Directors | The Bedlam Files

CIMINO: THE DEER HUNTER, HEAVEN’S GATE AND THE PRICE OF A VISION

A frustrating and inconclusive book, although that’s an inevitability give its subject: the notoriously hermetic Michael Cimino

The director-novelist: it’s a rare combination, but it does exist

Anyone doubting that the early 1990s were a golden age for cinema need only view DAZED AND CONFUSED, or read this oral history

THE WHITE HOTEL is one of the few examples of literary fiction that can truly be said to have just about everything

An engaging memoir, and certainly one of most interesting and underrated film books of the 2010s

I’m very sorry to bid farewell to Sir Alan Parker, who passed on July 31

Richard Stanley is one of the most interesting genre filmmakers on the scene, and also one of the least prolific

As a longtime fan of the late Tony Scott, whose directorial output includes TRUE ROMANCE and CRIMSON TIDE, I find this book a must-read by default

A movie book that’s as gossipy, informative and entertaining as anyone could possibly want

Director John Boorman provided an elegantly drafted memoir back in 2003, and with CONCLUSIONS he completes it