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...

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

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...

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

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

  A mong the great emigres that emerged in Tinseltown by the Thirties, was  William Wyler . A consummate professional and perfectionist who ...

T he erudite  Alexander Kluge  (b. 1932) began with a profound admiration for the work of  Jean - Luc Godard  which was undoubtedly reflecte...

O ne of the most innovative, irreverent and iconoclastic souls ever to grace television's waves was  Ernest Edward Kovacs . This man in ...

I t was the 1970s, in my humble opinioniation that marked the golden age of the televisual 'tec and when it came to the sister silvers, ...

E lia Kazan  brought the actress to light, when he would cast  Carroll Baker  in the screen adaptation of the transfixing Tennessee Williams...

  D uring the latter half of the 1940s, the sardonic tones of the music were a device that intended to jar the nerves of the moviegoer, whil...

W eirdsville is perhaps a town that remains unlisted on that folded up map you have tucked away  inside of your glove compartment, but in ci...

M ike Nichols  (1931-2014) initially earned his gilded reputation when he partnered with  Elaine   May  (b.1932). first in the nightclub cir...

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...