David O. Russell (b. 1958) boasts a diverse body of work as a writer and director, spanning multiple genres and featuring radically differing aesthetic styles. While his early work comically explored taboo subjects with unerring directness, he has also investigated politics with explosive satire. In his most recent films, including American Hustle ......
Elaine May, Mikey and Nicky, and the Making of a Masterpiece
Examines the career and unorthodox filmmaking practices of director Elaine May, whose Mikey and Nicky, over a span of fifty years, transformed from a fiasco to a masterpiece of seventies cinema. Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky stands out in the history of Hollywood. After a troubled production, massive cost overruns, and lawsuits between May and the ......
Elaine May, Mikey and Nicky, and the Making of a Masterpiece
Examines the career and unorthodox filmmaking practices of director Elaine May, whose Mikey and Nicky, over a span of fifty years, transformed from a fiasco to a masterpiece of seventies cinema. Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky stands out in the history of Hollywood. After a troubled production, massive cost overruns, and lawsuits between May and the ......
One of the most beloved filmmakers of his time, Bill Forsyth (b. 1946) has-with one exception-not directed a feature in more than thirty years. This long silence is all the more remarkable given his meteoric rise: between 1979 and 1983, the Glasgow native crafted four comic gems that helped put Scottish cinema on the map. How did the director of ......
One of the most beloved filmmakers of his time, Bill Forsyth (b. 1946) has-with one exception-not directed a feature in more than thirty years. This long silence is all the more remarkable given his meteoric rise: between 1979 and 1983, the Glasgow native crafted four comic gems that helped put Scottish cinema on the map. How did the director of ......
The story of the Star Film Ranch and its pioneering crew, who created the first "authentic" Westerns filmed in Texas. In 1910, the MEliEs Star Film Company of Manhattan set up a moving-picture studio outside San Antonio, the first in Texas. Determined to make the most authentic Westerns possible, the company filmed there for a little over a ......
In 1914, an unknown French filmmaker arrived in New York; within four years, that man, Maurice Tourneur (1876-1961), would become one of America's most acclaimed directors. In this masterful biography, Christine Leteux shows how intimately connected Tourneur's life was to major events of the twentieth century as well as to the profound ......