Category Archives: director

Coen Brothers films ranked

Posted on November 18, 2015 by filmappreciationwithcraig

You can find all sorts of reviews on films and rankings of directors, etc but I think this is a good look at 16 of the Coen brother’s films ranked from #16 to #1 click here

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Coen Brothers – pick any film and you’ll enjoy it

Posted on November 17, 2015 by filmappreciationwithcraig

They are quirky, funny, odd . . . . they work side by side, writing and planning each film and know exactly what they want.  Actors like working with them because their direction is so confident and they know how … Continue reading →

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Richard Curtis

Posted on November 10, 2015 by filmappreciationwithcraig

I sent an email with a link to him, very talented writer and director from the UK.  Love Actually is one of his more acclaimed movies.  He did not direct Four Weddings and a Funeral but wrote the screenplay.  You … Continue reading →

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Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening – Frank Capra, Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman

Posted on November 2, 2015 by filmappreciationwithcraig

As many of you know, I’ve been reading Capra’s autobiography “The Name Above the Title”.  I’m more convinced than ever, he is the greatest director of all time and I might conceive of a film series dedicated to his film … Continue reading →

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Blazing Saddles – short interview with Mel Brooks

Posted on November 2, 2015 by filmappreciationwithcraig

Anytime you get to hear Mel talk about Blazing Saddles, you get humor up the ying-yang . . . . . . click here for the YouTube video

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Take the Money and Run – Woody Allen’s directorial debut

Posted on October 26, 2015 by filmappreciationwithcraig

here are two reviews from subscribers at IMDB.com From blackmail, to murder plots, to life on a chain-gang, to committing just about every petty crime in the book, Take The Money and Run, which clearly showcases Woody Allen’s signature atheist/pinko … Continue reading →

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Frank Capra

Posted on September 12, 2015 by filmappreciationwithcraig

I’m now reading his autobiography and discovered that he was instrumental in the success of the Hal Roach studios and many comedies in the late 20’s and early 30’s.  His film “It Happened One Night” was the first to receive … Continue reading →

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Directing Style – John Frankenheimer

Posted on August 9, 2015 by filmappreciationwithcraig

The director of Seven Days in May considered the scene in which Kirk Douglas’s character visits the president to be a masterful scene of acting which would have been technically very difficult for most actors to sustain. John Frankenheimer had … Continue reading →

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Guerrilla film making during Seven Days in May . . . and a little about John Houseman

Posted on August 3, 2015 by filmappreciationwithcraig

In an early example of guerrilla film making, during the filming of Seven Days in May, John Frankenheimer filmed Martin Balsam being ferried out to the super carrier USS Kitty Hawk, berthed at Naval Air Station North Island in San … Continue reading →

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Orson Welles

Posted on July 27, 2015 by filmappreciationwithcraig

Thanks to Terry for sending me this link on Youtube of some old footage Wells made but never finished. Click here

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