A Cinema of Sensations (Girish)

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:05:00 GMT

... dingy workshop in the city); sound (a first kiss stolen from behind in a dark movie theater during Albert Lewin’s Pandora and the Flying Dutchman while French-dubbed voices boom from the screen, substituting for Ava Gardner and James Mason); and texture (the endlessly arresting faces and bodies of a parade of nonprofessional players in schools, bars, boulevards, markets). There is...

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Producers Turned Directors (Something Old, Nothing New)

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:47:00 GMT

... at least for a while. And Joseph L. Mankiewicz was mostly a producer before he started, as was Albert Lewin . But both Mankiewicz and Lewin were screenwriters long before they started producing, so they might be more correctly pegged as writers-turned-directors. So why is it that there are many successful writers-turned-directors, but very few successful producers-turned-directors?...

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A Cinema of Sensations (Girish)

Producers Turned Directors (Something Old, Nothing New)