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Crossing the Line: Eric Rohmer, 1920 – 2010

Eric Rohmer, the great French moviemaker, was a sly but sympathetic observer of human folly, forever attentive to the ways…

3 years ago
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Gentle Heart, Gruesome Imagination: Tobe Hooper (January 25, 1943—August 26, 2017)

Tobe Hooper gave me my start in the business. We had the same agent, and he invited my writing partner/now-wife…

6 years ago
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Crossing the Line: Jonathan Demme, 1944-2017

I only met Jonathan Demme once, on March 14, 1992. The place was a ballroom at the United Nations. The…

7 years ago
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Crossing the Line: Andrzej Wajda, Pioneer of the Personal and Political in Polish Cinema (1926—2016)

Andrzej Wajda, the powerhouse purveyor of Polish cinema with a celebrated knack for devastating depictions of war-torn Europe, passed away…

8 years ago
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“Making Sense of Something That is Beyond Us:” Anton Yelchin’s Spring 2016 Interview

The MovieMaker staff was shocked and saddened to hear about the untimely passing of actor Anton Yelchin on Sunday, June…

8 years ago
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Crossing the Line: Chantal Akerman and Her Pioneering Female Eye

Belgian film director Chantal Akerman passed away on Tuesday at the age of 65. Akerman had a major influence on…

9 years ago
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A Poem is a Naked Person: The Late Blooming of Les Blank’s Final Verse

On a naked corner in the American South, a young black girl boosts herself up on a yellow fire hydrant,…

9 years ago
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Crossing the Line: John Hughes, 1950 – 2009

I can't say I was a big fan of John Hughes' Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club—though, to be fair,…

15 years ago
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Crossing the Line: Farrah Fawcett, 1947 – 2009

My condolences to the family and friends of Farrah Fawcett, who lost her long battle to cancer today. I know…

15 years ago
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Crossing the Line: David Carradine, 1936-2009

David Carradine worked with everyone from Ingmar Bergman to Quentin Tarantino, Charlton Heston to Chuck Norris, Paul Bartel to Martin…

15 years ago
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Crossing the Line: Maurice Jarre, 1924 – 2009

Seventeen years ago, while dining with movie score composer Maurice Jarre at the Montreal World Film Festival, I told him…

15 years ago
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Crossing the Line: James Whitmore, 1921 – 2009

Character actor par excellence James Whitmore had dozens upon dozens of film and TV credits on his lengthy resume—everything from…

15 years ago
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Crossing the Line: Charlton Heston, 1923 – 2008

Back in the early 1980s, at the time when he and Ed Asner were very publicly clashing over matters concerning…

16 years ago