Michael J. Fox in “Back to the Future”, 1985, directed by Robert Zemeckis. Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment When the stars align, or, more realistically speaking, when the many mov...
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In Walter Hill’s “Streets of Fire”, Amy Madigan is a 1980s Hawksian Heroine and she pretty much walks out with the entire film. Read More → The post Amy Madigan Is an ‘80s Hawksian H...
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In our interview, costume designer Wendy Chuck tells about making films with Alexander Payne for 20 years, the art of collaboration, why the movies of the 1970s were not where she turned to for i...
It was sixty years ago, 1963. It was very rare that women enjoyed the prerogative of a sports car in movies. My favourite to this day remains Tippi Hedren in The Birds, driving her Aston Martin c...
“She was feminine, and she had that Parisian feel that Babette needed to have in this film. Also, in Karl Lagerfeld's robe, she was... She had to differentiate herself from the others, which sh...
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They say that sometimes you can see the soul of a film in a photograph taken on the set. But that only very rarely happens. On the set of The Misfits, Eve Arnold managed to capture not only the s...
”Les Aventuriers”, 1967. Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie, Compagnia Generale Finanziaria Cinematografica Two guys and a girl try to make a life out of what they love doing. It’s t...
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“Shiny blacks, animal prints, and wildly overgrown garden foliage for Mrs. Robinson’s lair.” She’s the beast in the jungle. Anne Bancroft’s multi-layered performance as Mrs. Robinson in...
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There was something inherently modern about Steve McQueen even when he played a character in a classic western. He is restless in John Sturges’ The Magnificent Seven, always fidgeting, the perf...
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A Paris where two lovers are overwhelmed by fate and where the image of Jean Seberg as Patricia Franchini strolling down the Champs-Elysées in The New York Herald Tribune t-shirt became an everl...
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