THE DAILY PIC (#1636): I’m ashamed that I’d never heard of the films of Morris Engel until just recently, given how wonderful and influential they are. Francois Truffaut said that the movies of the ...

Interviewed in the New Yorker in the 1960s, the French director François Truffaut said that the French new wave "would never have come into being if it had not been for the young American Morris Engel ...

The techniques and styles of American independent filmmaking owe much to the work of Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin, which gets a one-day retrospective at Metrograph on April 8, the centenary of Engel’s ...

Morris Engel, a still photographer whose landmark 1953 film “Little Fugitive” inspired an era of independent filmmaking by better-known mavericks such as John Cassavetes, Francois Truffaut and Quentin ...

On the face of it, the films of Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin are an American corollary to Italian neorealism, slice-of-life tales with realistic and flawed characters. They sprinkle in a touch more ...

signed and printed later, before he died in 2005. Known for starting the French New Wave movement, Morris Engel was born in April, 1918, in Brooklyn, New York. He was a combat cameraman with the U.S.

Pioneering independent filmmaker Morris Engel, died March 5 of cancer in New York. He was 86. Engel’s 1953 film, “The Little Fugitive” established a model for filmmaking that influenced directors like ...

In 1930, Wilhelm Münzenberg—a German Communist Party activist and millionaire media mogul—sent an envoy to New York to set up an office for his pro-Soviet publishing empire.

OVER four decades, Morris Engel made only a handful of films and only the most dedicated cineaste will have heard of them. But he pioneered the concept of independent, low-budget films and inf luenced ...