Smart Words About Cinema
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Kino) I have a soft spot for Albert Lewin, a literary Hollywood writer/producer turned director with a continental sensibility an eye for handsome imagery (if not always cinematic storytelling). His productions tended toward literary adaptations (The Good Earth, 1937, which he produced, and The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1945, which [...]
[Originally published in Movietone News 64-65, March 1980] I’ve never had the opportunity to see Allan Arkush and Joe Dante’s Hollywood Boulevard; on the other hand, I suspect that I saw a fair portion of it in Roger Corman: Hollywood’s Wild Angel, Christian Blackwood’s genial film dossier on Roger Corman, whose New World Pictures released [...]
[Originally published in Movietone News 66-67, March 1981] Continued from “Part 2″ here. How do you feel about writing these low-budget films? Do you see advantages in it, or are you hungry for millions of dollars per budget? If I had millions of dollars I’d probably make millions of small films. Part of it is [...]