September 8, 2019, marks the birthday of actor and comic legend Peter Sellers, who would have turned 94. The British star had achieved acclaim on the stage, in recordings and most famously on the ...
Movie junkies, rejoice. Director Peter Medak has made an instructive and nightmarishly funny documentary about how actor Peter Sellers drove him crazy and nearly trashed his career. The Ghost of Peter ...
While talking to Yahoo Movies while promoting his Oscar-touted drama Foxcatcher, there was one actor in particular that Steve Carell named as an inspiration: Peter Sellers. “His influence rubbed off ...
In a discovery that would make Inspector Clouseau proud, two long-lost short films starring Peter Sellers have been found in Southend, England and will be screened next year at a local film festival.
Peter Medak’s new documentary “The Ghost of Peter Sellers,” about the catastrophic production of the actor’s failed 1973 pirate comedy “Ghost in the Noonday Sun,” begins with a little back-patting.
Bad movies happen. There are big budget flops, like last year’s “Cats,” and movies so ridiculous they become entertaining, like Kevin Costner’s “Waterworld,” or cult favorites, like “The Rocky Horror ...
Two lost Peter Sellers films from 1957 have been found in a skip in London. Dearth of a Salesman and Insomnia Is Good for You were thought to be lost when they were found by Southend-on-Sea resident ...
The French term “poète maudit” means “cursed poet.” There’s a movie equivalent, “film maudit.” It includes movies like Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind,” which didn’t get finished (the list ...
Out of the chaos of Peter Sellers has come some of the best character comedy, period. From accident-prone Inspector Clouseau in “The Pink Panther” to the three unique characters in “Dr. Strangelove or ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Director Peter Medak's wistful recollection of the ill-fated "Ghost of the Noonday Sun" production allows him to finish the story on his own terms. Most stories of tortured film productions turn on ...