Trailer for Jordorowsky’s DUNE is as insane as the man himself

I love everything director Alejandro Jordorowsky does. I fell in love with his films back in the nineties when I watched Sante Sangre, on VHS, for the first time. Strangely enough, it wouldn’t be for another five years that I watched his classics like The Holy Mountain and El Topo, The Holy Mountain being the

One of the greatest Halloween pranks. Listen to the Orson Welles radio adaptation of ‘The War of the Worlds.’ 74 years ago yesterday it panicked the nation

Turn off the tv, turn on the mood lighting, and listen to the still haunting broadcast of this Orson Welles classic Halloween prank.  The October 30, 1938 radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells brought Orson Welles instant fame. The combination of the news bulletin form of the performance with

“APOCALYPSE NOW” DOCUMENTARY “HEARTS OF DARKNESS” GETS A MAKEOVER

The 1902 book Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad was the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola‘s 1979 Vietnam War drama Apocalypse Now. The books name became the name of the documentary directed by Max Bahr and George Hickenlooper that chronicles the making of Apocalypse Now. In film school this excellent documentary was required viewing

TO COMMEMORATE ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S BIRTHDAY HERE’S A COLLECTION OF ALL HIS CAMEOS

  Before I really got to know Alfred Hitchcock’s work I wrote him off as just another film director and then I graduated high school and got a job working at the Hitchcock Attraction at Universal Studios Orlando. It was then that I learned about just how innovative and forward this guys films really were.