Author Wheeler Winston Dixon

Like so many others in the United States, I was first exposed to Karel Zeman’s exotic adventure film Vynález zkázy (Invention of Destruction, 1958), when it was released in the West in a dubbed and retitled as ...

Adam Sandler has become such a reliable conveyor belt of cinematic schlock that people forget he once had aspirations beyond Dennis Dugan’s truly dreadful film Jack and Jill (2011), in which Sandler plays both ...

“For me, Hollywood no longer exists. It’s past history. I’ve decided to stay in Mexico because I believe I can make my pictures with greater freedom from here.” – Sam Peckinpah (1) Bring Me the Head of Alfred...

In the early 1960s, director Roger Corman was on fire. Coming off a wave of ultra-exploitational titles for the fledgling film production/distribution company American International Pictures (AIP), which arguab...

In the early to mid 1960s, the Italian cinema was going through a sort of renaissance, as it not only produced important films by such renowned cineastes as Federico Fellini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Luchino Viscon...

“A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately.” – Josef von Sternberg (1) Of all the delirious exoticisms created by Marlene Dietrich ...

At first glance, it might seem that a film about Picasso should have been directed by anyone other than Henri-Georges Clouzot, the famous misanthrope of the cinema. But then again, both were hard, violent men, ...

When people ask me who my favorite contemporary director is, I answer without hesitation: Manoel de Oliveira. At 102, he is the oldest living filmmaker, and also the filmmaker with the longest career, but he is...

One Hour With You is one of Ernst Lubitsch’s most effervescent and sophisticated comedies, and easily ranks up there with the director’s best works, including the sublime Trouble in Paradise (1932) and Ninotchk...

Jean Renoir is arguably the greatest artist that the cinema has ever known, simply because he was able to work effectively in virtually all genres without sacrificing his individuality or bowing to public or co...

Federico Fellini, one of the cinema’s greatest artists, began his career as a cartoonist, and then enrolled in the University of Rome Law School in 1938 in order to avoid being drafted into Mussolini’s fascist ...

This is an essential book on one of the most explosive film movements in recent memory, rivalling the prodigious output of Iranian films in the 1990s; the Nigerian feature film industry, which, working almost e...

Viaggio in Italia/Voyage to Italy/Voyage in Italy/Strangers (1954 Italy/France 97 mins) Prod Co: Sveva/Junior/Italiafilm Prod: Adolfo Fossataro Dir: Roberto Rossellini Scr: Roberto Rossellini, Vitaliano ...

This 2-disc DVD set from the National Film Preservation Foundation and Image Entertainment covers an era of filmmaking that is almost lost to authentic recall; an era when individual artists were able to make f...

Andrew V. McLaglen never quite reached the ranks of auteur, but he left his mark in his own way. This career interview offers real insight into the working life of a noted director in the studio era.

b. February 4, 1914, London, England d. August 3, 1995, Los Angeles, California, USA Filmography Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources One of the most important auteurs in 1950s cinema is ...

Exploitation producer Herman Cohen captured the 1950s teen market with such titles as I was a Teenage Werewolf and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein. Wheeler Winston Dixon looks at his career and the thematic subtexts that underpinned his work.

Wheeler Dixon provides a refreshing look at one of the enduring masterpieces of French cinema.

Through meticulous research, Wheeler Winston Dixon brings to light the fascinating career of one of the forgotten figures working on the margins of Hollywood’s quota-quickie industry.

Not another standard eulogy to the death of cinema, but rather an impassioned reflection on how cinéphilia copes and adapts to the changing of the guard from celluloid cinema to digital movies.

Les Mistons (1957 France 18 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Les Films du Carrosse Prod: Robert Lachenay Dir: François Truffaut Scr: Truffaut, based on the short story by Maurice Pons Phot: Jean Malige Ed: C...

b. Roger William Corman b. April 5, 1926, Detroit, Michigan, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources Along with John Cassavetes, Roger Corman was one of the first Am...

At first glance Topsy-Turvy may seem an atypical Leigh film, but Dixon argues that it is “a radical work masquerading as a conventional biopic.”

Viagem ao Princípio do Mundo/Voyage to the Beginning of the World (1997 Portugal/France 95 mins) Source: Gemini Films Prod Co: Gemini Films/IPACA/Le Studio Canal+/Madragoa Films/RTP Prod: Paulo Branco Di...