By Barry Rubinow It’s become a cliché to say that wild and crazy news stories, although true, would be rejected by the movie studios as too preposterous, if they were pitched as a script. In the remarkable new documentary THE…
‘THE LOVERS & THE DESPOT’: North Korean Dictator Loved Movies So Much He Kidnapped His Director and Star
By Barry Rubinow It’s become a cliché to say that wild and crazy news stories, although true, would be rejected by the movie studios as too preposterous, if they were pitched as a script. In the remarkable new documentary THE…
Getting to Know Bob Dylan
A BBC film about Bob Dylan’s starring role in the movie HEARTS OF FIRE, directed by Richard Marquand and co-starring Fiona and Rupert Everett. (Source: Christopher Sykes)
Jason Miller (Priest from “The Exorcist”) Interviewed About Making His Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Play Into a Film
My mother, Penny Crofton, spotted an excellent documentary on PBS the other night called “Miller’s Tale.” It’s a biographical film about playwright and actor Jason Miller. He’s the father of the actor Jason Patric, but more importantly he wrote “That…
Martin Scorsese: ‘Italianamerican’
In 1974, master filmmaker Martin Scorsese released a documentary about his Italian-American family. The opening scenes include his father on the couch talking about delivering vests for his cousin, while his mother makes pasta sauce in the kitchen.
‘AMERICAN PRINCE’: A Documentary About Making Movies
AMERICAN PRINCE from Tommy Pallotta on Vimeo. Did you know that the most memorable scene from Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, in which Travolta injects adrenaline into the heart of a woman who overdosed, is based on a true story? It happened…