I came across a very interesting radio interview on NPR with Edward Jay Epstein author of the new book The Hollywood Economist. He made the interesting observation that movie going has changed since the 1940’s. "In the 1940s, [going to the movies] was the national pastime....
Surviving in the digital age as a filmmaker requires knowing the latest in lenses, cameras, shooting formats and ways to tell a story. At 83 film director Roger Corman of Little Shop of Horrors and Pit and the Pendulum fame is most definitely changing with...
Books to movies - I'm forever in a quandary as to whether I want to see an 'adaptation' of a book. Personally, I enjoy the images my mind creates while reading, so I'm not usually eager to see the film version. I've been disappointed before....
If you haven't seen the 1976 film Network, run out and rent it. Right now. Network is a scathing satire about a fictional television network UBS. This Oscar winning screenplay was written by Paddy Chayefsky. It was unbelievable then and today it's still almost unbelievable. It's...