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...
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...
Academy Award Winning Director of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST and AMADEUS, 1932-2018
Jeffrey Knight
There was no way you were going to convince 13-year-ol...
Sometimes, They Say, A Door Is Just A Door...
DIRECTED BY: HOWARD HAWKS/1959
In conjunction with Film Admissions - Howard Hawks
A movie about doors. Yes....
Nobody's Perfect, but Some are Closer Than Others, Filmmaking-wise
In the early 2000s I was producing a radio show that had Richard Dreyfuss on as a guest. As...
Robert fell into the movie trap at 7 with Ray Harryhausen, advanced through the Marxes, the Coens, Hawks, Spielberg, and Truffaut, and now loves too many to possibly list. He’ll watch an old movie before a new one every time, and a comedy before a drama, but mostly he’ll watch just about anything. He’s a writer in L.A., where he lives with his wife, who knows all about his crush on Myrna Loy.
