“Death is on the back of everyone’s minds whether they want to admit it or not” – Francis Ford Coppola on July 28, 1996. Interview by R.H. Greene when Coppola was promoting his film, “JACK,” starring Robin Williams. (Source: PBS…
‘THE LOVERS & THE DESPOT’: North Korean Dictator Loved Movies So Much He Kidnapped His Star and Director
By Barry Rubinow It’s become a cliché to say that wild and crazy news stories, although true, would be rejected by the movie studios as too preposterous, if they were pitched as a script. In the remarkable new documentary THE…
‘THE LOVERS & THE DESPOT’: North Korean Dictator Loved Movies So Much He Kidnapped His Director and Star
By Barry Rubinow It’s become a cliché to say that wild and crazy news stories, although true, would be rejected by the movie studios as too preposterous, if they were pitched as a script. In the remarkable new documentary THE…
Getting to Know Bob Dylan
A BBC film about Bob Dylan’s starring role in the movie HEARTS OF FIRE, directed by Richard Marquand and co-starring Fiona and Rupert Everett. (Source: Christopher Sykes)
Jason Miller (Priest from “The Exorcist”) Interviewed About Making His Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Play Into a Film
My mother, Penny Crofton, spotted an excellent documentary on PBS the other night called “Miller’s Tale.” It’s a biographical film about playwright and actor Jason Miller. He’s the father of the actor Jason Patric, but more importantly he wrote “That…