Stanley Kubrick was born in New York, and was considered intelligent despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would produce better academic performance, Kubrick's father Jack (a physician) sent him in 1940 to Pasadena, California, to stay with his uncle Martin Perveler. Returnin

Architectural, Catastrophe, Expansive, Monumental, Sprawling

Cary Grant once described his screen persona as "a combination of Jack Buchanan, Noel Coward and Rex Harrison. I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be, and, finally, I became that person. Or he became me." In fact, in the process of constructing his cool, sophisticated movie star persona, Grant bec

Charming, Classic hollywood, Funny

With the advent of 16mm equipment came the birth of film as personal artistic expression, and Maya Deren led the revolution. The woman who was "her own avant-garde movement," had what can only be described as an eclectic set of interests. She immersed herself in political science, journalism, English

Avant-garde film, Death, Feminine, Feminist, Primal, Spare, Surreal

A Queens native committed to filming the outer boroughs of New York, Gray's career, while picking up steam recently, has produced only four features in 15 years. Each of his first three films is ostensibly a "crime picture" but at heart they are films of family, which proves Gray's work bears as much

Composed, Gritty, Implosive, Layered, Melancholy, Organic, Sensual, Tragic, Urban