Morris Engel: Little Fugitive filmmaker. Influenced by Italian neorealism, naturalistic documentaries/docudramas, and late silent era releases like Paul Fejos’ Lonesome, Morris Engel’s no-star, no-plot, no-frills Little Fugitive remains one of…
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Peter Falk: Two-time Oscar nominee. Peter Falk, the two-time Oscar nominee best known for playing television police detective Columbo, died Thursday, June 23, at his Beverly Hills home. Falk, who…
Robert Evans with Rosemary’s Baby producer William Castle and lead actress Mia Farrow on the set of Roman Polanski’s classic 1968 horror thriller. “An Academy Salute to Robert Evans” will…
Breathless movie review: One of the most influential and most iconic motion pictures ever made, Jean-Luc Godard’s cinéma vérité-style homage to gangster flicks earned the filmmaker the Best Director prize…
A Woman Under the Influence 1974 review: John Cassavetes’ indie – starring wife Gena Rowlands as a mad (?) housewife – is evidence that fiercely independent filmmaking doesn’t necessarily result…
Faces movie review: About three years in the making, John Cassavetes’ 1968 dysfunctional marriage drama is both an American independent cinema landmark and an infuriatingly self-indulgent and long-winded exemplar of…