Samuel Fuller

April 17, 2008 For the last several years, Richard Schickel has been a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times Book Review, writing primarily about books on film. His new book, "Film on Paper: The Inner Life of Movies," is a collection of many of...

When Lisa Dombrowski was an undergraduate at Wesleyan University in 1992, she took a class in film noir and arranged a screening of the Samuel Fuller classic "Shock Corridor." By the time the film was over, Dombrowski was so tense she was sitting in a...

This article contains corrected material One movie star's death has a way of eclipsing another's. Such was the case last weekend when Charlton Heston—Mt. Heston, a biblical epic unto himself—died at 84. The media treated his passing as a big...

Richard Widmark, who made a sensational film debut as the giggling killer in "Kiss of Death" and became a leading man in "Broken Lance," "Two Rode Together" and 40 other films, died at his home in Roxbury after a long illness. He was 93. Widmark's wife,...

4 stars (out of 4) Samuel Fuller's "The Big Red One"--released in 1980 by its original studio Lorimar in a cut butchered beyond its director's control--has long been hailed as the great American World War II epic that wasn't, a casualty of the studio...

"This is fictional life, based on factual death," reads the title card that opens "The Big Red One: The Reconstruction," the restoration that breathes new life into Samuel Fuller's 1980 World War II movie about a weathered sergeant and his four fresh-...

Jean-Luc Godard's films have always reflected the times in which they were made with their acute, even startling ability to evoke self-recognition, yet so rich and far-ranging are their concerns that it is hardly surprising they seem timeless. Such is the...

PICK OF THE WEEK: THE LOOKOUT Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Matthew Goode in "The Lookout" (Allen Fraser/Miramax) Unquestionably the most successful movie to hit DVD this week is "Wild Hogs," the comedy that proved John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, Tim...

Richard Widmark, who made a sensational film debut as the giggling killer in "Kiss of Death" and became a Hollywood leading man in "Broken Lance," "Two Rode Together" and 40 other films, has died after a long illness. He was 93. Widmark's wife, Susan...

Richard Widmark began his career as the quintessential film noir villain in 1947's seminal "Kiss of Death." And though he is best known for his villainous roles, he also excelled at westerns ("Broken Lance," "Cheyenne Autumn"), dramas ("Time Limit,"...