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The Daily
Jan 19, 2024 — We’ve been reading about Francis Ford Coppola, James Baldwin, Chantal Akerman, and Cary Grant and Randolph Scott’s barely kept secret.
Jul 18, 2018 — Alan Rudolph is a pioneer in the American independent film movement. He has directed nineteen narrative features and one feature-length documentary. His films have been presented in major international festivals for forty years and are noted for their fluid style,...
The Daily
Jul 16, 2018 — Burning Secret would have been an adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s 1913 novella.
Short Takes
Aug 22, 2016 — “I’ve never made any secret of the fact that at least 50 percent of my reason for writing can be blamed on Shelagh Delaney,” the singer-songwriter once said. Gathered here are some of his most prominent references to the English...
Mar 10, 2003 — The Swedish director of I Am Curious explains how he fused the themes of eroticism, self-exploration, voyeurism, and nonviolence into a film about the new freedoms of the young. QUESTION: I Am Curious seemed to be a cinematic Tristram Shandy,...
Feb 10, 2003 — The poet Paul Eluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car. Ordinarily, I would settle for that. However, with so much being written about the film...
Features
Mar 25, 2024 — What makes a “bad” movie anyway? By surveying the bombs, disasters, and secret masterpieces (dis)honored at the Golden Raspberry Awards, we can learn much about American cinema’s prevailing standards of taste.
Features
Dec 30, 2013 — Charlie Chaplin’s comedy has a secret ingredient that has bound us to him forever.
Alex Segura is the best-selling and award-winning author of the crime novels Alter Ego and Secret Identity. He has also written a number of comic books, including Star Wars, Dick Tracy, and The Question: All Along the Watchtower. His next...
Jeb Brody joined Amblin Partners in 2017 and is currently president of production. He and Holly Bario oversee films produced under the company’s Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures banners, where he recently executive produced the Academy Award-nominated 1917 and the...