Billy Wilder was born in Austria in 1906 and after a brief career in Berlin as a journalist, he began to work as a scriptwriter in the active German film community of the 1920’s. As many others did, the Jewish Wilder emigrated to America in 1933 when Adolph Hitler came to power, and he arrived […]
Month: May 2014
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10 Films That Can Teach You Everything You Need To Know About Film Editing
Editing is a selection process. Sometimes hundreds of hours of footage are captured, and we only end up seeing around two hours of it. It’s also a language that has rules. When done badly it can cause boredom or, even worse, confusion. The importance of editing cannot be underestimated. According to acclaimed film writers David […]
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10 Essential Michael Haneke Films You Need To Watch
Austrian film director and screenwriter, Michael Haneke is one of Europe’s most prominent and controversial auteurs working today. He began his career in television and theatre and it wasn’t until late in his career at the age of 33 that he began working in film, with his 1989 cinematic debut Der siebente Kontinent [The Seventh […]
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10 Essential Mario Bava Films Every Horror Fan Should See
Mario Bava (b. 1914—d. 1980) was an Italian filmmaker whose work has influenced that of Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, and Francis Ford Coppola, among a score of others. He’s also credited with indirectly spawning the slasher film craze of the ’80’s. Sort of a jack-of-all-trades in the Italian film industry, working as a cinematographer and […]
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10 Essential Tim Burton Films You Need To Watch
Tim Burton has become the poster boy for all things gothic and weird in modern cinema. If one really looks into his body of work, there is a sort of formula within the majority of his films that he abides by, and it goes something like this: an oddball, misfit character is somehow thrown into […]
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The 30 Best Western Movies of All Time
The Western is one of America’s unique contributions to culture. It reflects American history and has helped shape the nation’s view of itself and how it others see it. However, the history of the Western is so pervasive, that some of the most remarkable films of the genre were actually made in Europe – specifically […]