It's a Jarmusch-y World; We're Just Living in it.
When someone asks me who some of my favorite directors are, I forget to include Jim Jarmusch. What, I ask, i...
Halloween's own Prince of Darkness
Of course we all know John Carpenter. Starting with Halloween, his movies have never just been The Fog, or Christine, or In ...
Catching up With the Dancing Director's Musical and Not-so-Musical Major Career
Photo by: Mary Evans/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection
When you talk about St...
The Cinema Auteur of India Rewards Discovery
The word “humanist” gets thrown around a lot in cinema discourse. Used to describe filmmakers with compassionate w...
Our Summer with Ingmar, at 100
Confession: I had intended to write a long piece this July observing the 100th anniversary of the birth of Swedish film dire...
As Controversial as he is Celebrated, the Spanish Auteur Continues to Live up to his Reputation
One of my favorite facts about Pedro Almodóvar, aside from his ...
Golden Age Hollywood Staple Makes it Look Easy
Anyone who looked at something special, in a very original way, makes you see it that way forever.
– George C...
Iconic Star of Few Words is a Prolific Director of Fewer Takes
Eastwood after the 65th Academy Awards
Clint Eastwood was famously a nobody before he got to...
Myth Maker. Film Noir Pioneer. Expressionist Prophet?
Fritz Lang. The monocoled genius of the screen.
I first encountered Lang in a beat-up copy of Metropol...
The Diversified, Decades-Long Hollywood Flight of Howard Hawks
There are no shortages of great Hollywood directors, but Howard Hawks stands above them. No othe...