Interview

Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver’ is the turning point in our lives in terms of film appreciation and education

Martin Scorsese’s 74th birthday seems like a perfect opportunity to float in our minds to the streets of New York,…

9 years ago

The ‘angry young man’ of Hollywood, Rod Serling became something of a personal hero to us

The 'angry young man' of Hollywood, Rod Serling became something of a personal hero to us. An acclaimed television writer,…

9 years ago

Steven Soderbergh is one of the most articulate and fascinating thinkers on film out there

Steven Soderbergh is definitely somewhere at the top of our list of filmmakers with whom we'd like to sit down…

10 years ago

“I’m planning a psychological film, it’s called Psycho and it’s in the nature of, shall we say, a rather gentle horror picture”

Desert Island Discs is a biographical and factual radio programme, broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It was first broadcast on…

10 years ago

“Michael Cimino’s ‘The Deer Hunter’ is one of the most emotionally shattering films ever made”

  By Sven Mikulec   Try not to look for symbolism in the movie, because there is none. There’s no…

10 years ago

“The best education in film is to make one. I would advise any neophyte director to try to make a film by himself. A three-minute short will teach him a lot”

Stanley Kubrick actually made the transition from photography to film after reading Vsevolod Pudovkin’s Film Technique. Pudovkin was a Russian film director, screenwriter…

10 years ago

“These lectures have taught me more than anything I’ve yet come across in my life”

The legendary David Milch—acclaimed writer-producer of Hill Street Blues, Brooklyn South, NYPD Blue, Deadwood, John from Cincinnati, Luck—gave a series…

10 years ago

“You have to let me play Frank! Because I am Frank!”

There are probably only a handful of storytellers of David Lynch's caliber in the world today. From Eraserhead to Inland…

10 years ago

Krzysztof Kieslowski was a giant of the cinema and a crusader for humanity

  By Sven Mikulec When it comes to the significant authors who indebted the world of film, there are important…

10 years ago

“If you have a dream, get up off your ass and start putting one foot in front of the other”

Frank Darabont talks about his childhood as a refugee and immigrant; his youthful attraction to horror and fantasy; and the…

10 years ago