This is the grave of Frank Borzage. Born in 1894 in Salt Lake City, Utah, Frank Borzaga was the son of a Italian immigrant miner and his Swiss wife. There's a lot more coal mining in Utah than you think, even today, so it made...
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I personally loathe nostalgia in a quite visceral way. I legitimately feel that a huge part of my job as a historian is a war on nostalgia, especially in the.
This is the grave of Darryl Zanuck. Born in 1902 in the ridiculously named town of Wahoo, Nebraska, Zanuck moved with his mother to Los Angeles in 1908. The reason.
This is the grave of Adolph Zukor. Born in 1873 in Ricse, in what is today Hungary, Zukor grew up in a middling Jewish family. His father ran a store. When his father died, Zukor and family moved in with an uncle who was a...
This would be a horrible loss to the film community. It’s not every day that Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Thomas Anderson team up. But IndieWire has learned they.
A friend of mine who is also an occasional commenter here noted privately in response to my Casino post from the other day that Scorsese just makes the same movie.
Poster for Norman Jewison's 1967 film In the Heat of the Night
Publicity photo for the 2001 "film" Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
Hollywood is mostly a union town but when new sides of the industry develop, they have to be organized too and they often aren't. You saw that with the video.
Julia Reichert, 2011, photo credit Seth Bauguess, Wright State University Julia Reichert, a significant figure in documentary filmmaking and progressive politics and the arts here in the Dayton area, has passed. I was pleased to see she was deemed to warrant a significant NYT obituary,...
Well, I have now never seen the Greatest Film of All Time(TM). I guess I need to fix that. I have seen one or two Akerman films and found them.
This is the grave of Sam Spiegel. Born in 1901 in Jaroslaw, Poland (though it was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), Spiegel grew up in a wealthy Jewish household..