‘Sweet Smell of Success’: A Visceral and Vicious Depiction of the Evil that Power-Hungry Men Do
By Koraljka Suton There’s an old rule among directors that you see a film in its totality about four…
Ernest Lehman
‘North by Northwest’: Quite Possibly the Most Entertaining Hitchcock Ever
By Sven Mikulec I want to do a Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures, allegedly announced screenwriter Ernest…
‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ as One of the Most Accomplished Play Adaptations in Hollywood History
By Sven Mikulec Even though Edward Albee play ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ was a big Broadway hit, garnering…
‘Sweet Smell of Success’, Alexander Mackendrick’s Most Accomplished Film that Hasn’t Aged a Day
Tony Curtis had to fight really hard to get the role of Falco in Alexander Mackendrick’s Sweet Smell of Success….
Masterclass Interview: Alfred Hitchcock on Filmmaking
In this fantastic interview from a 1976 press conference for his final film, Family Plot, Alfred Hitchcock responds to a range…
“Yes, it’s a crop duster. We can plant some crops nearby”
The Cinematographer’s camera angles for the crop dusting sequence from Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest. All 61 bullet points (above)…