In 2005, the Writer’s Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writer’s Guild of America, East (WGAWE) conducted a poll of its members to come up with the top 101 screenplays of all-time. Professional movie and television writers were asked to pick their top ten screenplays from any era of filmmaking. The votes were tallied ...
Nuremburg, Germany 1934, the biggest political day of the year for the Germans, Party Day. Adolf Hitler has just taken office as the feuer, a newly created office, making him dictator over the German nation. The country is introduced to there new leader, through speeches given to the masses by now infamous characters of German ...
In Criterion’s restoration of Fritz Lang’s marvelous film M (1931), Peter Lorre plays Hans Beckert, a serial killer of children on the loose in Post WWI Germany. The film isn’t a mystery because early on we learn Beckert’s identity. Instead, it is a thriller steeped in social commentary that is just as relevant today. The ...
“Blancanieves” is a Spanish retelling of Snow White. It isn’t surprising that there is yet another movie about Snow White and/or a retelling of Brother’s Grimm fairy tale. What is surprising is that “Blancanieves” is a black-and-white silent film. Are foreign films going back to their roots? French film “The Artist” won tons of awards ...
