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Writer-directors Kathryn Bigelow and Monty Montgomery’s 1981 American outlaw biker drama film The Loveless stars Willem Dafoe in his first starring role, Robert Gordon, Marin Kanter, Danny Rosen and J Don Ferguson. It is Bigelow’s […]
The 1962 Italian film La Commare Secca [The Grim Reaper] is written and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci in his extraordinarily confident, stylish and successful directorial debut at the of age 21, with his screenplay based […]
Co-writer/director Rose Troche’s low-budget 1994 offbeat romantic comedy drama Go Fish is fresh, funny and frank. Co-written by the film’s star, Guinevere Turner, it is a groundbreaking, relevant movie celebrating lesbian culture with style and […]
The 1957 American teenage exploitation drama The Delinquents is the first film directed by Robert Altman and the first to star Tom Laughlin. It also helped to kick start Richard Bakalyan’s career playing juvenile delinquents. […]
Director Ray Lawrence’s 1985 provocative Australian fantasy comedy drama Bliss is an Australian Film Institute Best Film/ Best Director/ Best Adapted Screenplay-winner about an adman who tries to shake himself to life again after the […]
Asked to make his directorial debut by longtime producer friend A C Lyles, James Cagney takes his one and only walk behind the cameras to direct this carefully made, fairly successful and effective American film noir version of Graham […]
Jeff Schechtman, the co-producer of Piranha (1978), went on to produce a troubled sequel, Piranha Part Two: The Spawning [Piranha II: The Spawning], in 1981, directed by James Cameron no less. It stars Tricia O’Neil […]