Today She’s Nobody’s Baby: American Women In The 20th Century (1981) is an all but forgotten two-part television special. Hosted by Marlo Thomas and Alan Alda, the film charts eighty… Read more »
“Wake up. Stop hiding” is the plea of an inmate that closes Cinda Firestone’s film Attica (1974). Firestone’s documentary Attica was made in the immediate wake of that infamous tragedy… Read more »
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields (2022) is a Netflix original documentary series about the Calder Road murders. In the mid-eighties Clyde Hedricks murdered several young women and dumped their… Read more »
I grew up when the last steel mills in the Pittsburgh area were closing down. With a majority of my extended family living in Pittsburgh it became a topic that… Read more »
During the opening of Django & Django (2021) Quentin Tarantino reveals that after completing his film Inglourious Basterds (2009) he contemplated writing a book on the westerns of Sergio Corbucci…. Read more »
Ethan Hawke’s six-part documentary series on Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward The Last Movie Stars (2022) is framed around the transcripts that screenwriter Stewart Stern made of interviews he conducted… Read more »
Dziga Vertov’s Three Songs About Lenin (1934) is a documentary feature that was made to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Vladimir Lenin’s death. Vertov was commissioned to make Three Songs… Read more »
“…then they discovered cinema and slowly we became friends.” – Danièle Huillet Où gît votre sourire enfoui? (2001), or in english Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?, is a filmed… Read more »
Pierwsza miłość (1974) is a made for television docudrama written and directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski. The film follows Jadwiga (age 17) and her boyfriend Roman (age 20) in the wake… Read more »
With regards to special effects Industrial Light & Magic has been the cutting edge and industry standard since George Lucas founded it in 1975 to work on his film Star… Read more »