Suggested reading: Hitchcock and Selznick:The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick in Hollywood (1999), Leonard J. Leff Hitchcock's Notebooks: An authorized and Illustrated Look Inside the Creative Mind of Alfred Hitchcock ...
"The thing you need to know is, it's all about sex." That's the first spoken line in Queer as Folk, Showtime's remake for the American market of a British series of the same name. Notice has been given, then, ...
Langston Hughes brought his renowned art as a poet to the writing of prose as well, writing that is sometimes deceptively plain on the surface, but is highly focused and densely packed with image and irony. Cora Unashamedis ...
A ski lodge, 1965. Well-scrubbed teenagers lounge around the fireplace, lazily sipping hot chocolate. In walk four black men, nattily dressed in identical hooded floor-length dusters with enormous white lapels. One of them sports a mountainous, perfectly coifed pompadour. ...
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders is as good as television gets. This adaptation of Daniel Defoe's 1722 novel has wonderful characters, a rich, historical setting, and a cast that could not have been better chosen. ...
Crave, a one-act drama that premiered in 1998 by the late Sarah Kane, comes out of the experimental and absurdist tradition of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Edward Albee. Like the plays of Beckett, Pinter, and Albee, Crave combines wordplay, ...
A new lush adaptation of Emily Bronte’s tour de force, Wuthering Heights, will be aired on PBS’ Masterpiece Classics on Sunday, January 18, 2009 and January 25, 2009. Set in the rugged moors of Yorkshire during the ...
Westerns, in the form of books, films, and television programming, are an enduring expression of Americana, utilizing the majestic landscapes west of the Mississippi and the pioneer spirit of a frontier society as the background and underpinnings of tales ...
When most people hear the name Howard Hughes, his career in motion pictures is probably not the first thing to spring to mind. The more likely image is that of an old man with long hair and fingernails, wearing ...
When word leaked out earlier this year that David Lynch was making his return to television with a new ABC series called Mulholland Drive, it was cause for jubilation among those who never quite got over that strange Northwestern ...
