With Deconstructing Harry, writer-director-star Woody Allen (Everyone Says I Love You, Mighty Aphrodite) continues to write stories from personal experience, as well as lift themes previously explored in the works of his favorite auteurs, Bergman and...
Although M. Night Shyamalan is a very talented writer and director, his films are becoming progressively more ambitious, and unfortunately, progressively tricky to suspend disbelief in. Lady in the Water is his most ambitious film yet,...
It’s not quite a biography about famous writer Truman Capote so much as a biographical account of the making of his most famous work, In Cold Blood, during the 1960s. It would be a landmark...
1970s / Adventure / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published October 3, 2005 · Last modified August 11, 2020
For years prior to making Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg was fascinated by UFOs. As a teenager in Scottsdale, AZ, he made a 135-minute 8mm feature called Firelight. The $400 film paid...
The Late Shift is a made-for-HBO feature film docudrama, based on the book by Bill Carter (who adapted this into a screenplay), that aims to give us an inside peek at the two forces...
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