Throughout the course of an extraordinary career that began in the 1960s, Sydney Pollack has earned critical and popular raves as a director, producer and actor. With his first feature-length documentary, AMERICAN MASTERS Sketches of Frank Gehry, Pollack boldly enters new territory. Q: When did ...
Ric Burns has written, directed and produced award-winning historical documentaries for nearly 20 years. His latest project is a two-part film on pop artist Andy Warhol, a Pittsburgh native who found beauty in everything from soup cans to movie stars. Below, Burns answers some questions ...
Gail Levin is an Emmy Award-winning producer/director of both television and film. Her most recent AMERICAN MASTERS production was James Dean: Sense Memories, which won a 2005 Cine Golden Eagle award. Below, she answers some questions about her latest project, AMERICAN MASTERS Marilyn Monroe: Still ...
Filmmaker Robert Trachtenberg takes us behind the curtain on how he directed the film, American Masters - Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer. Q: What made you interested in doing a film on Gene Kelly? A: My other career is as a photographer, and I ...
Filmmakers Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville were kind enough to answer some questions about their film. Q: What first got you interested in doing a film of Muddy Waters? Robert Gordon: I was writing Muddy's biography for Little, Brown and, in order to get closer ...
The AMERICAN MASTERS documentary on singing legend Nat King Cole offers a personal glimpse into Cole's family life through interviews with his wife and two of his five children, including his eldest, Carole Cole, the CEO of King Cole Partners. As CEO, Cole works in ...
Director Sam Pollard remembers the first John Ford/John Wayne film he ever saw: THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, which he watched in 1962 at a theater in Harlem along with his brother, sister, and uncle Sammie. "What stands out in my mind is the ...
Ernest Hemingway's groundbreaking novels and stories and the complicated personality behind them are explored in "Rivers to the Sea." Below, "Rivers to the Sea" writer and director DeWitt Sage shares some thoughts on the film: Q: Can you tell us how this project came about? ...
The Road is All Willa Cather wrote about the lives of early Nebraska pioneers in such books as O PIONEERS! (1913) and MY ANTONIA (1918). This is an interview with the filmmakers of WILLA CATHER: THE ROAD IS ALL: Producer/Writer, Christine Lesiak, and Producer/Director, Joel ...
Filmmaker DeWitt Sage answers questions about directing American Masters - F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams. Q: Do you agree with the several end-of-millennium surveys that rank F. Scott Fitzgerald as the most important or one of the most important American writers of the 20th century? ...
