Khmer movies (or movies from Cambodia) are an emerging brand of films that are gaining the attention of both critics and popular audiences across the globe.  Khmer movies can be both serious and lighthearted, telling …

Foreign Correspondent, released in 1940, signified a major turning point in director Alfred Hitchcock’s career. Although the film was his second to be made in the United States, it constituted his first experience with a …

Though Punjabi movies may not be as popular or as well known as mainstream Bollywood films, they are gaining in popularity each year as Indian cinema branches to new corners of the world.  Many of …

Anyone’s who’s ever seen a movie knows that there are some pretty bad ones out there, some of them scraping the bottom of the creative bucket and collectively forming what are the worst movies of …

The saddest movies of all time can be a difficult list to conjure since what some viewers find moving, others find sappy and sentimental.  But every so often a film comes along that seems to …

Every film buff has their list of the best horror movies of all time, some of them gory and some of them of the smarter, thriller kind. But most critics and film aficionados agree on …

Cinematography techniques are of vital importance to any filmmaker as they help tell the story of the film in the most effective manner possible.  As a director of photography, it is important to learn the …

MAX OPHULS returned to France in 1949. One of the most widely travelled of directors, this German-born film maker had directed films in Germany, Italy and Holland as well as in France which was his …

Scottish Actors
Though many moviegoers may not know it, there are a great many Scottish actors in Hollywood that help fuel the celluloid factory that keeps us returning to the cinema hall.  One thing we …

by Richard von Busack
As the poem has it, why should not old men be mad? Jack Rebney, star of Ben Steinbauer’s wrath-of-a-salesman documentary Winnebago Man, (playing at San Francisco’s Roxie Theater Aug 27-Sep 2) became …