Hippydom’s high holy day, August 15, marks the anniversary of those three days of peace, love, and mud known as Woodstock. Those who care about the iconic rock festival know […]
Category: film
Mancini’s Pink Panther hits 50
In the spring and summer of 1964, the Blake Edwards film The Pink Panther, starring Peter Sellers, became a huge hit. The farcical tale of an incompetent French detective matching wits with a […]
Ebertfest hosts Spike Lee and VIPs get SPIKE LEE
The UIP has been partnering with Champaign’s annual Roger Ebert Film Festival for several years now, contributing books from the Contemporary Film Directors Series for the Fest to give to […]
Q&A with C. Francis Jenkins biographer Donald Godfrey
Donald G. Godfrey is a broadcast educator, professional broadcaster, and historian. Godfrey is also a past president of the national Broadcast Education Association (BEA), a former editor of the Journal of […]
Happy birthday, Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson “Spike” Lee was born March 20, 1957. With a long varies career that has spanned independent films such as his debut She’s Gotta Have It (1986), to mainstream, big-budget films including […]
Happy birthday to filmmaker Jacques Rivette
French film director Jacques Rivette was born on March 1, 1928. A member of the French New Wave, alongside François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, Rivette is best known for his films Celine and Julie Go […]
Contemporary Film Directors $2.99 eBook sale
For the month of March we have lowered the e-book list price of 20+ titles in our Contemporary Film Directors series to $2.99. Click here to view the full list. […]
Happy birthday, David Lynch
Filmmaker David Lynch was born in Missoula, Montana on January 20, 1946. The director of films including Mulholland Drive (2001) and Dune (1984) and the tv series Twin Peaks (1990) is […]
Happy birthday, Steven Soderbergh
January 14, 2014 is film director Steven Soderberg’s 51st birthday. The profile filmmaker is the subject of Contemporary Film Directors series title Steven Soderbergh by Aaron Baker. Soderbergh’s film career is […]
Carole Boyce Davies finds a ‘missed opportunity’ in 12 Years a Slave
Carole Boyce Davies, author of Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones has written about some of differences between the film 12 Years a Slave and the 1854 memoir penned by […]
‘Dario Argento’ author talks with Dario Argento
Italian film director Dario Argento is best known for his work in the style of giallo, the crime/thriller mixture that influenced the slasher genre. Argento has gained acclaim from horror […]
Annette Insdorf asks Philip Kaufman about ‘The Right Stuff’
On October 9th, 2013 the Motion Picture Association of America celebrated the 30th Anniversary of Philip Kaufman’s film The Right Stuff in Washington, D.C. The MPAA hosted an event that […]