The Search for André De Toth
André De Toth knew from the very beginning that he had to create a larger-than-life persona for him to be trusted with directing a picture. So he played the European[…]
Author: Steven Kovacs
Steven Kovacs wrote From Enchantment to Rage: The Story of Surrealist Cinema and has published articles on film, politics, and the arts. He has taught at Stanford and was Chair and Professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. Recipient of an Academy Award nomination for the documentary Arthur and Lillie, he went on to be head of production at Roger Corman’s New World Pictures, where he oversaw a number of films including Deathsport and Avalanche, and produced The Lady in Red. He has written and directed the feature films ’68 and Angel Blue.
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Hungarian Plays into American Movies: Billy Wilder’s Five Graves to Cairo and One, Two, Three
Billy Wilder turned to these two plays because they offered the situations, structure, and characters that would allow his imagination to flower and create contemporary stories – a patriotic military[…]
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How Did Hungarians Do It? The Hungarian World of Ernst Lubitsch
Lubitsch biographers and critics have accepted the lore that the Hungarian plays he used for his films were inferior. That widely held perception has come about because Lubitsch’s admirers want[…]
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