Many rightly attribute Taxi Driver’s success to screenwriter Paul Schrader, director Martin Scorsese, and method leading man Robert De Niro—together they forge a Holy Trinity…
It was sometime in 1980 when Orson Welles finally sat down and agreed to watch The Magnificent Ambersons, giving in to his persuasive colleague and…
The film that started out as a critical failure, labeled as the weakest link in the maestro’s string of high-quality cinematic treats, over time developed…
The image of a shabby motel in the middle of nowhere, by-passed by any relevant roads and inhabited by disturbing, weird or antisocial characters. The…
Released in the late summer of 1976, more than a year since the end of production due to Columbia Pictures minor objections to some of…
It took a long time for Hollywood to convince Orson Welles to come to the dark side. Welles was in love with theater, and as…
I want to do a Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures, allegedly announced screenwriter Ernest Lehman, after his friend, composer Bernard Herrmann recommended him…