Comedian, actor, writer, director Mike Nichols is truly a man of many talents. In regards to his career in cinema, with the odd exception here and there (1986’s “Heartburn” springs to mind), he is a director that you can on the whole trust to provide entertaining and, in some cases, enlightening cinema. Born in 1931, […]
Federico Fellini ranks amongst the filmmakers held in the highest of regards within the world of cinema. So much so, that adjectives like “Fellinian” and “Fellinieque” have been devised to describe certain characteristics closely associated with the Italian master, both in cinema as well as in art in general. He has won five Academy Awards […]
Actors and actresses come and go. Some make an impression. Some do not. In relation to the machine that is Hollywood, this is the nature of the beast, the whole ethos of ‘this year’s model’ and all that. Totally flying in the face of that attitude and philosophy, there is and will ever be only […]
The Seventies were a golden age for American Cinema. Directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas really changed the game with regards to how films were made and how audiences ‘watched’ cinema. Amongst those greats was one particular director who was incredibly prolific and, more often than not, hit […]
For over five decades, no other filmmaker has shaped the history of film and film craft as Francis Ford Coppola. Hardly any other career has been traversed in such a unique way from glorious, commercial success to financial disasters. After several years of working with major studio systems, Coppola stepped into the independent film business and founded […]
Like countless others across the world, I was shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of Robin Williams. To me, this man was an utter lightning bolt in human form. An insanely gifted comedian and actor, his light shone twice as bright as most of his contemporaries. Born in 1951, Williams was a star […]