There are those wonderful, albeit rare occasions when you are sent a script and immediately a sense of excitement overtakes you. Such was the case in 1997 when Wes Anderson …
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Over time, I realized I was married to an alcoholic. For me, Leaving Las Vegas was the film that most moved me in my adult life. Nicolas Cage plays Ben, …
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Will Hunting made a choice to leave his comfort zone and follow his heart to California. He ‘had to go see about a girl.’ At the end of 1997, I …
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Viewing the shower scene for the first time, I don’t think I was aware of its status as one of the most famous sequences in cinematic history. Little did I …
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Things are not always what they originally appear to be. Throughout life, our experiences shape our personal growth.
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Unlike many of my colleagues, I did not grow up a film nut. I was a sports nut, particularly baseball, and following my parents’ lead, a Gershwin, Sinatra and Broadway …
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I have always been envious of those who came to the business because of their love and passion for films. I was born into the film industry and didn’t appreciate …
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Vittorio de Sica’s Ladri di Biciclette (the Bicycle Thief-1948)
by uncreditedby uncreditedRemarkably, De Sica doesn’t waste any time on setting the scene or on the family’s backstory in this act. He deems the viewer intelligent enough to take clues from the …
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Warner Bros. released Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch, firing a warning shot to the older generation that they better change with the times or risk irrelevance.
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‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ is a dark and redemptive tragicomedy of a “family of geniuses.”