Author Dan Golding

b. 14 May, 1944, Modesto, California, USA The place to start with George Lucas, director, is at the beginning. Aged 23, the then-USC film student won a scholarship from Columbia to hang out on the set of Mac...

There are those who write music for the movies, and then there are those whose music reshapes the stuff of cinema. Ennio Morricone, who died in July this year, was one of a handful of composers in film history ...

Alice arrives in the land of sound cinema with a certain sangfroid: ‘I wonder if I have fallen right through the Earth?’ asks 19-year-old Ruth Gilbert, underneath a barely disguised New York accent. ‘And this i...

With apologies to Pauline Kael: how do you make a happy movie in America without being jumped on? Either America has forgotten how to make uplifting films so deeply that a work like La La Land is, despite its u...