Author Tony Williams

b. 23 January 1903, Yekaterinburg, Russia. d. 16 December 1983, Moscow. “This was during the most terrible time of Soviet history. The film came out in 1938. On the one hand it proclaimed Stalin’s favorite sl...

Long recognised as the pioneer of the “Kuleshov effect”, teacher of future cinematic talents such as Sergei Eisenstein (who attended Kuleshov’s Film Workshop for three months during 1922-1923), Vsevolod Pud...

Though lesser known than some of his later films, Goupi mains rouges (1943) was Jacques Becker’s second solo feature and received acclaim at the time of its appearance in Occupied France. It also became the fir...

Popularly viewed as Peckinpah’s first accomplished film following the compromised The Deadly Companions (1961), Ride the High Country (1962) has been mostly seen as the director’s farewell to the traditional We...

Le Quai des brumes (Marcel Carné, 1938) opens on a fog-swept, darkened rural road leading to the port of Le Havre. A truck driver narrowly avoids crashing into the hitchhiking figure of colonial Army deserter J...

Celebrated as the first non-Mainland Chinese film to win an award at the Cannes Film Festival (in 1975), and released during the peak of contemporary Western fascination with the martial arts genre epitomised b...

Viewing The Big Parade 88 years after its initial release, and 25 years following its inclusion in my upper-level course on the war film, elicited complex feelings. On the one hand, although the film still stan...

Due to conflict and an eventual breach over the making of Night Passage (James Neilson, 1957), The Man From Laramie (1955) became the final collaboration between Anthony Mann and James Stewart whose association...

Long recognised as the pioneer of the “Kuleshov effect”, teacher of future cinematic talents such as Sergei Eisenstein (who attended Kuleshov’s Film Workshop for three months during 1922-1923), Vsevolod Pud...

As Alan Williams notes, “Le Corbeau is an essential work for world film history, if only because its meanings are still being debated” (1). Filmed during the Occupation by the German controlled Continental Film...

Dai yat lai aau him (Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind/Dangerous Encounters – 1st Kind) was the third film directed by Tsui Hark. Following his stylish first feature, Die bian (The Butterfly Murders, 1979)...

Winner of many awards at national and international film festivals and the subject of several articles and one monograph – by Mette Hjort – in Hong Kong University Press’ New Hong Kong Cinema Series, Yuen Ling-...

Thunderbolt (1929 USA 94 mins) Prod Co: Josef von Sternberg/Famous Players-Lasky-Paramount Prod: B. P. Fineman Scr: Charles Furthman (dialogue Herman J. Mankiewicz), from a story by Jules and Charles Fur...

The Crowd Roars (1932 USA 84 mins) Prod Co: First National-Vitaphone/Warner Bros. Prod: Bryan Foy Dir: Howard Hawks Scr: Kubec Glasmon, John Bright, Seton I. Miller, Niven Busch, from a story by Howard H...

The Emperor of the North Pole/Emperor of the North (1973 USA 118 mins) Prod Co: Inter-Hemisphere Productions Prod: Stanley Hough Dir: Robert Aldrich Scr: Christopher Knopf Phot: Joseph Biroc Ed: Michael ...

Alfred Hitchcock’s film of John Buchan’s novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps, was one of his most successful, and he repeatedly used the story template in other films, such as North by Northwest. But Hitchcock showed little empathy for Buchan’s ideology.

Manhunter (1986 USA 120 mins) Prod Co: De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, Inc. Prod: Richard Roth Dir: Michael Mann Scr: Michael Mann, based on the novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris Phot: Dante Spinotti ...

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962 USA 132 mins) Prod Co: Associates and Aldrich/Seven Arts/Warner Bros. Prod, Dir: Robert Aldrich Scr: Lukas Heller, based on the novel by Henry Farrell Phot: Ernest ...

b. 29 July 1932 Bristol, England Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources Beyond Get Carter: Landscapes of Alienation Although Mike Hodges will always be associated with ...

The Wild Bunch (1969 USA 144 mins) Source: Roadshow Prod Co: Warner Brothers-Seven Arts Prod: Phil Feldman Dir: Sam Peckinpah Scr: Walon Green, Sam Peckinpah, adapted from a story by Walon Green and Roy...

Macbeth (1948 USA 107 mins) Source: Library of Congress Prod Co: Mercury Productions/Republic Pictures Corporation Prod, Dir: Orson Welles Scr: Orson Welles, adapted from the play by William Shakespeare ...

Forty Guns (1957 USA 80 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Twentieth Century-Fox/Globe Enterprises Prod, Dir, Scr: Samuel Fuller Phot: Joseph Biroc Ed: Gene Fowler Prod Des: Walter M. Scott, Chester Bayhi Mus:...

An Airman’s Letter to His Mother (1941 UK 5 mins) Source: PC Prod, Dir, Phot: Michael Powell Add Phot: Bernard Browne Narration: John Gielgud (and Michael Powell) Although this short film appears i...

Hue and Cry (1946 UK 82 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Ealing Prod: Michael Balcon Dir: Charles Crichton Scr: T.E.B. Clarke Phot: Douglas Slocombe Ed: Charles Hasse Art Dir: Norman Arnold Mus: Georges Auri...

Made at a troubled time and with a subtext of dissention and social maladjustment, So Young So Bad is a film at odds with itself.

Horror of Dracula/Dracula (1958 UK 81 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Hammer Film Productions Prod: Anthony Hinds Dir: Terence Fisher Scr: Jimmy Sangster, based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker Phot: Jac...

Days of Hope (1975 UK 411 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: BBC Prod: Tony Garnett Dir: Ken Loach Scr: Jim Allen Cast: Pamela Brighton, Paul Copley, Nikolas Simmonds, John Young, Gary Roberts, John Phil...

A Fistful of Dollars (1964 Italy/West Germany/Spain 100 mins) Source: Chapel Films Prod Co: Constantin Films/Jolly Film/Ocean Films Prod: Arrigo Colombo, Giorgio Papi Dir: Sergio Leone Scr: Sergio Leone,...

b. Lawrence G. Cohen b. 15 July, 1941, New York, New York, USA filmography bibliography web resources Larry Cohen was born in New York's Washington Heights district in 1941 and was educated at the ...

Barr's book does a fine job at exploring a traditionally neglected area: Hitchcock's English films and their indebtedness to English national culture.