Articles

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE: Pushing The Yellow Bus 20 Years Later

Introduction It’s hard to overstate the enormous impact that Little Miss Sunshine had when the film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006. It...

THE END OF OAK STREET Review: A Summer Movie From Another Time

Introduction From the moment the soundtrack starts in David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street, I felt a certain sense of nostalgia. This movie...

QUENTIN TARANTINO: What’s Next For One Of Hollywood’s Greatest Directors?

Introduction Almost 35 years into his career, Quentin Tarantino remains one of the most distinctive and influential filmmakers of the modern era. Emerging from the...

TRUE ROMANCE (1993) – A 30th Anniversary Retrospective

Introduction In the Summer of 1993, most of the cinema-viewing world was fixated on dinosaurs, of the Jurassic kind. However, just a year earlier, another...

THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA (1937) – A Retro Review

Cinema Scholars presents a retro review for the 1937 Best Picture Oscar-winning biography The Life of Emile Zola. Directed by William Dieterle and starring...

The Five Greatest Concert Films Of All Time!

Introduction To be a truly iconic rock or pop documentary feature, you need to do more than just show a band or performer playing on...

THE DIVE: Director Maximilian Erlenwein Talks About His New Thriller

Introduction  Cinema Scholars interviews Maximilian Erlenwein, writer/director of the new survival thriller The Dive which will be available In Theaters and Everywhere You Rent Movies...

MOB LAND: An Interview With The Southern Noir Writer/Director Nicholas Maggio

Cinema Scholars interviews Nicholas Maggio, writer/director of the southern noir Mob Land. John Travolta, Shiloh Fernandez, Stephen Dorff, and Ashley Benson star. Saban Films...