Two new documentaries about Hollywood craftsmen opened in Los Angeles this week: Something’s Gonna Live and Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (already on DVD in the UK). Both focus on likeable professionals and are brimming with movie clips, making them compulsive viewing, but I ultimately found the former much more compelling [...]
Entries from September 2010
New Documentaries on Filmmakers
September 14th, 2010 by Doug Cummings · 1 Comment
Categories: Film review
Upstream (1927)
September 1st, 2010 by Doug Cummings · No Comments
Yesterday, I attended the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ preview of the world re-premiere of John Ford’s Upstream (1927), which screens for the public tonight. “Re-premiere” because the film was long believed to have been lost before it was rediscovered last year in the New Zealand Film Archive; the film is part [...]
Categories: Film review