David M. Thompson

Released in 2006, British filmmaker Stephen Frears’ “The Queen” dramatizes the brief but intense conflict between Prime ...

The first major profile of the great British film director Nicolas Roeg, examining his very personal vision of cinema as in such films as ...

With the beginnings of Hollywood, the star system was born with an archetypal bad girl – the vampish Theda Bara – and the good girl ...

Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1946 film “Notorious.”

The making of The Dreamers, its background and relation to the May 1968 student riots in Paris.

Documentary profile of legendary dance choreographer Busby Berkeley.

Robert Altman interviewed during the making of GOSFORD PARK (2001), as well as members of the cast and crew. Also, revealing behind the scenes ...

Very insightful BBC documentary about Paul Verhoeven, tracking his career up to Showgirls. The programme focuses on talks with Verhoeven, but ...

From his quirky compositions for the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone to his sublime musical contributions to director Roland Joffé’s ...

A documentary profile on Quentin Tarantino broadcast by the BBC’s “Omnibus” strand in 1994 to coincide with “Pulp ...

Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.

The story of Granada, the company responsible for Britain’s most enduring soap opera Coronation Street, the current affairs series World in ...

Documentary about Vittorio Storaro, cinematographer of Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor, Reds, Il Confimista, 1900. Vittorio Storaro talks about ...

A retrospective of the films of Britain’s Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. ...