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27 February 2012 7:03 AM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »

Generally speaking, stories about Hollywood personalities tend to focus on players with larger than life egos, who used their bravado to make things happen, or the stars whose luminous quailty made them legends. There is nothing that makes for a more page-turning read or a compelling documentary than juicy behind the scenes stories, and the outsized rumors that linger around them. But you won't find anything salacious in "No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos," which makes it all the more refreshing and endearing. This is the kind of Hollywood story we don't hear often enough, one of true friendship and collaboration, of two likeminded souls whose dedication to each other and respect for the craft made them true legends in the field.

If you don't know much about the personal lives of celebrated and revered cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond, your appreciation of 'No Subtitles Necessary' will be even greater. »

- Kevin Jagernauth

18 February 2012 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

This lively documentary traces the remarkable career of the independent American film-maker Roger Corman, a tall, handsome Stanford engineering graduate who has produced and directed several hundred low-budget movies over the past half-century and kick-started the careers of, among many others, Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, John Sayles, Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Jonathan Demme, Peter Bogdanovich and Bruce Dern.

In 1950 he decided to steer clear of the big studios after people at 20th Century-Fox robbed him of a credit and a bonus for his work on the Gregory Peck western The Gunfighter, and he struck a deal with a small exploitation company to make genre pictures (westerns, horror flicks, sci-fi, crime, biker pictures) on small budgets and short schedules aimed at young drive-in audiences.

Instead of the subtitle "Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel", this film could as easily be called "The Rebellion of a Hollywood Exploiter" for the way it records the ingenuity, »

- Philip French

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