By 1965, the studio heads were all over 60 years old—Adolph Zukor, on the board at Paramount, was over 90. Hollywood’s golden age had faded…
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You might recall hearing some alien sounds echoing around the room that Dave finds himself in. There was a time when we might have…
So, Martin Scorsese’s nearly thirty-year passion project, Silence, has finally been released. Silence had been in development with Scorsese since 1990 when he signed…
Kubrick: “You can say a lot of things about what it should be you know what should be. You know, it should be an…
A change was about to take place in Hollywood by the end of the 50s. The Paramount Antitrust case had broken up the film…
Much like The French New Wave, a new movement was developing in Italian cinema in the aftermath of World War II, but instead of…
It’s 1946, World War II has ended and so has Nazi censorship in France. Foreign films once again flood French cinemas, but not only…
That dark stylish beauty synonymous with directors like Guillermo del Toro and Tim Burton has its roots in Germany during the 1910s, 20s, and 30s.…
David Lean’s exotic 1957 Opus, Bridge on the River Kwai is considered by many to be one of the greatest tales committed to film.…