The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald's prescient 1925 portrayal of an America transitioning from humble agrarian roots to a rapacious capitalism.
Filmmaking entered his life as much as a necessity to stay sane as it was something that he enjoyed doing.
Giants have been with us always—in the annals of fantasy storytelling, that is.
Ang Lee's Life of Pi is a lyrical, poetic, cinematic version of the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, who famously declared the source material "unfilmable."
Filmmaker Peter Jackson fulfilled a longstanding dream when tackling J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but his greatest achievement wasn't just a matter of completing the grueling project, or even winning Director and Best...
It's sad, but true: Women directors rarely get any Oscar® love, but that all changed in 2009 thanks to The Hurt Locker, the Iraq War bomb-squad drama directed by Kathryn Bigelow, when the nail-biting, suspenseful underdog shut out the biggest...
It's been quite a while since Oscar®-winning director Robert Zemeckis, who has focused his energy on animated projects over the past decade, has made a live-action film.
For actors playing James Bond, their third outing as Agent 007 usually proves to be the make-or-break effort. After Dr. No and the still remarkably engaging From Russia with Love, Goldfinger became a worldwide breakout hit that well...
Canadian writer-director David Cronenberg has always marched to the beat of his own idiosyncratic drum.
Writer/director Trevin Matcek was invited to pitch this story to Futurestates via Film Independent's Directing Lab. ...
"It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive."
Religion. Race. Politics. These prickly subjects have always provoked heated discussion—and often bloodshed.
Batmanglij is transparent in his desires to shake up Hollywood a bit by melding art house and psychological thriller, looking to both connect and captivate his viewer at the same time.
Around Hollywood, the prevailing wisdom is that to ensure a contemporary perspective and, hence, appeal to a new generation of filmgoers, successful film franchises need a fresh start every few years.
Wes Anderson's cinematic world has been described as whimsical, wistful, wide-angle, quirky and a bit ridiculous. ...
For diehard Men in Black fans, it's been a long, hard decade of cold turkey—no Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) in their trademark sharp suits and shades, no nifty neuralyzers, no wry banter as they battled illegal aliens and casually s...
As a cinematographer, Brett Pawlak is a product of digital.
While a woman who has given birth may not agree, there seems to be something birth-like about a film that you put your whole heart and soul into.
Epic sci-fi tales never come cheap, with Walt Disney Pictures reportedly spending $250 million on John Carter, the new Martian odyssey set on the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and based on a classic novel by Tarzan creator...
Check the Wikipedia page for director Alex Cox, and some of the categories that show up at the bottom of the page are, "1954 Births, Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford, English anarchists, English film directors, University of...
Under pressure to share his technologies with the military, Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), along with Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Col. James "Rhodey" Rhodes (Don Cheadle), faces new enemies as he struggles to keep his technology out of the hands of...
Bradford Young is all about pushing the boundaries. In his latest efforts to keep pushing, he's currently off in Sri Lanka with Tibetan director Khyentse Norbu filming a feature about class struggle in India.
With its suspenseful, violent and downright creepy tale of a crusading Swedish journalist (played by James Bond star Daniel Craig) and messed-up, but brilliant, hacker (Rooney Mara) as an odd couple who team up to solve an old mystery.
Writer/illustrator Brian Selznick's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret employs a blend of artwork and text to tell the story of an orphan (Asa Butterfield) living in the walls of a 1931 Paris train station.
What do Wally Pfister, ASC, and Chris Nolan; Emmanuel Lubezki, AMC, ASC, and Terrence Malick; and Matthew Libatique, ASC, and Darren Aronofsky all have in common
While Gosling handled all the driving for which he could be insured, there were still instances when other methods were required. ...
The Harry Potter phenomenon has diversified from its literary origin to include its own amusement park and uncountable merchandising spinoffs, but the feature films derived from author J.K. Rowling's seven novels have done the most to make the brand a...
It seems only fitting that a documentary about the unconventional digital and artistic revolution our world has seen come to fruition these last few years would be shot, directed and funded in a most untraditional way.
Over the centuries, there has been a lot of speculation about pirates and their booty, and where much of that stolen treasure was hidden. ...
Pitched as Black Hawk Down meets Aliens, Columbia Pictures’ Battle: Los Angeles is a deliberate hybrid à la Predator, appealing to lovers of distinctly separate genres.
