Portrait of one the most fantastic American cartoonist, author of MAUS, Pulitzer Prize in 1992.
Deep rooted religious beliefs seemingly going back to the Pilgrim Fathers’ Puritanism dominate a society which is entertained by violence no end on a daily basis. If it is true that American movies reflect American society the United States have yet another severe problem: a lack of open sexuality and eroticism. After the Hayes Code had faded away Hollywood exploited the newly ...
Gene Tierney's life story would perfectly lend itself to a screenplay for a successful Hollywood movie with herself starring in it. She grew up in a well-to-do middle class family and began to write poetry at an early age. On a trip to Los Angeles she was taken on a tour through the Warner Studios. When Anatole Litvak spotted her, he said to her mother : she ought to be in pict...
In the 1950s and 1960s, Ida Lupino was the only woman in Hollywood with a serious career as a director: first in cinema and mainly for her own production company The Filmmakers Inc., and then in television, contributing episodes to some of the most celebrated series of the era. A staunch Democrat and Catholic, Lupino’s cinema often tackled subjects considered risky if not outri...
A face set in stone, a monotone voice, a magnetism that transcends the screen: who is really hiding behind the mask of the murderer who made an entire generation tremble Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony is, first and foremost, the romantic story of a post-war child predestined for an unremarkable fate, whose life is a journey strewn with pitfalls, addiction, and opportunities lo...
Wichita Films(法国专门从事纪录片制作的电影制作公司)制作,上个世纪40年代、50年代,美国好莱坞以洛城为背景, 拍摄了众多关于暴力、罪案、背叛的黑色电影(Film noir,noir在法语是黑色的意思,即好莱坞侦探片)。黑色电影特别是强调善恶划分不明确的道德观与来自於性的动机的题材。好莱坞经典黑色电影时期被广泛认为从1940年代至1950年代末。这个时期的黑色电影带有压抑黑白片的视觉风格,源自德国表现主义电影,同时很多典型的情节以及对经典黑色电影普遍看法来自于美国大萧条时期的犯罪小说。Film noir这个词来自法语,1946年第一次被法国评论家Nino Frank使用,但当时大部分美国电影业界人士并不了解这个概念。影史学家和评论界在事后才定义黑色电影;很多后来被认为是拍摄黑色电影的电影人声称当时并没有意识到在制作一个新类型的影片。