Film History

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. 

The John Ford film proved just as inspirational, and true to the “This Land Is Your Land” philosophy of Guthrie.  It is still considered one of the great works of …

“Hugh Hudson is a brilliant and underrated director, but very difficult to work with.  He didn’t cooperate with the studios; he was cutting out the stuff they wanted in and …

“I try to cut every film I do with a fresh eye; I don’t go with a pattern or anything.  I just read it, assimilate it and cut it.” – …

Viera’s fine history provides an insightful look into this legendary producer.

La Dolce Vita. For 50 years, since the Federico Fellini movie was released in January 1960, those three words have been synonymous with delicious deca- dence among a jet-set mix …

Starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, Rain Man opened 21 years ago this December. It made a lot of money and won a lot of awards, including the Academy Award …

If you think that unwrapping the mysteries of transcoding file-based camera footage provides its challenges, you will find the post-production workflow on Avatar either very scary, or a completely visionary …

In the early 1950s, the film industry, hoping to lure audiences back into theatres from their new TV sets, created more movies in color and introduced widescreen formats that could …

My father, the late actor/director Ray Danton, was a gifted man. He was handsome, had a baritone voice, stood over six feet and weighed a chiseled 190 pounds in his …