He was one of the most influential directors of all time who was never honoured with an Academy Award for his work as a director: …
Billy Wilder: From Ghost Writer to Director of the Century
His career began as a ghostwriter in Berlin in the twenties: between 1927 and 1929, Wilder is said to have worked on almost fifty scripts …
Alfred Hitchcock: Master of the Cinema
He went down in film history as the “master of suspense”: building suspense in a film that keeps the viewer glued to the cinema seat …
David Lean: The Visual Novelist
This article is published on 25 March 2023 to mark the 115th anniversary of David Lean’s birth. David Lean’s parents were Quakers: in Quaker belief, …
Jean-Luc Godard: All The World’s a Cinema
“Everything is cinema”: this quote is attributed to the French-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard. If one deals with the work of Jean-Luc Godard, one is …
Leni Riefenstahl & physical exercises
For a lot of readers, the German expression “Leibesübungen“ certainly is unknown. “Leibesübungen“ can be translated with “physical exercises“. The “Leibesübungen“ have a lot in …