Writers on Film
159 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 14 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe only podcast to focus on film books and to talk to the best authors working in the area of cinema. From Making ofs to biographies, studies to novelisations, I'm fascinated by where the written word intersects with the world of the big screen.
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Paul Duncan on Dr. No
April 24, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour - 51.4 MBPaul Duncan talks Dr. No, and the making of James Bond's first cinematic asdventure. Book now available from Taschen. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ed Zwick on Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions
April 17, 2024 05:00 - 49 minutes - 39.5 MBA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends of the Fall, About Last Night, and Glory, creator of the show thirtysomething, and executive producer of My So-Called Life, gives a dishy, behind-the-scenes look at working with some of the biggest names in Hollywood. “I’ll be dropping a few names,” Ed Zwick confesses in the introduction to his book. “Over the y...
Robert P Kolker and Marsha Gordon talk Film, Form and Culture
April 10, 2024 05:00 - 57 minutes - 44.7 MBThis fifth edition of Film, Form, and Culture by Robert P Kolker and Marsha Gordon offers a lively introduction to both the formal and cultural aspects of film. Additional resources for students and teachers can be found on the eResource, which includes case studies, discussion questions, and links to useful websites. Get the book HERE. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Neil Alcock talks Hitchcock and Hitchology
April 03, 2024 04:08 - 50 minutes - 43 MBMURDER! MOTHERS! MEN ON THE RUN! Film fans know these are just a few key ingredients of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies. When Hitchcock fused these elements with his innovative directorial approach, that blend of familiar themes and stylistic ingenuity became known as ‘Hitchcockian’. In a refreshingly original way, HITCHOLOGY considers how Hitchcock used these narrative tropes and formal flourishes to create some of cinema’s most unforgettable experiences. Alongside unique takes on every film an...
Oscar Winning Screenwriter Bruce Rubin talks about his Life
March 27, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 52 MBBruce Joel Rubin is the Oscar winning screenwriter of Brainstorm, Ghost and Jacob's Ladder among others. His memoir It's Only a Movie is availbale here. And his book Three Visionary Screenplays is also available via this link. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Christian Esquevin talks Designing Hollywood
March 20, 2024 06:00 - 46 minutes - 30.7 MBSince the 1920s, fashion has played a central role in Hollywood. As the movie-going population consisted largely of women, studios made a concerted effort to attract a female audience by foregrounding fashion. Magazines featured actresses like Jean Harlow and Joan Crawford bedecked in luxurious gowns, selling their glamour as enthusiastically as the film itself. Whereas actors and actresses previously wore their own clothing, major studios hired costume designers and wardrobe staff to fabric...
Tom Shone on the Oscars and Dune Part 2
March 13, 2024 05:59 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBTom Shone is the bestselling author of The Nolan Variations, among several other books on cinema. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Stephen Lee Naish on Dennis Hopper, film director
March 06, 2024 05:57 - 1 hour - 51.3 MBStephen's book is availble here. Across his directorial films, American filmmaker Dennis Hopper used music and sound to propel the narrative, signpost the era in which the films were made, and delineate the characters’ place within American culture. This book explores five of Hopper’s films to show how this deep engagement with music to build character and setting continued throughout his career, as Hopper used folk, punk, hip-hop, and jazz to shape the worlds of his films in ways that inf...
Kubrick: an Odyssey
February 28, 2024 06:05 - 1 hour - 49.1 MBThe definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange, presenting the most in-depth portrait yet of the groundbreaking film-maker. The enigmatic and elusive filmmaker Stanley Kubrick has not been treated to a full-length biography in over twenty years. Stanley Kubrick: An Odyssey fills that gap. This definitive book is based on access to the latest research, especially Kubrick's archive at the University of the Arts, London, as well as other ...
Ellen E. Jones on Screen Deep
February 21, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 52 MBScreen Deep:How film and TV can solve racism and save the world is a book about the immense potential of screen storytelling to defeat an evil both historic and urgently topical: racism. Everyone watches TV and movies. Everyone has an interest in building a more just and equitable world. Screen Deep goes beyond the many film books and anti-racist manuals by demonstrating the connection between these two aspects of modern life. In Screen Deep Ellen E. Jones combines her personal experience ...
Michael Schulman on the Oscar Wars
February 14, 2024 14:31 - 1 hour - 53.4 MBFrom Harper Collins: A Best Book of 2023 The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama. America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For nine decades, perfectly coiffed starlets, debonair leading men, and producers with gold in their eyes have chased the elusive Oscar. What began as an industry banq...
From the Archives: Ti Singh is Born to Be Bad
February 10, 2024 07:41 - 57 minutes - 59 MBTimon Singh is the author of Born to Be Bad and Born to Be Bad Part 2. He is also a writer and producer on the film In Search of the Last Action Heroes. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Beatles v James Bond
January 31, 2024 06:32 - 1 hour - 49.9 MBFrom Simon and Schuster: A deep-dive into the unique connections between the two titans of the British cultural psyche—the Beatles and the Bond films—and what they tell us about class, sexuality, and our aspirations over sixty dramatic years. The Beatles are the biggest band in the history of pop music. James Bond is the single most successful movie character of all time. They are also twins. Dr No, the first Bond film, and Love Me Do, the first Beatles record, were both released on the s...
From the Tromsø International Film Festival
January 24, 2024 06:31 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBI speak to programmer and board member John-Kristian Dalseth, head of the Sami Film Institute Anne Lajla Utsi, Artistic Director of TIFF Lisa Hoen and film director Ethan Coen at the northern most film festival in the world: the Tromsø International Film Festival. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Last Action Heroes
January 17, 2024 06:20 - 1 hour - 50.3 MBThe behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved films that made them stars, including Die Hard, First Blood, The Terminator, and more. “This book takes you so close to the action that you can smell the sweat, cigar smoke, and bad cologne that brought these movies to life.”—Paul Scheer A NEWSWEEK BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The Last Action Heroes opens in May 1990 in Cannes, with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone waltzing together, c...
Sam Wasson talks Francis Ford Coppola
January 10, 2024 06:08 - 59 minutes - 44 MBThe New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with the definitive account of Academy Award-winning director Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-long dream to reinvent American filmmaking, if not the entire world, through his production company American Zoetrope. Francis Ford Coppola is one of the great American dreamers, and his most magnificent dream is American Zoetrope, the production company he founded in San Francisco years before his gargantu...
Bonus Episode: Cinema Italia
January 04, 2024 10:28 - 1 hour - 47.2 MBChief film critic of The Hollywood Reporter David Rooney joins John Bleasdale to talk about Federico Fellini's 1957 masterpiece Le Notti di Cabiria, Nights of Cabiria, starring Giulietta Masina as a sex worker in a Rome on the edge of La Dolce Vita. Massina won Best Actress at Cannes and the film was the second Oscar in a row for Fellini. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
From the Archives: Tales from Development Hell with David Hughes
December 27, 2023 14:53 - 1 hour - 129 MBIn this episode I talk to David Hughes, a journalist turned screenwriter who is also the author of a number of books on cinema. The Greatest Science Fiction Film Never Made and Tales from Development Hell are two riveting reads about all the films that almost got made and their tortured pre-production history. We also talk Stanley Kubrick (briefly) and David Lynch. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Happy Christmas Movies, Jeremy Arnold
December 20, 2023 06:02 - 1 hour - 56 MBJeremy Arnold is the author of Christmas in the Movies (Revised & Expanded Edition): 35 Classics to Celebrate the Season (Turner Classic Movies) Now revised and expanded with more beloved films and loads of special features and photos across 70+ pages of new content, this is the must-have viewing guide for the holidays, showcasing the greatest and most beloved Christmas movies of all time. Nothing brings the spirit of the season into our hearts quite like a great holiday movie. Turner Clas...
Connery - a novel
December 14, 2023 17:10 - 9 minutes - 10.7 MBThe first chapter of a new series CONNERY - A Fiction. Connery was written by John Bleasdale, performed by Cai Ross with music by Two Minute Noodles. Their music is available here. Further episodes are available from wherever you get your podcasts. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
From the Archives: Paul Cronin's Guide for the Perplexed
December 13, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 73.5 MBJohn Bleasdale talks to Paul Cronin about his books on Werner Herzog and Abbas Kiarostami and his work on Alexander MacKendrick. We also talk story structure, the history of the Faber Film Books and screenwriting. In many ways this becomes a much broader conversation and encompasses much about storytelling and what makes a film a film. Check out Paul's website here His recommended book is Amos Vogel's Film as Subversive Art and Alexander McKendrick's On Filmmaking. Support this show http...
Cai Ross talks The Prisoner and Connery
December 06, 2023 06:09 - 1 hour - 50.6 MBCai Ross along with Chris Bainbridge is the author of Free for All and the co-host of the podcast of the same name, exploring all things The Prisoner related. He is also the voice of the new podcast written by Writers on Film host John Bleasdale Connery. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jem Duducu talks Napoleon
November 29, 2023 06:10 - 1 hour - 53.1 MBJem Duducu talks Ridley Scott's new film Napoleon, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Virginia Kirkby. Jem is the host of the Condensed Histories podcast, the author of Hollywood and History and The Napoleonic Wars in a Hundred Facts. Jem’s first love has always been history, ever since he saw the Sutton Hoo helmet as a small boy. He now works as a freelance trainer which has allowed him to hone his presentation and communications skills and has been posting articles about history online since 20...
From the Archive: Talking memoirs with Gabriel Byrne
November 23, 2023 10:04 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBJohn Bleasdale talks to actor, producer, director and author Gabriel Byrne about his autobiography. Walking with Ghosts is the stunningly evocative memoir by Irish actor and Hollywood star, Gabriel Byrne. 'Dreamy, lyrical and utterly unvarnished' – Colm Tóibín As a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin, Gabriel Byrne sought refuge in a world of imagination among the fields and hills near his home, at the edge of a rapidly encroaching city. Born to working-class parents and the ...
Mark Wheeler on Sorcerer
November 15, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 68.4 MBWilliam Friedkin’s film Sorcerer (1977) has been subject to a major re-evaluation in the last decade. A dark re-imagining of the French Director H.G. Clouzot’s Le Salaire de la Peur (The Wages of Fear) (1953) (based on George Arnaud’s novel); the film was a major critical and commercial failure on its initial release. Friedkin’s work was castigated as an example of directorial hubris as it was a notoriously difficult production which went wildly over-budget. It was viewed at the time as the ...
Pamela Hutchinson talks The Red Shoes
November 08, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 57 MBEndlessly fascinating, dark and bright, The Red Shoes (1948) employs every branch of the cinematic arts to sweep the audience off its feet, invigorated by the transcendence of art itself, only to leave them with troubling questions. Representing the climax of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's celebrated run of six exceptional feature films, the film remains a beloved, if unsettling and often divisive, classic. Pamela Hutchinson's study of the film examines its breathtaking use of Tech...
Nancy Schoenberger talks Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
November 04, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 52.8 MBThe definitive story of Hollywood's most famous couple. He was a tough-guy Welshman softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman; she was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty, and their fiery romanceoften called "the marriage of the century"was the most notorious, publicized, and celebrated love affair of its day. For the first time, Vanity Fair contribu...
Tom Shone talks the return of the auteur blockbusters
October 25, 2023 04:31 - 1 hour - 54.7 MBAuthor of The Nolan Variations and Martin Scorsese, Tom Shone is one of the best film writers out there and a great friend of the podcast. He returns to cast his eye over the releases this year and to talk Oppenheimer and the films of Paul Greengrass, who will be the subject of his next book. Please like, leave a review, subscribe etc. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Carol Baum on Creative Producing
October 18, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 43.2 MBBuy a copy of Carol's book here. Go behind the scenes with the producer of Father of the Bride to learn all the skills necessary to be a top Hollywood producer As former co-president of Dolly Parton's production company, Sandollar, and as a successful independent producer, Carol Baum is an expert in the art of film production. Creative Producing provides a crash course in the frequently misunderstood producer's role and the many skills needed to survive and thrive in Hollywood. Readers re...
Robert Sellers on the Greatest Year in Cinema History
October 11, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 54.4 MB1971 was a great year for cinema. Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Dario Argento, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, Sergio Leone, George Lucas, Sam Peckinpah, Roman Polanski, Nicolas Roeg and Steven Spielberg, among many others, were behind the camera, while the stars were also out in force. Warren Beatty, Marlon Brando, Michael Caine, Julie Christie, Sean Connery, Faye Dunaway, Clint Eastwood, Jane Fonda, Dustin Hoffman, Steve McQueen, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino and Vanessa Redgrave all featured i...
Demetrios Matheou talks Means Streets at 50
October 04, 2023 04:12 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBMean Streets was Martin Scorsese's third feature film, and the one that confirmed him as a major new talent. On its premiere at the New York Film Festival in 1973, the critic Pauline Kael hailed the film as 'a true original of our period, a triumph of personal film-making'. The tale of combative friends and small-time crooks is set amid the bars, pool halls, tenements and streets of Manhattan's Little Italy. Scorsese has said of his childhood neighbourhood, 'its very texture was interwoven w...
Clint Eastwood by Ian Nathan
September 27, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 49.5 MBClint Eastwood is Hollywood’s elder statesman and its conscience. He is the standard by which other films and filmmakers are judged. He represents both classical Hollywood and an entirely modern, uncompromising and unfussy directorial presence. There are those who adore him as a cowboy, a superstar, the rugged, unyielding yet introspective face of American machismo. There are those who read him as a great American auteur fashioning uncompromising, fascinating, intellectual films about his c...
Chris Yogerst talks The Warner Brothers
September 20, 2023 05:09 - 58 minutes - 43.1 MBFriend of the podcast and cultural historian Chris Yogerst critically celebrates the century of Warner Bros by looking at the family behind the studio The Warner Brothers. You can buy your copy here (among other outlets). And Chris recommended Sam Wasson's The Big Goodbye and Scott Eyman's upcoming Charlie Chaplin biography. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jem Duducu talks Hollywood and History
September 13, 2023 05:06 - 1 hour - 66.7 MBJem Duducu talks Hollywood v History. Buy his new book here. And listen to his podcast here. Here's the blurb of his book: There is no shortage of Hollywood films about historical events, but what do the movies actually get right, and why do they get so much wrong? Hollywood loves a story: good guys versus bad guys, heroes winning the day, and the guy gets the girl. But we all know real life isn’t exactly like that, and this is even more true when we look at history. Rarely do the just ...
In conversation with Lawrence Grobel
September 06, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBLawrence Grobel is a freelance writer who has written 31 books and for numerous national magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, Newsday, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Reader's Digest, American Way, Parade, Details, TV Guide, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Penthouse, Diversion, Writer's Digest, and AARP. He has been a contributing editor at Playboy, Movieline, Hollywood Life, Autograph, New Zealand's World, Bulgaria's Ego, and Poland's Trendy magazines. Playboy called him "the...
Molly Haskell talks film criticism, feminism and cinephilia
August 30, 2023 05:06 - 56 minutes - 40 MBMolly Haskell is a legend of film criticism. A critic for the Village Voice, she also is one of the earliest most powerful voices in feminist film criticism, with her ground-breaking work From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies as well as books on Spielberg and Gone with the Wind. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
James Peaty on Summer Blockbusters and Oppenheimer
August 26, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 62.9 MBJames Peaty and John Bleasdale talk about the summer release and particularly the success of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. Peaty has written for publishers including Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Dark Horse Comics in the US as well as Rebellion Publishing and Titan Comics in the UK. During that time he has written for titles including The Batman Strikes!, X-Men Unlimited, Green Arrow. Supergirl, Justice League Unlimited and Doctor Who. For 2000AD he wrote and co-created Skip Tracer (with ...
Jeanine Basinger talks film history, Hollywood and the Star Machine
August 23, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBClint Eastwood called her “Truly one of my favorite people.” Her former students include Michael Bay, Joss Whedon, Laurence Mark, Akiva Goldsman, Paul Weitz, Marc Shmuger and Alex Kurtzman. She's written a dozen books and recently co-authored Hollywood: An Oral History with Sam Wasson (friend of the podcast, read his essay on Jeanine here). Jeanine Basinger is legendary and it is a true honor to have her on Writers on Film. Buy here books here. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com...
Josh Winning Burns the Negative
August 17, 2023 12:23 - 1 hour - 46.2 MBJosh Winning is a writer and film critic. Bur the book here. The Blurb ABOUT BURN THE NEGATIVE In this incendiary mash-up of horror and suspense, a notorious slasher film is remade…and the curse that haunted it is reawakened. Arriving in L.A. to visit the set of a new streaming horror series, journalist Laura Warren witnesses a man jumping from a bridge, landing right behind her car. Here we go, she thinks. It’s started. Because the series she’s reporting on is a remake of a ’90s horr...
Jason Isralowitz and Hitchcock's Wrong Man
August 09, 2023 15:43 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBNothing To Fear: Alfred Hitchcock And The Wrong Men To buy click on this link. Alfred Hitchcock is not often associated with a social justice movement. But in 1956, the world’s most famous director focused his lens on an issue that cuts to the heart of our criminal justice system: the risk of wrongful conviction. The result was The Wrong Man, a wrenching and largely overlooked drama based on the real-life arrest of Queens musician Christopher “Manny” Balestrero for two robberies he did n...
Warren Buckland asks: Who wrote Citizen Kane?
August 04, 2023 05:35 - 49 minutes - 33.3 MBWho wrote Citizen Kane? Orson Welles and Herman Mankiewicz or Herman Makiewicz and Orson Welles? Or David Fincher. Scholar and film writer Warren Buckland turns to the evidence and away from the prejudice to resolve the question once and for all. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sarah Welch-Larson talks Becoming Alien
July 29, 2023 09:02 - 1 hour - 46.5 MBThe Alien films are perceived to be a fractured franchise, each one loosely related to the others. They are nonlinear, complicated, convoluted: a collection of genre movies ranging from horror to war to farce. But on closer examination, the threads that bind together these films are strong and undeniable. The series is a model of Catherine Keller’s cosmology as a cycle of order out of chaos, an illustration of her concept of evil as discreation. When viewed through the lens of Keller’s Fac...
Kaleem Aftab Does the Right Thing
July 22, 2023 10:01 - 59 minutes - 46.5 MBKaleem Aftab talks about his career as a high flying journalist, publishing in The Independent and Variety among many others. He also talks about his authorship of a 'As told by' biography of Spike Lee: That's My Story and I'm Sticking to it. And gives his book recommendation. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Matt Pais talks '90s with Me
July 20, 2023 12:52 - 1 hour - 50 MBGet the book here. “Matt Pais deserves four stars for reintroducing us to many of the greatly talented but often unsung heroes of 1990s film. This is a terrific read.”—RICHARD ROEPER “Even if you’re drowning in pop culture nostalgia, Pais’ book is a fun, insightful and informative life raft.”—ROBERT K. ELDER, author of The Film That Changed My Life “Matt Pais captures an entire era succinctly and vividly. A fascinating read.”—GABRIELLE ANWAR “A love letter to my wonder years, and goes f...
Karlovy Vary Film Festival Report 2
July 17, 2023 08:10 - 47 minutes - 32.2 MBThe second part of my report on Karlovy Vary with conversations featuring Karel Och, artistic director of the festival, Ben Dalton of Screen, Deadline writer Damon Wise and Ben Nicholson from The Verdict. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
William J Mann on Bogie and Bacall
July 12, 2023 14:12 - 1 hour - 43.5 MBFrom the noted Hollywood biographer and author of The Contender comes this celebration of the great American love story—the romance between Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart—capturing its complexity, contradictions, and challenges as never before. In Bogie & Bacall, William Mann offers a deep and comprehensive look at Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, and the unlikely love they shared. Mann details their early years—Bogart’s effete upbringing in New York City; Bacall’s rise as a model and ac...
Karlovy Vary Film Festival: Part I
July 06, 2023 15:32 - 33 minutes - 21.4 MBJohn Bleasdale talks to a host of great writers attending the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. It includes Wendy Ide, Leigh Singer, Hugo Emmerzael and Marcus Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Alan Dean Foster: the Poet Laureate of the Novelisation
June 27, 2023 20:22 - 1 hour - 70.2 MBJohn Bleasdale talks to Alan Dean Foster, the poet laureate of the novelisation as well as a novelist of original fantasy and science fiction. He has recently published his memoirs The Director Should've Shot You available here. For more information and updates visit his website. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Joseph McBride talks Billy Wilder
June 21, 2023 05:04 - 1 hour - 69 MBJoseph McBride returns to Writers on Film to talk about his new book on the films of Billy Wilder. But this wide-ranging discussion doesn't stop there. Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge is available here. The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films―including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment―Billy Wilder earned acclaim as American cinema's greatest social satirist. Though an influential fixture in Hollywood, Wilder always saw himself...
Kyle Turner talks The Queer Film Guide
June 14, 2023 05:10 - 1 hour - 43 MBHappy Pride Month: Writers on Film talks with Kyle Turner on his amazing book The Queer Film Guide: 100 Great Films the tell LGBTQIA+ Stories "Kyle Turner has selected 100 of cinema’s greatest queer films that are often overlooked but foundational to the art form and the wider culture. Starting in early cinema with trailblazers like Making a Man of Her and Different from Others, the list progresses through the eras, from Hitchcock’s Rope to cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show to tod...