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Daniele Suissa trained as a director in Paris, emigrated to Canada and then directed and/or produced 29 movies before satisfying a lifelong dream by moving to Hollywood and working in the U.S.
Certain actors always stop me cold. Cruising through the channels on late-night TV, God help me if I should stumble […]
Not long ago independent moviemakers were the darlings of the mainstream media.
An in-depth interview with Martin Scorsese, America’s Greatest Living Director, about his storied career and his “eastern western,” Gangs of New York.
The former actress, turned director, is hoping that Personal Velocity, based on her book of the same name, will find its audience quickly.
Socially conscious Steiger won the Academy Award for his portrayal of a bigoted Southern sheriff in Jewison’s 1967 hit In the Heat of the Night.
Men in Scoring Position was conceived in the winter of 1995, shortly after the city of Seattle was transformed by the […]
James Coburn will tell you that it’s hard to separate the actor from the characters he plays, and no one has played the Cool Customer better than Coburn.
Stiles is also a screenwriter who recently had her first screenplay, “The Anarchist’s Daughter,” developed at the Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab.
With 27 films to her credit in the last 10 years, Bridget Fonda has quietly become one of the more prolific actresses around.
We’ve all known guys like Richard Linklater. He’s concerned with human beings, not cartoon characters, gimmicks, or techno-stunts. He’s also a genuinely nice guy, the kind of artist who makes you glad you’re in this business.
It’s 5:30 p.m. and Harvey Keitel has just entered the lobby of the Clift Hotel in San Francisco after a […]
If there were a director’s hall of fame, John Frankenheimer would be elected on the first ballot.
MovieMaker sat down with one of our favorite actors, Tim Roth, to give the actor’s perspective on the screenplay at “The Ultimate Screenwriter’s Workshop.”
Prior to the days when movies were amalgams of past movies, the clash between genre and auteur, between the classic mythic structures of story and the artist’s sensibility was the driving force behind Hollywood cinema.
You’ve got to figure that Woody Allen knew something about Mira Sorvino before he asked her to read for the part of world-class ultra-ditz Linda, the lead role in his new film, Mighty Aphrodite.
MM: I’ve read that your creative roots sprang from the Free Cinema movement of the late 50s. How influential was that period? JS: It didn’t influence my style. It opened the doors for those of us who wanted to make films in that period.
Oliver Stone remains the Hollywood rebel, unfazed, unflinching, a stone unturned. He has his fame, his fortune, and his Oscars. Still, he wants more.
There’s one thing you won’t do after you see Ron Shelton’s latest movie.
“At first I didn’t know people could say those things about you,” Alan Rudolph intimates with a smile. “With all […]
I had a chance to sit down with Dan Algrant when he was in Seattle a couple of weeks ago […]
