Michelle Pffeifer made her film debut in 1980 in The Hollywood’s Knight but didn’t gain mainstream attention until her breakout performance opposite Al Pacino in 1983’s Scarface and since then she has...
Robert De Niro has been a Hollywood heavyweight for decades, and is one of the most respected actors in the business. To celebrate the release of his latest action filled thriller The Family, out on B...
In his film Epidemic, Lars von Trier (portraying himself) comments that “a film ought to be like a pebble in your shoe.” This has always been my philosophy, as well, both as a film-viewer and a film-m...
The recent independent sci-fi thriller “Dust of War” was shot in 30 days on an under-$200,000 budget, director Andrew Kightlinger told BU Today. That’s peanuts compared to the averag...
In the early days of film making audio was provided at the picture house usually by a solo musician at the piano who would play mood music and the occasional audio effect. This was commonly a slapstic...
