Interview

‘A Passage to India’: David Lean’s Rocky Road to Creating a Most Powerful Adaptation

In 1924 E.M. Forster published his highly acclaimed novel A Passage to India. Exactly sixty years later David Lean's film…

9 years ago

‘The Producers’: An Unyieldingly Entertaining Satire that Launched Mel Brooks’ Career

The American 1968 dark comedy The Producers was written and directed by the one and only Mel Brooks, the absolute…

9 years ago

‘Ryan’s Daughter’: The Proof of David Lean’s Versatility

After working together on the giant adaptation of Doctor Zhivago, legendary British director David Lean and respected screenwriter Robert Bolt…

9 years ago

Jane Campion’s ‘The Piano’: An Inquisitive Study of Eroticism Disguised as a Victorian Love Story

  By Sven Mikulec   The film is inspired by Gothic Romantic writing, partially takes place in the delicate and…

9 years ago

Michael Cimino’s ‘Year of the Dragon’ is one of the most significant action movies of the period

Oliver Stone at one point described Michael Cimino as “the most Napoleonic director he ever worked with.” This impression was…

9 years ago

Orson Welles takes the hot seat in this in-depth and revealing interview from 1955

Writer, film and theatre director, Orson Welles takes the hot seat in this in-depth and revealing interview. First transmitted in…

9 years ago

Peter Bogdanovich’s ‘Paper Moon’ is a treasure to come back to even after all these years

Charming, kind of melancholy, deeply poignant and above all touching and heart-warming, Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon is a classic period…

9 years ago

Aspirations of a Promising Filmmaker: A Conversation With Nicolas Delgado

Nicolas Delgado, whose The Macabre World of Lavender Williams really delighted us a while ago, had a little chat with us…

9 years ago

Nicolas Roeg’s ‘Don’t Look Now’ is a special kind of a supernatural thriller that aptly deals with subjects far from supernatural

  By Sven Mikulec Set in the dream-like landscape of the mesmerizing city of Venice painted in dark, somber tones,…

9 years ago

Walter Hill’s screenplay for ‘The Driver’ is the best screenwriting school you can get

Walter Hill's The Driver can definitely be labeled as another one of this great professional’s stories with strong, masculine protagonists…

9 years ago