Author Bruce Jackson

b. 5 August 1906, Nevada, Missouri, U.S, d. 28 August 1987, Middletown, Rhode Island, U.S. John Huston, the American director, writer and actor, was prolific, various and uneven. As a director, he worked...

Essentially a film about failure, Arthur Penn’s 1975 film comes closest to best capturing the haunting malaise that descended on post-Watergate America. Bruce Jackson takes a fresh look at a detective film without ultimate answers.

Arthur Penn’s 1975 detective thriller contains one of the most noted of references to My Night a Maud’s, but as Bruce Jackson argues, it is more than just a token nod.

In the light of Baz Luhrmann’s announcement that he intends to bring The Great Gatsby to the screen once again, Bruce Jackson looks at the failures already at hand and offers some salient advice about why F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel is so resistant to successful screen adaptation.

An exemplary, early prototype of political documentary filmmaking, de Antonio's body of work is as vital today as it was in the past. Here, we are given insight into his views on filmmaking; the manner in which de Antonio funded his politically sensitive films; opponents and facilitators; and much, much more.