Featured Stories
Skateboarding on Hardscrabble
By Billy Shebar
Even after capturing Hollywood’s attention, filmmaker Debra Granik ’85 remains fiercely independent.
He’s Got the Look
By Susan Piland
Production designer Steve Saklad ’78 imagines and assembles the many elements of a movie’s visual language.
Weimar on the Pacific
By Thomas Doherty
The film artists who fled Nazi Germany for sunny California infused American cinema with fresh energy and talent, and a healthy dose of dread.
The Big Break
By Eric Grode
Making it on Broadway demands a flexible road map — or, sometimes, an inspired exit strategy.
Hollywood Girlhood
By Kathy Lawrence
Long before she came to Brandeis, a Beverly Hills insider lived in Betty Grable’s mansion, had close encounters of the celebrity kind — and wondered whether glamour is all it’s cracked up to be.
The Brandeis Questionnaire
With homage to Marcel Proust, producer/writer/director Marshall Herskovitz ’73 reveals his deepest feelings.