In Memoriam

In Boxcar Bertha, Scorsese, 1972The actor, who was in his way as much a cinema icon as a television one, was found dead in a Bangkok hotel room, according to…

"She's b-b-b-b-beautiful," a flummoxed WIlbur—Lou Costello in a signature role—exclaims mere seconds after receiving an entirely unexpected kiss from Joan Raymond. Little does he know that her proclaimed "love at…

Black Narcissus, directors Powell and Pressburger, 1947War and Peace, director King Vidor, 1956 Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, director Albert Lewin, 1951 The Barefoot Contessa, director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1954…

From The Red Shoes, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948I think I can say without fear of contradiction that he was the Midas of cinematographers—everything he lit turned to beauty.…

He was a genuinely provocative thinker and an immaculate writer. His fiction and his critical work are of equal interest. If you don't know his books, well, Crash, The Atrocity…

In Rabid, 1976David Cronenberg discusses casting, and working with, Marilyn Chambers in his low-budget picture Rabid, from the 1992 book Cronenberg on Cronenberg: Ivan just said, "It would be really great for…