This is the grave of Otto Preminger. Born in 1905 to a wealthy and powerful Jewish family in modern Ukraine, where his father was a prominent legal official in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Preminger d
This is the grave of Lee Marvin. Born in 1924 in New York City, Marvin grew up in a well-off family. His father was an advertising executive and his mother a fashion writer. His parents however were a
I haven’t seen every Pixar film, not having children and all. But I thought this list was pretty good, especially somewhat dissing Up. Up is the Saving Private Ryan of Pixar, in that a wonderful
Inside this family tomb lies Edward G. Robinson. Born Emanuel Goldenberg in Bucharest, Romania in 1893, his family decided to move to the U.S. in 1904 to escape anti-Semitism. His family joined the ho
The brilliant and pioneering filmmaker Agnès Varda has died. In my view, the second greatest living director, behind only Scorsese, Varda’s career is a tribute to the glory of film as a medium,
Chris Marker is one of the most unique and fascinating filmmakers in the genre’s history, a man who documented the political world of the 20th century with a sympathetic pessimism with which I f
FFS: Bill Cosby may be in jail. Harvey Weinstein may be in hiding. But Roman Polanski is alive and well, and planning his first movie in the #MeToo era. He even has an Oscar-winning actor attached. Fr
This is the grave of Dudley Moore. Born in London in 1935 to a working class family, Moore had physical aliments from his birth, resulting in his short height, a bad leg, and kids making fun of him. B