Convinced people would always connect Raymond Chandler’s legendary detective Philip Marlowe with the iconic superstar Humphrey Bogart, Robert Altman wasn’t interested in making The Long…
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…
Vilmos Zsigmond and László Kovács, the Hungarian cinematographers who left an incredibly deep mark in Hollywood as they helped carve the visual identity of the…
Upon making Jaws, the first true blockbuster and a shocking money-maker, Steven Spielberg was under enormous pressure to produce a decent, equally bankable follow-up. Faced…
A stylish American thriller knee-deep in paranoia, Brian De Palma’s Blow Out is a neatly packed, thrill-ridden film executed on a level far beyond average…
The 1980 epic American Western Heaven’s Gate, a beautiful work and a film we hold in the greatest esteem, found its way into history books….
Confidently riding the waves generated by his highly successful satirical black comedy M*A*S*H, Robert Altman easily secured a directing job on the adaptation of Edmund…