Tag: Billy Wilder
1957 in Film: Witness for the Prosecution
Doug Jamieson March 26, 2020
In a year of strong Best Picture contenders, there’s generally that one film (or occasionally several) that likely would have won, if it hadn’t been…
Posted in Festival
Festival de Cannes 72 Countdown: The Lost Weekend, 1946
Doug Jamieson April 30, 2019
We excitedly countdown to the 72nd Festival de Cannes with a different prize winning film each day. The Lost Weekend, 1946 Grand Prix du Festival…
Genre Blast: Stop the Presses! The Journalism Genre
Steve Schweighofer December 22, 2017
“Journalism is the first draft of history,” Phil Graham, newspaper publisher and part owner of the Washington Post, once said. I would add that films about journalism – whether fictional or based on true events – would be the postscript to history, with license.