The legendary David Milch—acclaimed writer-producer of Hill Street Blues, Brooklyn South, NYPD Blue, Deadwood, John from Cincinnati, Luck—gave a series of lectures at the Writers…
There are probably only a handful of storytellers of David Lynch’s caliber in the world today. From Eraserhead to Inland Empire, the Montana-born emperor of…
When it comes to the significant authors who indebted the world of film, there are important directors. There are very important directors. And then there’s…
Frank Darabont talks about his childhood as a refugee and immigrant; his youthful attraction to horror and fantasy; and the events and influences that lead…
Celebrated as one of the most original American films of all time, Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets holds a firm place among the best crime films…
Roman Polanski’s arguably only romance film, Tess, is one his critically best accepted works, and the performance of 18-year-old Nastassja Kinski, along with Paris, Texas,…
In 1983, during the production of John Cassavetes’s Love Streams, journalist Michael Ventura was hired by Cannon Films executive Menahem Golan to make a promotional…
The paranoid, skeptical, post-Watergate America gave birth to Sydney Pollack’s first-class thrilller Three Days of the Condor. The film, carried out on the shoulders of…
Robert Altman’s Short Cuts is not only one of the more enticing films of the fruitful nineties, but also a work of art we simply…
The neo-noir boxing drama that finally reinstated John Huston on the road of financial success after a series of box office disappointments, Fat City is…