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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 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
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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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… […]