Stephen Chow is the director, producer, and writer of CJ7, his fifth feature. Chow is Asia’s number one comedy star and one of the region’s most beloved entertainers.
Movie Stars: Brando, Marlon: Great Actor–Reluctant Star (Part II)
February 3, 2008 by
One of the anomalies of Brando's career was that, with the exception of Kazan, who directed him in three pictures, Brando was never associated with a specific filmmaker. For whatever reason, he seldom worked with the same director more than once, the exceptions being Coppola (“The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now”) and Bertolucci (“Last Tango” and “1900”).
Movie Stars: Grant, Cary: Hollywood’s Ultimate Star (Part II)
February 3, 2008 by
Grant knew that he would never win an Oscar, as he said: “Light comedy has little chance for an Oscar.' He was right. As I showed in my book, “All About Oscar,” comedy as a genre and comedic performances are the most overlooked in Oscar's annals. None of the great comedians, Chaplin included, had won a legit Oscar, and Jack Lemmon won his Oscar for a soupy melodrama, “Save the Tiger,” rather than for “Some Like It Hot,” or another Billy Wilder comedy.
Putnam, Tom: Director of The Hottie and the Nottie
January 31, 2008 by
Tom Putnam was recognized as one of the ‚Äú25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine and is a recipient of the Independent Feature Project(IFP) Fast Track Award. In addition to directing “The Hottie and Nottie,” he recently completed producing and directing the World War II feature docu, “Red White Black & Blue,” which
premiered at the 2006 Locarno Film Festival, in the Critics’ Week section.
Oscar Directors: Lean, David–Centennial of Oscar-Winning Master (Lawrence of Arabia)
January 30, 2008 by
David Lean, born March 25, 1908, was one of the world's most famous filmmakers, having directed two of cinema's most popular and honored epic spectacles, “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957) and “Lawrence of Arabia”(1962), both Oscar-winning blockbusters. Lean's output was small but impressive. To honor this event, in the next two weeks, we will run full-length reviews of all of Lean's pictures, chronologically.
