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May 22, 2021
Eric Rohmer, the great French moviemaker, was a sly but sympathetic observer of human folly, forever attentive to the ways…
January 25, 2018
Horror moviemaker Adam Gierasch (Autopsy, Night of the Demons, Tales of Halloween) shares memories of his friend, mentor, and collaborator,…
April 27, 2017
I only met Jonathan Demme once, on March 14, 1992. The place was a ballroom at the United Nations. The…
October 11, 2016
Andrzej Wajda, the powerhouse purveyor of Polish cinema with a celebrated knack for devastating depictions of war-torn Europe, passed away…
June 20, 2016
The MovieMaker staff was shocked and saddened to hear about the untimely passing of actor Anton Yelchin on Sunday, June…
October 7, 2015
The influential director Chantal Akerman past away on October 5, 2015. She will be remembered as both a feminist and…
June 29, 2015
This simple moment of play, captured in the 1973 film Hot Pepper by the late, great documentarian Les Blank, exemplifies…
August 7, 2009
I can't say I was a big fan of John Hughes' Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club—though, to be fair,…
June 25, 2009
My condolences to the family and friends of Farrah Fawcett, who lost her long battle to cancer today.
June 4, 2009
David Carradine worked with everyone from Ingmar Bergman to Quentin Tarantino, Charlton Heston to Chuck Norris, Paul Bartel to Martin…
March 30, 2009
Seventeen years ago, while dining with movie score composer Maurice Jarre at the Montreal World Film Festival, I told him…
February 10, 2009
Character actor par excellence James Whitmore had dozens upon dozens of film and TV credits on his lengthy resume—everything from…
April 7, 2008
Back in the early 1980s, at the time when he and Ed Asner were very publicly clashing over matters concerning…