Orson Welles was Parkinson's first coup. He agreed to appear in the show's first year, 1971, but only, Parkinson recalls: "if we knocked the first two rows out of a jet so he could sleep on a mattress." "We did it… he walked on the plane, looked at the mattress on the floor and...
Lynchian. Hitchcockian. The Lubitsch touch. Transforming a filmmaker’s name into a qualitative term has been a common practice in tracking the style and influence of those who have contributed to the art form. But few proper nouns-turned-adjectives carry a greater reserve of meaning than Felliniesque. Felliniesque can refer to a carnival style, one that...
Apollo & Adonis Creed where named after geek Gods, that's what Sylvester Stallone said on "The Directors Chair". But the inspiration of his characters are based on real life boxers, there is a hard case that Charles "Chuck" Wepner was the inspiration of Rocky Balboa. Chuck went 15 rounds with Muhammad Ali and that itself was considered to...
NWP's Top 10 Cinematographers of 2015 10: Creed " Maryse Alberti" 9:Son Of Saul "Matyas Erdely" 8: Straight Outta Compton "Mattew Libatique" 7: Timbuktu "Safian El Fani" 6: Wild Tales "Javier Julia" 5:Sicario "Roger Deakins" 4: Beasts Of A Nation "Cary Joji Fukunage" 3: Black Mass "Masanobu Takayanagi" 2: The Revenant "Emmanuel Lubezki" 1: The Hateful Eight "Robert Richardson" ...