Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” clearly resonated with Guillermo del Toro, as he listed the Japanese film as his favorite movie in 2010. While there are no monsters to be found in the film, it’s not exactly realism either, and its foggy, mysterious setting helps keep the focus on […]
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Movie Stardom: Biblio Basinger, Jeanine Dyer, Richard. Films, Stars, and Society, 1986 Gillette, Don Carlo. Formula for Stardom. 195o Morin, Edgar, The Stars. NY: Grove, 1960 out of print Walker, Alexander Share this:
