William Wyler was a great film director whose work has always presented one big problem for film scholars. It's hard to pin down. Wyler wasn't like John Ford, who made Westerns, or Hitchcock, who made ...
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William Wyler was one of classic Hollywood’s greatest directors of actors — and also, according to the performers he worked with, one of its biggest pains in the neck. The archetypal story of working ...
I am Patrick Lyon, and I write for Collider. I also teach Latin and Literature on the high school level, and have been a lifelong fan of the works of Tolkien. There is a select club of directors who ...
William Wyler was the invisible director. He felt the director’s hand shouldn’t be evident in a movie. “It’s 80% script and 20% you get great actors,” he once said. “There’s nothing else to it.” Wyler ...
Lisa Laman is a life-long movie fan, writer, and Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic located both on the autism spectrum and in Texas. Given that her first word was "Disney", Lisa Laman was "doomed" from ...
William Wyler would've celebrated his 117th birthday on July 1, 2019. The three-time Oscar winner crafted several classics during Hollywood's Golden Age, adapting his style to a wide variety of genres ...
The eight Oscar nominations for 1946's The Best Years of Our Lives – and seven statuettes, including those for picture, director, actor, and screenplay – didn't include a nod to grande dame Myrna Loy, ...
There is an understated scene early in William Wyler’s “The Best Years of Our Lives” that nevertheless carries the weight of 1,000 welcome‑home parades. After arriving by military flight, Homer ...