Somewhere between William Castle’s rebirth in the late fifties as the genius movie marketeer of such gimmicks as Emergo (House on Haunted Hill), Percepto (The Tingler), Illusion-o (13 Ghosts) or death by fright insurance policies (Macabre) and his prolific stint as a B-unit director in the forties and early fifties for Harry Cohn at Columbia [...]

You might not know the name but you have probably heard his music and the unmistakable sound of his harmonica on countless Italian film scores. The plaintive wail of his instrument on ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968) was used as a musical motif for Charles Bronson’s avenging angel, who was identified simply [...]

Humphrey Deforest Bogart models his new flippers.       

Have you ever had a fantasy about running and programming your own repertory cinema? Any self-proclaimed film buff probably has and, for me, it was a real but barely articulated desire from the time I was seven. Unlike the kids who wanted to be firemen, magicians, astronauts, cops, forest rangers, professional athletes, I could see [...]

…and that feeling is so dark, deep and numb it shouldn’t be disturbed.    

For the early settlers of this country, the New World offered freedom as well as the unknown…..    

What if Jesus Christ was a donkey?        

Made during the early period of Marlene Dietrich’s career at Paramount, THE SONG OF SONGS (1933) is usually overlooked amid the Josef von Sternberg collaborations that made her famous such as The Blue Angel (1930), Morocco (1930) and Shanghai Express (1932). Yet, it provides a fascinating look at Dietrich under a different director (Rouben Mamoulian) [...]

Those who follow the current art scene and are well versed in art history know William Klein as one of the most influential American photographers to emerge in the fifties along with his contemporary Robert Frank. Famous for his unconventional fashion shoots for Vogue as well as his candid documentation of New York City street [...]