Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls paints a striking image of Peter Bogdanovitch as a man with more ambition than sense. Bogdanovitch started his career as an actor but struggled to get
Kim Longinotto is one of Britain’s most under-appreciated documentarians. A graduate of the National Film and Television School in Buckinghamshire, she began her career in 1976 with a documentary about her old
By the time it acquired the power of speech, cinema was already a complex artistic form with the capacity to capture moods, build characters, and tell stories. Though 1927 may have been
At the end of World War II, advancing American forces came upon the home of Heinrich Himmler, one-time head of the SS and architect of the so-called ‘Final Solution’ that industrialised the
Short film is one of the most under-appreciated artistic mediums around, which is a real shame as it can provide filmmakers with a space in which to experiment whilst remaining relatively free
Born in the Chinese province of Guangdong in 1893, Ip Man has recently emerged as one of the most significant figures in Chinese popular culture. Aside from being a master of Wing
Tonino Valerii sprang from the great genre melting pot that was the Italian film industry in the 1960s. Always keen to be considered both a writer and a director, he began his
Norman Jewison began his career as a film director with a series of light comedies that landed him a contract with Universal Studios. Worried that making back-to-back Doris Day vehicles might wind
‘Jack Strong’ was the codename of a senior Polish military officer who spent decades sharing Soviet plans with the CIA in the hope of averting a nuclear confrontation that would have turned
Do a bit of reading about the disastrous marriage of Euphemia ‘Effie’ Gray to the prominent Victorian art critic John Ruskin and you will realise that it contained too much story for