Browse Articles by Bill Desowitz

Director Series-Kenneth Branagh-Sleuth

February 2007

By Bill Desowitz Who but the legendary playwright/screenwriter Harold Pinter could boldly rework Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth and make it utterly his... »

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Director Series-Bill Condon-Dreamgirls

December 2006

Director Bill Condon's Dreamgirls takes the drama of his two features, Gods and Monsters and Kinsey, into the musical world. As the person who... »

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Director Series-Martin Campbell-Casino Royale

November 2006

Having launched Pierce Brosnan as James Bond in the wildly successful GoldenEye in 1995, director Martin Campbell returns to break in a new 007,... »

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DVD reviews-A

January 2006

ost sought after movies on DVD, believe it or not, has been The High and the Mighty, the father of the modern disaster genre, produced by and starring... »

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DVD Reviews-B

January 2006

Remastered, superior-looking versions of The Sound of Music (1965), Oklahoma! (1955) and State Fair (1945) are part of a new Rodgers & Hammerstein... »

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Director series-Susan Stroman

December 2005

The ironic success of Mel Brooks’ The Producers is surreal. First came the cult 1968 comedy about bad taste becoming chic, starring Zero Mostel and... »

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Director series Christopher Columbus

November 2005

Chris Columbus may not be the first director that springs to mind when you think of a musical, but after directing two installments of Harry Potter... »

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DVD Reviews

November 2005

Cinematographer extraordinaire Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC, who last month was honored as artist in residence at the Long Beach Widescreen Film Festival, is... »

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DVD Reviews 2

November 2005

Sam Peckinpah’s first major studio picture was butchered by Columbia back in 1965, beset by production problems, plus allusions to Vietnam and the... »

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Director Series-Cameron Crowe

October 2005

If Almost Famous was an ode to Cameron Crowe’s mother, Elizabethtown is a testament to his late father, who introduced the director to The Apartment... »

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Iran’s Best Foreign Film Nominee: Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation

January 2012 | By Jack Egan

Iran’s Best Foreign Film Nominee: Asghar Farhadi’s <em>A Separation</em>

One of the surprises of this awards season is A Separation, a highly lauded film from Iran that has captivated reviewers and moviegoers and... »



Danish Director Nicolas Windng Refn Pushes Drive into High Gear

January 2012 | By Jack Egan

Danish Director Nicolas Windng Refn Pushes <em>Drive</em> into High Gear

Nicolas Windng Refn, director of Drive, doesn’t himself drive. He has failed his driver’s license test eight times. Yet the heralded Danish director came... »


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