The Great McGinty The Great McGinty The Great McGinty is a 1940 political satire comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff and featuring William Demarest and (in her final screen appearance) Muriel Angelus. It was Sturges's first film as a director; he sold the story to Paramount Pictures for just $10 on condition he direct the film. Sturges went on to win the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay. In the U.K. the film was retitled Down Went McGinty. Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy) is a bartender in a banana republic who recounts his rise and fall
Binka: To Tell a Story About Silence Binka: To Tell a Story About Silence Binka: To Tell a Story about Silence (Bulgarian Бинка. Да разкажеш приказка за мълчанието) is a 2006 documentary film directed by Elka Nikolova. It is 48 minutes in length, and was released in Bulgaria in 2006 and in the United States in 2007. The topic of the film is the life and struggles of Bulgaria's first female film director Binka Zhelyazkova during difficult times politically. The documentary premiered in New York, at the Museum of Modern Art, on April 4, 2007. Later it was shown at many vanues such as the Russian Cultural