Mark Hellinger provided the story for the 1939 Raoul Walsh gangster film The Roaring Twenties, starring Cagney and Bogart, based on his own experiences during that decade.

Research in progress, Nov 22, 2022 Kolker: There are unashamed self-consciousness and self-reflexivity in Scorsese’s work. The construction of his film goes beyond the narrative and setting, it’s never in service of the plot or the viewers expectations. There’s kinetic energy at work that threatens to overtake the story. His films involve antagonism and struggles, […]

Alongside star Jennifer Lawrence, the helmer assembled theater vets, including Brian Tyree Henry, for the Apple drama.   Causeway director Lila Neugebauer. AUSTIN HARGRAVE “Permanence was a new reckoning,” says Lila Neugebauer of directing Apple’s soulful film Causeway. The director, 37, had made a name for herself in New York in the past decade for helming […]

William Clemens (September 10, 1905 – April 29, 1980) was an American film director. Born in Saginaw, Michigan, Clemens began his Hollywood career as a film editor in 1931. His first directing project was Man Hunt in 1936. His major credits include On Dress Parade with the Dead End Kids, two Perry Mason mysteries (The […]

Insisting that he could complete all of his assignments and feeling pressure to be an involved and loving family man, Sandrich died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 44.