Film History

“The last thing we needed to hear,” writes Anthony D’Alessandro in Deadline Hollywood, “as the box office and exhibition were rebounding from the pandemic was a piece of bad news, …

How a Kid Found the Heart in “Harold And Maude.”

Officials at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures were busy talking about the past — not only Oscar history, but the whole history of movies — as plans were revealed for …

“Bobby is the kind of guy who could do just about anything,” one colleague says.

Early cinema is often remembered as an exclusively black-and-white affair, diametrically opposed to the vibrant menagerie of colors afforded by today’s 4K television sets. But in fact, an estimated 80 percent …

In better times than these, Hollywood’s charities were a lifeline for thousands of industry workers in need of a little help just to get by. In 2020, that need exploded …

It was the summer of 1974, and for my  sister and me, there was a gross injustice in the world. I could tell you that the injustice involved saving the …

Director David Fincher commanded his own army of Foley artists, dialog editors and sound specialists for his iconoclastic biographical portrait of the screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman).

“Hollywood has repeatedly written its own obituary,” writes Brook Barnes in The New York Times. “It died when Star Wars (1977) and Superman (1978) turned movies into toy advertisements. The 1980s (VCRs), …

The already low representation of Latinx talent across the industry – and even lower visibility of those who have succeeded – contributes to the low awareness. Even today, many do …