The incredibly varied and productive life of David Susskind
From Dec. 12, 2010 – In my teen years, one of my major culture heroes was David Susskind, whose TV talk show “Open End” was a family favorite. Unlike the late-night 1960s TV chat shows hosted by Johnny...
View Article‘New Yawk New Wave’: the good old bad old days
The great non-profit Film Forum in lower Manhattan has just launched a new series devoted to independent filmmaking in New York City long before the words “indie” and “Sundance” were in any movie...
View ArticleAn incredible year for movies — 1974 — turns 40
In this milestone-obsessed culture of ours, I haven’t noticed anyone yet paying tribute to the 40th anniversary of an incredible year in Hollywood history. A few weeks ago, a friend noted that his...
View Article‘$11 Billion Year’: inside the movies of 2012
Veteran Hollywood reporter Anne Thompson puts all of the jagged pieces of today’s ever-changing movie industry together in her lucid and compulsively readable new book “The $11 Billion Dollar Year”...
View ArticleLavish ‘Retrospective’ looks at Scorsese’s turbulent career
The text is as strong as the images in the lavish new Abrams coffee table book, “Martin Scorsese: A Retrospective.” Former Sunday Times of London film critic Tom Shone, who now teaches at New York...
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