British director Alexander Mackendrick made memorable films on both sides of the pond. In Britain, Mackendrick was one of the star directors at the famed Ealing Studios thanks to his sharp, inventive ...

I’m deeply ambivalent about my speaking voice. On the one hand, my voice is a small miracle. Vocalizing requires an incredibly broad range of activities, including muscles, nerves, and the brain. It ...

Richard Schickel is a contributing writer to Book Review and a film critic for Time. Alexander MACKENDRICK in “On Film-making” defines the movie director as “the Invisible Imaginary Ubiquitous Winged ...

It’s a long way from the wild, windswept beauty of the Outer Hebrides to the sleazy, subterranean jazz joints of downtown Manhattan, yet these were the settings for the two finest films in the career ...

Samantha MacKendrick is not only artful in her approach to deploying traditional marketing strategies and tactics, but she thinks well outside the box and engages in new and innovative ways both to ...