Samuel Fuller
Who was Samuel Fuller? Samuel Fuller was an American director, screenwriter, and novelist. He has been called “the last great Hollywood author” and has directed 30 films in his career. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts on August 12, 1912 to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants from Kiev; Samuel studied journalism / communications at the University of Illinois before […]
Orson Welles
Orson Welles and the beginnings with the theater Orson Welles is among the most famous directors in the history of cinema. He was born in a wealthy family in Wisconsin from a pianist mother and inventor father from whom he inherited both talents: already as a child he plays the piano and plays games of […]
Alfred Hitchcock
Who Was Alfred Hitchcock? The one who would become one of the most famous directors of all time was the son of a modest family of merchants, his father was a fruit and vegetable trader, Alfred Hitchcock studied in a strict boarding school of Jesuit fathers. After the loss of his father he enrolled in […]
David Lynch: Life and Movies
David’s Childhood David Lynch is among the most famous directors of all time. He was born in Missoula, Montana, on January 20, 1946. His father, Donald Walton Lynch was a research researcher working for the United States Department of Agriculture, and his mother, Edwina “Sunny” Lynch, is was an English teacher. Lynch lived his early […]
Best B Movie to Watch
At the antipodes of what are considered unmissable movies and masterpieces are the B movies. But in some cases, over time, the value of some of these B films has been reassessed to cult status. B Movie: Meaning The term b movie comes from the English definition that film studios used to give to minor […]
Sherlock Holmes Movies to Watch
Before moving on to the list of the best films to watch about Sherlock Holmes, the most famous private investigator in the world, let’s take a look at how the literary character of Sherlock Holmes, his author, his story was born. The books of Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes is a literary character of mystery stories […]
A Better Life
The Plot of A Better Life The protagonist of the film A better Life is Andrea Casadei, lives in Rome, a city filmed by director Fabio del Greco in a dark black and white full of shadows. Andrea, played by Fabio del Greco himself, accepts commissioned jobs from husbands betrayed by their wives, or from […]
Dystopian Movies to Watch Absolutely
Among the most famous films in the history of cinema there is a sub-genre that generates a lot of interest: that of dystopian films. In a dystopian film the heart of the story is a dystopia, an imaginary reality projected into the imminent future of a totalitarian and totally negative society. It can take on […]
Fabio Del Greco, Life and Films
Fabio del Greco was born in 1974 in Pescara, an Abruzzo city on the Adriatic Sea. Already in elementary school he wrote short stories. The first movie he sees in the cinema is Flash Gordon, and the experience in the theater affects him deeply. At the age of 10 he discovers Steven Spielberg’s cinema. At […]
