A second wave of Swedish filmmakers would follow swiftly during the latter half of the Sixties. Mai Zetterling returned to roost where sh...

  C harles Chauvel (1897-1959) garnered outstanding success with Forty Thousand Horseman would mean that he was less able to continue his c...

  Ask the average person if they know who John Marley was and chances are their riposte will be 'Isn't that the guy who sang No Woma...

  T here was a time in Hollywood when they were undergoing a decided crisis and it was stage themed films that would come to the rescue, rea...

  R eleased just one year after Disney's 1941 dynamo, Dumbo , Bambi was a deer of an entirely different color. Bambi was as naturalist...

R aymond Chandler 's brainchild Philip Marlowe is a character of many faces. The Camel cigarette- puffing private-eye had a Hollywood Bo...

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...