The movies that only won Academy Awards for ‘Best Director’
A strange and contradictory win.
Author: Emily Ruuskanen Archives: 01/2025
The actors Meryl Streep modelled her career on: “They were just women being women”
The power of authenticity.
‘Brimstone and Treacle’: the blasphemous movie nobody was allowed to see for over a decade
A controversial writer.
Stanley Kubrick on the number one enemy of every filmmaker: “Extremely unfair”
A sorely debated subject.
‘City Heat’: When Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood were fired on the same day
A strange influence on each other.
‘The Aviator’: The first movie Leonardo DiCaprio felt personally responsible for
An added sense of pressure.
“I threw it across the room”: Harrison Ford on why he should have rejected ‘Cowboys and Aliens’
A bizarre merging of worlds.
‘The Miracle Woman’: how Frank Capra made an enemy of British censors
A controversial classic that stepped over the line.