Author Peter Tonguette

A great misapprehension surrounds the four films of Whit Stillman: he is said to only be interested in the rich or super-rich. The dye was cast twenty-two years ago, when his first film, Metropolitan, was relea...

In the late 1970s, Catherine Berge’s encounter with both the films and person of King Vidor was a seminal turning point in her life. Here, she talks about her personal history with the director and her 1980 film devoted to him.

A great director, no doubt, but as Peter Tonguette demonstrates, King Vidor was equally proficient at the art and craft of editing.

By 1997, when the first edition of Joseph McBride’s Steven Spielberg: A Biography was published, its author’s previous subjects included Orson Welles, John Ford, Howard Hawks, and Frank Capra. To add Steven Spi...

In his excellent 1996 review of several Orson Welles books which had just been published, Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote the following about the revised and expanded edition of Joseph McBride’s classic Orson Welles (...

The second half of an in-depth interview, covering Gordon's recent films, therein revealing an evolution of his thematic and stylistic concerns.

The first half of an in-depth interview, covering Gordon's beginnings as an actor and his first three films as director.

This tribute to the distinguished cinematographer (1925–2004) focuses on his 11-film collaboration with Woody Allen.

Welles' fascination with magic fuelled one of his most intriguing late projects. His collaborator recalls its making.

b. July 30, 1939, Kingston, New York, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources Let Us Sing of the Days That Are Gone…Peter Bogdanovich: A Cinema of Silent Exchanges “When...

Critics who dismissed Keith Gordon's The Singing Detective as a failed adaptation or musical have missed the point, argues Tonguette, who sees the film as the latest instalment of a remarkable body of work.

On the trail of the unfinished Isak Dinesen adaptation The Dreamers, Tonguette talks with Welles experts and associates about this crucial late work.

California Split (1974 USA 108 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia Prod Co: Columbia Pictures Prod: Robert Altman, Joseph Walsh Dir: Robert Altman Scr: Joseph Walsh Phot: Paul Lohmann Ed: Lou Lombardo Ar...

b. January 19, 1932, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA filmography bibliography web resources Looking back on the career of Richard Lester is a little like receiving the rarest of glimpses of an all b...

The Lady Eve (1941 USA 90mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Paramount Prod: Paul Jones Dir, Scr: Preson Sturges Phot: Victor Milner Ed: Stuart Gilmore Art Dir: Hans Dreier, Ernst Fegte Mus Dir: Sigmund Krumgold...

The Typewriter, The Rifle, and the Movie Camera (1996 USA 55 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: BFI, Independent Film Channel Prod: Paula Jalfon, Colin MacCabe, Tim Robbins Dir, Scr: Adam Simon Phot: Caroli...