Directors: Careers–Output
Research in Progress: June 27, 2021 Directors: Careers–Output (Prolific) Prolific directors of the studio era, with large bodies of work: George Cukor Michael Curtiz John Ford Henry Hathaway Howard Hawks Alfred Hitchcock Mervyn LeRoy King Vidor Raoul Walsh William Wellman Indie Directors Soderbergh Foreign Directors Fassbinder Godard Thus, measured in terms of quantity […]
Film: Middlebrow Sensibility
Research in Progress: June 26, 2021 Film: Middlebrow Sensibility They are often feel-good inspirational features about serious issues and noble heroes. Triumph of the spirit and will against all odds. Films that don’t actively use their visual registry to produce meaning Liberal films that do nothing in terms of visual elaboration to compensate for their […]
Thief Who Came to Dinner, The: Bud Yorkin’s Heist Comedy, Starring Ryan O’Neal and Jacqueline Bisset
Bud Yorkin directed The Thief Who Came to Dinner, a heist comedy, based on the novel by Terrence Lore Smith, starring Ryan O’Neal and Jacqueline Bisset.
Incitement: Israeli Yaron Zilberman’s Dramatic Thriller about 1993 Assassination of Premier Rabin
Israeli filmmaker Yaron Zilberman follows up A Late Quartet with Incitement, a recreation of the days leading up to Orthodox Jewish law student Yigal Amir’s assassination of then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin for his role in the Oslo peace process.
Timbuktu (1959): Jacques Tourneur’s Adventure, Starring Victor Mature and Yvonne de Carlo
In one of his last assignments, Jacques Tourneur directed Timbuktu, an adventure starring Victor Mature and Yvonne de Carlo.
Directors: Definition of Filmmaking as Profession; Craftsmen Vs. Artists
Margarethe Von Trotta: “Talent is something, but what it really takes is perseverance and not giving up too easily.”
In the Heights: Right Movie at Right Time
The movie is one big block party, thrown in honor of the Latino immigrant experience.
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Indie Companies: Neon–Rich, Exciting Film Slate (Cannes Film Fest 2021)
Neon has three titles at the festival this year: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, starring Tilda Swinton, Julia Ducournau’s Titane, and the anthology feature “The Year of the Everlasting Storm.”