Julia Reichert: Pioneering, Oscar-Winning Documentarian (American Factory) Dies at 76

Julia Reichert’s films, including Growing Up Female and Union Maids, centered on the women’s movement and American labor.

Movie Stars: Labeouf, Shia–Circling around Major Stardom

SHIA LABEOUF was most seen starring in the action war drama Fury, alongside Brad Pitt and Logan Lerman. Directed by David Ayer, the film follows a tank crew in Nazi Germany during the final days of World War II. In 2013, he starred in Lars von Trier’s drama, Nymphomaniac, a film about a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac […]

Death in Hollywood: Hellinger, Mark–Film Producer (The Killers)

Mark Hellinger provided the story for the 1939 Raoul Walsh gangster film The Roaring Twenties, starring Cagney and Bogart, based on his own experiences during that decade.

Oscar Directors: Scorsese, Martin–Auteur, Vision, Sensibility

Research in progress, Nov 22, 2022 Kolker: There are unashamed self-consciousness and self-reflexivity in Scorsese’s work. The construction of his film goes beyond the narrative and setting, it’s never in service of the plot or the viewers expectations. There’s kinetic energy at work that threatens to overtake the story. His films involve antagonism and struggles, […]

Causeway: Director Lila Neugebauer on Making her Film, Directing Oscar Winner Jennifer Lawrence

Alongside star Jennifer Lawrence, the helmer assembled theater vets, including Brian Tyree Henry, for the Apple drama.   Causeway director Lila Neugebauer. AUSTIN HARGRAVE “Permanence was a new reckoning,” says Lila Neugebauer of directing Apple’s soulful film Causeway. The director, 37, had made a name for herself in New York in the past decade for helming […]