Curated playlist
Film theorists
- Martin ScorseseMartin Scorsese's love of movies began because asthma kept him out of games.
- Steven SpielbergSteven Spielberg walked into Universal Studios without a pass, and the guard waved him in.
- Roger EbertRoger Ebert typed his last blog post two days before he died. He signed off with "I'll see you at the movies."
- François TruffautIn 1958 François Truffaut was the only French critic not invited to Cannes. A year later, Cannes gave him Best Director.
- Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze never trimmed his fingernails. He once explained that he lacked "normal protective fingerprints", and so could not "touch an object, particularly a piece of cloth, with the pads of my fingers without sharp pain". It is a…
- Jean-Luc GodardJean-Luc Godard dropped his script and wrote dialogue day by day for the film Breathless.
- Dziga VertovThe term cinéma vérité was taken from Dziga Vertov's newsreel series Kino-Pravda, meaning "film truth".
- Lev KuleshovLev Kuleshov showed the same actor's face beside soup, a coffin and a woman. Audiences saw hunger, grief and desire.
- Peter BiskindPeter Biskind's own named source denied the Todd Haynes story he printed. Roger Ebert denied it too.
- Sergei EisensteinSergei Eisenstein reached Hollywood in May 1930 and was sent home within five months.
- Slavoj ŽižekSlavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher whom one admirer called the Elvis of cultural theory and whom another label dubbed the most dangerous philosopher in the West. He was born on the 21st of March 1949 and has written over 50 books. He…