Joseph L. Mankiewicz was born in Wilkes-Barre in 1909 and spent the majority of his childhood in New York City. After graduating from Columbia University, he moved to Berlin to be a correspondent for ...

As previewed first for IndieWire, the new season of "The Plot Thickens" will explore the complicated production history of the Hollywood epic, through the lens of its acclaimed director Joseph L.

Reading this splendid compilation of interviews with the director-producer Joseph Mankiewicz, one theme continually recurs. Mankiewicz is forever convinced that “my kind of filmmaking”—literate, witty ...

From All About Eve to Amadeus... As a sprawling new epic set amid the kabuki theatre world arrives in cinemas, we look at films where art and performance become battlegrounds of ruthless ambition.

Nearly three decades after his death, Wilkes-Barre native Joseph Mankiewicz is still in the pantheon of Hollywood’s most acclaimed filmmakers. The only filmmaker in history to collect back to back ...

Herman and Joseph Mankiewicz called Wilkes-Barre home for part of their youth before becoming Hollywood legends. The Mankiewiczes only spent a few years in the city while their father, Franz, worked ...

Restored movies by Pedro Almodóvar, Stanley Kubrick, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Manoel de Oliveira, Krzysztof Kieślowski and Tsai Ming-Liang are set to screen as part of the Venice Film Festival‘s 18-title ...

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (/ˈmæŋkəwɪts/ MANG-kə-wits; February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American filmmaker. A four-time Academy Award winner, he is best known for his witty and literate ...