If Cukor regretted being unable to film Romeo and Juliet in Italy, he felt the same way about not filming Camille in Paris. Greta Garbo was under contract for two more pictures at MGM, and Cukor was given a choice: Anna Karenina or Camille.  He chose Camille, guiding Garbo to her greatest performance in the […]

Selznick had taste for great literature, and made a habit of keeping lists of possible literary classics he might want to eventually film.  Novels which had withstood the test of time, he believed, were a welcome change from Hollywood’s conventional formulas.  Selznick decided to push for an adaptation of Dickens’s novel, David Copperfield.  Though no […]

Despite the dubious merits of his last two films, Cukor’s next feature, a remake of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women in 1933, began the most creative phase of his entire career. This film was followed by two other great features, Dinner at Eight and David Copperfield, that demonstrated the evolution of Cuor’s distinctive style as […]

Born in 1956, Lars von Trier is the co-founder of the Danish production company Zentropa as well as one of the founders of the Danish Dogma movement in the 1990s. Lars von Trier’s films have won prizes worldwide. These include many of the major awards at Cannes Film Festival; The Palme d’Or for Dancer in […]