In today’s guest post, classic film enthusiast Jennifer Berzin looks at a forgotten film by the legendary Ida Lupino.
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Movie Directors
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.
The Defiant One: For Stanley Kramer on His 100th
Since this September will mark the centenary for the maestro of the message movie, producer-director Stanley Kramer, we thought we’d offer up a retrospective of an often-controversial, and overall remarkable, body of work.
Read more →Schrader, Coppola, De Palma: When Film Brats Go Gray
Time was, they were the guys who were re-writing the rules. Lately, they’ve had to be the ones adjusting to the realities of sea changes to their industry and to their market. We’re looking at the latest efforts from Paul Schrader, Francis Ford Coppola, and Bran De Palma–which might have come to a theater near you.
Read more →Akira Kurosawa: An American Inspiration
Legendary Japanese film maker Akira Kurosawa began his illustrious 55-year career in 1936. Throughout that time, he earned a reputation for working harder than any other director; he was even known to perform dirty work like wiping down walls or…
Read more →The Gritty Cinema Of John Flynn
His name isn’t amongst the most readily identifiable, but director John Flynn turned out some flavorful, down-and-dirty action opuses over a three-decade-plus career in Hollywood. We’re celebrating Rolling Thunder, The Outfit, and more from his resume.
Read more →The Boorman Conquests: A Look Back at John’s Directing Career
His dynamic visual style has graced memorable efforts from Deliverance to Excalibur to The Emerald Forest over nearly a half-century of crafting feature films, and at 80 years young, he’s looking for new worlds to conquer. We’re looking back at the career of John Boorman, from the hits to the always-interesting misses.
Read more →Noting Hill: An Appreciation of Walter Hill
Walter Hill may not be back in the saddle, but he’s back in the movies again. That’s because the soon-to-be-72-year-old writer-director has Bullet to the Head, his first movie to open in theaters since the Wesley Snipes/Ving Rhames boxing yarn…
Read more →The William Desmond Taylor Murder Mystery
Today’s guest post that focuses on the unsolved killing of early film director William Desmond Taylor: When it comes to unsolved mysteries, the murder of William Desmond Taylor is one that continues to fascinate. There have been reams written about this case….
Read more →All About Aldrich
It’s been a mini-retrospective on DVD and Blu-ray of late for director Robert Aldrich. A number of films are being issued from the filmmaker best known for such mucho macho movies as The Dirty Dozen, Emperor of the North, and…
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