Director Michael Apted sat down with film critic Jean Oppenheimer, on behalf of Writers Bloc Presents to talk about 56 Up, the latest installment in his groundbreaking documentary series. He started the conversation by confessing, “I never know what the new film is going to be until I see it with an audience.” WritersBlocpresents.com:  Not even while editing it? Michael Apted:  I know each individual life but, until I see the completed film with an…

We at Writers Bloc love Scandinavian films. If you missed Denmark’s A Royal Affair, you can see it at the upcoming Scandinavian Film Festival LA.

With Amour, Austrian-born writer/director Michael Haneke has crafted his masterpiece.

David Thomson is a film critic, film historian, and cultural critic.  The New Biographical Dictionary of Film is a modern classic, and was voted by critics and writers to be the most valuable film book of all time. It also made it clear that David Thomson is one of the great film authorities of all time as well.  It’s a given that his Biographical Dictionary is a must-have to anyone who wants a quick reference to who-did-what-when in a movie or television show, despite the…