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A relaxed documentary exploring the career of Michael Powell is available to watch on YouTube now. Best known for his rich professional relationship with Emeric Pressburger (collectively known as “the Archers”), collaborators, technicians, performers and family paint a picture of
Fabula and Syuzhet are a set of Russian terms where, as far as English-speakers are concerned, their Russian-twang handily outweighed their usefulness. Formalists Vladimir Propp and Viktor Shklovsky coined the terminology in the early 20th century, when very few forms
With each film in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them series earning less than the last, it seems that Warner Bros. has managed to squander the potential of the Wizarding World, previously one of their most successful properties.
We are not so far removed from a time when Westerns were inescapable, from serials meant to keep kids busy for a few hours to the towering John Ford classics topping critics’ polls today, only to vanish in earnest. These
Considering the rate at which Quentin Tarantino intravenously injects films from every country on earth, every year imaginable, and of every quality level endurable, it’s a wonder he ever gets around to making films of his own. He’s been on
The Impact is a crowd-created film produced and directed by Chris Jones, based on the experimental concept project Impact50. Co-author of the prolific Guerilla Film Makers Handbook and head of the London Screenwriters’ Festival, Jones spearheaded this film, which saw
*Spoiler alert* ….for a set of films you’ve had as long to see as Tom Cruise has had to be alive. Both Psycho and The City of the Dead (also known as Horror Hotel in the U.S.), two films whose
On August 22nd , 1972, three armed men held the employees of the Chase Manhattan Bank at 450 Avenue P in Brooklyn hostage for 14 hours. The first of the men fled early on at the sight of a police
The Magnificent Seven, in remaking Seven Samurai, borrows so much DNA from its source, it’s surprising to consider how much less impactful it is, while still being a classic in its own right. Kurosawa’s Western influences made a relocation from
“At what stage of the screenwriting process would you say it’s time to start thinking about selling?” “At no stage. You should never think of it, that’s why we have agents.” So says Richard Walter, author and 40-year chairman of