The line between a filmmaker and his films, and a writer-director and his collaborators, all but disappears in “A Fuller Life,” a loving and illuminating documentary about an American original, Samuel ...
Best extra: “The Real Glory: Reconstructing The Big Red One,” a feature (in SD) that reunites co-stars Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco and Kelly Ward SEEING WRITER/DIRECTOR Samuel Fuller ...
As a youngster, Samuel Fuller sold newspapers on the street before becoming a copy boy and then a teenage crime reporter for the New York Evening Graphic. He left the paper to freelance, crossing the ...
Lim is a freelance writer. A cigar-chomping newspaperman turned two-fisted pulp auteur, Samuel Fuller (1912-1997) never had much use for subtlety. His signature style -- lurid, didactic, in-your-face ...
If Samuel Fuller was an "authentic American primitive," as Andrew Sarris wrote, that may explain why he caught the eye of the French New Wave directors. Fuller was certainly not given to airs, ...
Even before the 1962 release of “Merrill’s Marauders,” it had not gone unnoticed that director Samuel Fuller often framed his characters at the point where their bodies meet the earth: their feet.
One of Hollywood’s biggest crimes of the last quarter-century is being set right this week with the release of “The Big Red One: The Reconstruction,” a beautifully restored version of Samuel Fuller’s ...
Sixty years ago, maverick director Samuel Fuller won the Bronze Lion Award at the Venice International Film Festival for his gritty film noir “Pickup on South Street” with Richard Widmark and Thelma ...
Because writer-director Sam Fuller tried his best to skirt the Hollywood system, his filmography tends to be scattered, erratic, and difficult to collect. Sony’s 7-DVD box set The Samuel Fuller ...