Robert Zemeckis won the Oscar, Golden Globe, and a Director’s Guild of American Award for Best Director for the hugely successful Forrest Gump. The film’s numerous honors also included Oscars for Best Actor (Tom Hanks) and Best Picture. The Library of Congress recently selected the film to join the esteemed National Film Registry. Zemeckis re-teamed […]

In 1990, Hollywood skeptics, convinced that Kevin Costner had a flop the size of "Heaven's Gate" on his hands, had tagged his three hours directorial debut, "Kevin's Gate." When Costner was looking for financing, there was not much interest in a marathon-length Western featuring unknown actors speaking in subtitled Lakota Sioux dialect.

Barry Levinson's sensibility as a filmmaker was unmistakably shaped by his hometown, Baltimore, the setting of his personal film trilogy, Diner, Tin Men, and Avalon. Both tough and funny, the trilogy reeks with the smell of ordinary lives and gritty realism.

Oliver Stone spent eleven difficult years getting his combat movie financed. Stone first wrote the script for “Platoon” script in 1975, but the country was not ready to deal with the issues of the war. The Festival de Cannes, which rejected the film twenty years ago, is doing a special event this year to commemorate its 20th anniversary.