Every movie needs a Director. The movie director section of Moviefanfare.com narrows our scope to just movie directors. We profile the great directors of the Golden Age of Hollywood and B Movie Directors that are unknown. Polls about movie directors as well as interviews with some of the great directors making films today.
An item in a recent article mentioned a film that was being made called The Angriest Man in Brooklyn. The story is promising: A misinformed doctor (Mila Kunis) tells an annoying patient (Robin Williams) he has 90 minutes to live….
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From out of the trenches of Bat Mitzvah videos, the depths of the Internet, and even the grimy street corners of North Philadelphia came Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim. College friends since they met at Philly’s Temple University in the…
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It was in the old Cheltenham Theater in the mid-1970s, with the pungent smells of fried chicken and Lysol wafting through the aisles, that I first got acquainted with David Cronenberg. I was definitely in the “horror movie phase” of…
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Out of the cycle of 1970s buddy cop action comedies like The Super Cops, Cops and Robbers and Freebie and the Bean comes Busting, a 1974 effort soon releasing on DVD. Elliott Gould and Robert Blake play the Los Angeles…
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Nicholas Ray was a tough guy who made tough films like They Drive by Night, Rebel Without a Cause, In a Lonely Place, The Lusty Men, On Dangerous Ground, The Savage Innocents and 55 Days at Peking. Schooled in architecture…
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The rumbling on this Tuesday in late August came out of nowhere, shaking the hotel like a wooden paint stirrer in a blender. Writer-director Sean Durkin, attending a press day for to promote his film Martha Marcy May Marlene, darted…
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At the memorable end of 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Yankee bank robbers Butch (Paul Newman) and Sundance (Robert Redford) face off against scores of sharp-shooting lawmen and soldiers in Bolivia. After Butch informs Sundance that the bandit…
Read more →This is not as easy as it sounds, but it is fun. Think of your favorite movie directors: How many of them would you say have helmed not one, not two or three…but five great films in a row? Sure,…
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From the days of silent film, there were women directing the action from behind the camera, but their early contributions to the industry have been ignored or otherwise unheralded, in large part, over the ensuing years. Quite a few female…
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The independent film trenches are fraught with war stories. Some have unhappy endings, with directors overwhelmed with the demands they encounter, and the finished film—if it gets completed—sometimes turns out nothing like their original version. One common scenario has a…
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