben Mamoulian (1897-1987 ) was a pioneer in t...

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...

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

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

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...