Daniel Kremer

We all know Jack Nicholson the actor. But few know the history of Jack Nicholson the screenwriter, and especially Jack Nicholson the director. ...

Worlds collide in this unconventional essay film, when filmmaker, film historian, and archivist Daniel Kremer seamlessly edits Michelangelo ...

Between One Eyed Jacks (1961) and The Godfather (1972), Marlon Brando appeared in twelve feature films. The actor called this period his ...

A video essay about fifties and early sixties social and sexual mores, in life and in cinema, and how these “codes” (in partnership ...

Otto Preminger wasn’t only one of the most famous directors of classic Hollywood. He was a presence, a brand, and the only one who rivaled ...

An imagined plague diary

What do the movies First Blood and Weekend at Bernie’s have in common? One man with a clear and curious thematic focus, that’s what. ...

John G. Avildsen has only recently cemented his reputation as the “king of the underdogs,” owing to his having directed both Rocky ...

Filmmaker Louis Malle worked adjacent to the French Nouvelle Vague, but was admittedly never fully part of it, cementing his reputation instead ...