A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Reading this splendid compilation of interviews with the director-producer Joseph Mankiewicz, one theme continually recurs. Mankiewicz is forever convinced that “my kind of filmmaking”—literate, witty ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Joseph L. Mankiewicz was born in Wilkes-Barre in 1909 and spent the majority of his childhood in New York City. After graduating from Columbia University, he moved to Berlin to be a correspondent for ...

As previewed first for IndieWire, the new season of "The Plot Thickens" will explore the complicated production history of the Hollywood epic, through the lens of its acclaimed director Joseph L.

Herman and Joseph Mankiewicz called Wilkes-Barre home for part of their youth before becoming Hollywood legends. The Mankiewiczes only spent a few years in the city while their father, Franz, worked ...

Nearly three decades after his death, Wilkes-Barre native Joseph Mankiewicz is still in the pantheon of Hollywood’s most acclaimed filmmakers. The only filmmaker in history to collect back to back ...

Restored movies by Pedro Almodóvar, Stanley Kubrick, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Manoel de Oliveira, Krzysztof Kieślowski and Tsai Ming-Liang are set to screen as part of the Venice Film Festival‘s 18-title ...

Ever since capturing 20th Century-Fox from the cold grip of Wall Street last summer, President Darryl F. Zanuck had been holed up in his Manhattan bunker, coldly sniping at Cleopatra. Then, armed with ...