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The Film When he earned his Master's Degree in Drama from the University of Southern California in 1950, Sam Peckinpah ended his involvement in theater and started work in television, which he saw as his way into the movies. Growing up in California...
The Film Journalism paved the way for John Boorman to make documentaries for the BBC, which in turn paved the way for him to make feature films. His first was a vehicle for the band Dave Clark Five called Catch us if You Can , meant to emulate the success...
The Film This summer Tony Scott’s remake of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three was released to theaters. I haven’t seen it, but since we are currently passing through 1974 it seems only fitting to take a look back at the original directed...
The Film Graduating from UCLA film school in the mid 1960s, Francis Coppola would be the first of the "film school generation" to infiltrate Hollywood. Although Finian's Rainbow (Fred Astaire's final movie) was a flop, he had minor success...
The Film John Schlesinger began directing television and feature films in Britain during the late 1950s and early 1960s. His early work is part of a movement in that country called Kitchen Sink Realism . Mr. Schlesinger would go on to work in the United...