Fellini’s Memory: Amarcord Bruce Jackson January 2023 Feature Articles “I’m a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same way. But this happens because I’ve invented the whole tale from the start and it seems boring to me and unkin...
Huston, John Bruce Jackson July 2019 Great Directors b. 5 August 1906, Nevada, Missouri, U.S, d. 28 August 1987, Middletown, Rhode Island, U.S. John Huston, the American director, writer and actor, was prolific, various and uneven. As a director, he worked in...
Loose Ends in Night Moves Bruce Jackson July 2010 Feature Articles Essentially a film about failure, Arthur Penn’s 1975 film comes closest to best capturing the haunting malaise that descended on post-Watergate America. Bruce Jackson takes a fresh look at a detective film without ultimate answers.
Night Moves Around Maud Bruce Jackson April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Arthur Penn’s 1975 detective thriller contains one of the most noted of references to My Night a Maud’s, but as Bruce Jackson argues, it is more than just a token nod.
Nick’s “I”/Nick’s Eye: Why they couldn’t film Gatsby Bruce Jackson September 2009 Feature Articles In the light of Baz Luhrmann’s announcement that he intends to bring The Great Gatsby to the screen once again, Bruce Jackson looks at the failures already at hand and offers some salient advice about why F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel is so resistant to successful screen adaptation.
Conversations with Emile de Antonio Bruce Jackson April 2004 Politics and the Documentary An exemplary, early prototype of political documentary filmmaking, de Antonio's body of work is as vital today as it was in the past. Here, we are given insight into his views on filmmaking; the manner in which de Antonio funded his politically sensitive films; opponents and facilitators; and much, much more.
