Author Dean Brandum

Like many, I was aware of the films of the French director Jean Rollin long before I viewed any of his work. It would have been some time in the mid-1980s when a horror film magazine I read published a still fr...

For Senses of Cinema, in 2017 to include a dossier devoted to Budd Boetticher may seem a little ‘apropos of nothing’: this is a filmmaker who has always existed on the margins – never rising above the level of ...

In 1969 Jim Kitses’ Horizons West: Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher, Sam Peckinpah: Studies in Authorship within the Western was published.  The three filmmakers considered by the author were, at the time, periphe...

On 24 May 1972, The AVCO Center triplex theatre opened on Wiltshire Boulevard, Los Angeles. On two of the screens were the Paramount product the venue had secured a deal to distribute – the Woody Allen vehicle ...

“I felt annoyed. I could not remember being in love. That pain. Defencelessness. I thought – We wish their destruction” – Nicholas Mosley, Accident (1965) Following his foray into big-budget commercial filmmak...

Half a century from the moment when British cinema flickered so brightly as to contend on even footing with Hollywood’s most mainstream product in the American market it remains Alexander Walker’s accounts that...

When African-American filmmaker Jamaa Fanaka passed away in 2012, director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive Jan-Christopher Horak stated that Fanaka was dismayed that his films were picked up by a vid...

In January 2010, Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, the first in several stops on the festival circuit before its theatrical release in June of that year. With ...

There is no getting around it, as a director, Dennis Hopper’s name will live on almost exclusively on the basis of Easy Rider. But the authorship of that film is nowhere near a clear-cut proposition, nor its legacy.