Author Adrian Schober

Later this year will mark the 60th anniversary of the release of West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins, 1961), the landmark American musical film based on the hit Broadway play, with music and lyric...

Robert Earl Wise b. 10 September, 1914, Winchester, Indiana, USA d. 14 September, 2005, Westwood, Los Angeles, USA Wise is varied. He seems able to do almost anything … – Arthur Knight. In his influentia...

In Two Cheers for Hollywood, film historian and critic Joseph McBride is on a mission: to recover the marginalised or unsung reputations of screenwriters, directors, producers and craftspeople of some of our fa...

“The fact that I consider myself a film critic first and a feminist second means that I feel an obligation to the wholeness and complexity of film history.”– Molly Haskell While researching her portrait of the...

In September 1973, 26-year-old Steven Spielberg attended a press conference in Rome to promote his made-for-TV chase thriller, Duel (1971), which had been released theatrically in Europe with around fifteen min...

In his 1987 book-length study, UK film writer and academic Neil Sinyard attempted to sum up the essential qualities of Steven Spielberg’s films that make them so appealing to mass audiences: They have a seduct...

In the unusual opening credits for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Trouble with Harry (1955), the camera tracks from left to right over primitive, cartoon-like drawings depicting an autumn pastoral:  birds and trees of ...