Robert F. Boyle

The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called "the most powerful movie musical ever made." Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, FIDDLER'S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the director's chair and in Jewison's heart and mind, drawing on behind-the-scenes footage and never-before-seen stills as well as original interviews with Jewison, Topol (Tevye), composer John Williams, production designer Robert F. Boyle, film critic Kenneth Turan, lyricist Sheldon Harnick, and actresses Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh, and Neva Small (Tevye’s daughters). The film explores how the experience of making Fiddler deepened Jewison as an artist and revived his soul.

A short documentary made for the 2019 Criterion Collection DVD release of NOTORIOUS featuring new and archival interviews with scholars Steven D. Katz and Bill Krohn, storyboard artists Gabriel Hardman and Harold Michelson, production designer Robert F. Boyle, and others. Filmmaker Daniel Raim delves into the extensive preproduction and previsualization processes Alfred Hitchcock undertook to ensure his cinematic vision for NOTORIOUS would be realized precisely.

In this new video by filmmaker Daniel Raim, production designer Robert F. Boyle uncovers how two great artists—Alfred Hitchcock and Edward Hopper—mastered the subtle art of suspense.

The Los Angeles Times Critics' Pick Something’s Gonna Live is an intimate portrait of life, death, friendship and the movies, as recalled by some of Hollywood's greatest cinema artists. Academy Award®-nominated director Daniel Raim (The Man on Lincoln’s Nose), captures the late life coming together of renowned art directors Robert Boyle (North by Northwest, The Birds), Henry Bumstead (To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sting) and Albert Nozaki (The War of the Worlds, The Ten Commandments), storyboard illustrator Harold Michelson (The Graduate, Star Trek: The Motion Picture), and master cinematographers Haskell Wexler (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Medium Cool) and Conrad Hall (In Cold Blood, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). These prolific artists have worked on a total of 400 films, garnering 25 Academy Award® nominations and 8 wins.

Using interviews with top designers, art and plans from their workshops, and the films themselves this documentary explores the influence of these artists on the iconography of our culture.

The troubled production of Winter Kills (1979) is covered here in this documentary with interviews with a few cast and crew members. The film was shut down 3 times, and to save the production they had to make The American Success Company (1980) get themselves out of debt. They also talk about the first time director and the "old crew" that was used.

Set design has been one of the most overlooked jobs in film, receiving little critical attention until recently. In this Oscar-nominated documentary short, director Daniel Raim puts the spotlight on one of the best in the field, creating a witty, informative inside view of the filmmaking process.

Hosted by Eva Marie Saint, the film's leading lady, this 40-minute documentary of Alfred Hitchcock's only M-G-M film combines interviews (Martin Landau, Patricia Hitchcock, production designer Robert F. Boyle and screenwriter Ernest Lehman), movie clips and behind the scenes photos to make for a fascinating look at one of the silver screen's glowing gems. For fans of North by Northwest (1959) and Hitchcock aficionados, this is a must-see treat.

This hour long documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's "Marnie" incorporates the usual melange of contemporary interviews with surviving participants and liberal helpings of film clips and production shots. It also presents a nice selection of script pages and memos as well. In the former category we find cast members 'Tippi' Hedren, Diane Baker, and Louise Latham, rejected screenwriters Joseph Stefano and Evan Hunter, final screenwriter Jay Presson Allen, daughter Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, production designer Robert Boyle, makeup artist Howard Smit, unit manager Hilton Green, Hitchcock historian Robin Wood, composer Bernard Herrmann biographer Steven C. Smith, and Hitchcock fan/filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich. An entertaining account of the film's production, the participants offer loads of valuable information and anecdotes. Highly enjoyable for Hitchcock fans and the film's growing number of admirers.

A short documentary about the Making Of Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943).

A documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's movie Saboteur.

A Beverly Hills housewife in the middle of a divorce tries to find focus in her life by taking over her daughter's Wilderness Girls troop.

LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday -- the equally straight-laced nephew of the famous police sergeant of the same name -- is paired up with a young, freewheeling detective named Pep Streebeck. After investigating some strange robberies at the local zoo and the theft of a stockpile of pornographic magazines, they uncover cult activity in the heart of the city and are hot on the case to figure out who's behind it all.

Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets a strange coded message from an unknown source. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout, she remains in contact with this mysterious person, who needs Terry's help save his life.

ある日、宇宙に憧れる14歳の少年ベンは電気回路の上を飛んでいるような不思議な夢を見る。うなされて起きたベンは急いで夢で見た不思議な回路の様な物をメモし、同じ学校に通う友達で天才的な少年科学者ウォルフガングにその事を話す。翌日、上級生にいじめられいたべンを助けてくれたダレンが加わり、3人はウォルフガングの家の地下の実験室でベンが夢で見た不思議な回路の様な物を元にウォルフガングが製作した回路をコンピューターに繋いでみると、なんとコンピューターが勝手にプログラムを始め、目に見えない小さい不思議な球体が実験室に出現し実験室にあった本棚を貫通してしまう。ウォルフガングが研究を重ねると、その球体はコンピューターで移動させることができ、大きさが変えられ、なんでも貫通する程の強度がある事が判明する。3人はその球体を今度は外で出現させてみようと試みるが、その時うっかり、ベンのせいでウォルフガングが球体の中に入ってしまい、そのまま高速で空を飛んでなんと地面を突き抜けてしまう。しかしその事で人が中に入って飛べる事を知った3人はその球体に入って空を飛ぼうと計画する。そして3人は遊園地の廃材などを寄せ集めたコンピューター搭載の手作り搭乗装置を完成させ、ついに球体の中に入り空を飛ぶ事に成功したのだが、その時またしてもコンピューターが勝手にプログラムを始め、なんと何者かに宇宙に向かって引き寄せられている事に気付く・・・宇宙や科学、少年たちの夢見る心と冒険が「グレムリン」のジョー・ダンテ監督のユーモア溢れるタッチで描かれたＳＦファンタジーの傑作。

ある日、宇宙に憧れる14歳の少年ベンは電気回路の上を飛んでいるような不思議な夢を見る。うなされて起きたベンは急いで夢で見た不思議な回路の様な物をメモし、同じ学校に通う友達で天才的な少年科学者ウォルフガングにその事を話す。翌日、上級生にいじめられいたべンを助けてくれたダレンが加わり、3人はウォルフガングの家の地下の実験室でベンが夢で見た不思議な回路の様な物を元にウォルフガングが製作した回路をコンピューターに繋いでみると、なんとコンピューターが勝手にプログラムを始め、目に見えない小さい不思議な球体が実験室に出現し実験室にあった本棚を貫通してしまう。ウォルフガングが研究を重ねると、その球体はコンピューターで移動させることができ、大きさが変えられ、なんでも貫通する程の強度がある事が判明する。3人はその球体を今度は外で出現させてみようと試みるが、その時うっかり、ベンのせいでウォルフガングが球体の中に入ってしまい、そのまま高速で空を飛んでなんと地面を突き抜けてしまう。しかしその事で人が中に入って飛べる事を知った3人はその球体に入って空を飛ぼうと計画する。そして3人は遊園地の廃材などを寄せ集めたコンピューター搭載の手作り搭乗装置を完成させ、ついに球体の中に入り空を飛ぶ事に成功したのだが、その時またしてもコンピューターが勝手にプログラムを始め、なんと何者かに宇宙に向かって引き寄せられている事に気付く・・・宇宙や科学、少年たちの夢見る心と冒険が「グレムリン」のジョー・ダンテ監督のユーモア溢れるタッチで描かれたＳＦファンタジーの傑作。

The 16 years old amateur photographer Charles accidentally takes a photo of Laura - and falls in love with her, when he develops the picture. He finds out that she works as singer in a bar, but is about to be thrown out. Although rejected at first by the 23 years old, he wants to help her and starts an ad campaign behind her back... with unexpected results.

After a big-time country singer brags that she can turn anybody in to a country-singin' star, she's out to prove she can live up to her talk when she recruits a cab-driver as a country singer. He's scheduled to sing at a big-time NYC country night club and she puts her ample powers to work in preparing her protege.

It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.

J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) wants a second chance to be a father to his children ... but someone else has taken his place. Determined not to just be a friendly 'uncle' in their lives, he gets permission from his ex-wife Kathleen (Millie Perkins) and her new husband (Richard Crenna) to take the kids on a Mediterranean cruise. On the journey he comes to realise it's not that easy and, feeling overwhelmed, begins to doubt his abilities until a tragedy back home forces him to become the father he always hoped to be.

ジュディ・ベンジャミンは、甘やかされて育った良家のご令嬢。 だが、結婚初夜に夫に先立たれてからというもの、ツキに見放されてしまう。こともあろうに、人手不足に悩む軍隊の新兵集めの甘い言葉にだまされて、入隊させられてしまうのだ。そこから彼女の本当の災難が始まった。

19 years after President Timothy Keegan was assassinated, his brother Nick discovers a dying man claiming to have been the gunman. While trying to avoid his wealthy and domineering father's attempts to control his actions, Nick follows the clues that have been handed to him. As he progresses, it becomes increasingly difficult to discern the real trails from the dead ends, and increasingly dangerous as unknown parties try to stop Nick from uncovering the truth.

19 years after President Timothy Keegan was assassinated, his brother Nick discovers a dying man claiming to have been the gunman. While trying to avoid his wealthy and domineering father's attempts to control his actions, Nick follows the clues that have been handed to him. As he progresses, it becomes increasingly difficult to discern the real trails from the dead ends, and increasingly dangerous as unknown parties try to stop Nick from uncovering the truth.

Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results.

Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Brooks, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a boarding house run by a widow and her son. However, it is not Brooks' fate to die in peace, as he becomes embroiled in one last valiant battle.

The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there.

In 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields begins anew in California. Working at a wax museum, Fields eventually lands a film role that ascends him to stardom. Back in the limelight and palling around with John Barrymore and the like, Fields meets an aspiring actress Carlotta Monti at a party, with whom he forms a rocky relationship.

巨額の賞金がかけられた耐久レースに挑むことになった個性的な8人の猛者たち。彼らが遭遇する想像を絶する奮闘と冒険を描いたウエスタン・アドベンチャー。ジーン・ハックマン、キャンディス・バーゲンら豪華スターたちが共演する。

Following the death of his father, an orphan is sent to live with his free-spirited aunt.

A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring.

During a session with his psychoanalyst, Alexander Portnoy rants about everything that is bothering him. His complaints include his childhood and his family with an emphasis on his mother, his sexual fantasies and the problems that he has with women, and his obsessive feelings about his Judaism.

In a small Jewish community in a pre-Revolutionary Russian village, a poor milkman, determined to find good husbands for his five daughters, consults the traditional matchmaker – and also has words with God.

At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.

After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a Chicago brothel. Acting as a surrogate mother for Ben, who thinks she runs a boardinghouse, Lil gets him a job with Francis Sullivan at the local newspaper. As Ben is exposed to the workings of the big city, he realizes the extent of government corruption and sets out on the daunting task of reforming Chicago politics, finding several allies along the way.

スティーヴ・マックィーン主演による犯罪ロマンス映画。とあるホテルの一室で、二人の男がボストンの市中銀行を白昼襲撃するという一大犯罪計画が密談されていた。そこへ計画者と思われる男が、度肝を抜く秒刻みの作戦を披露する。やがて計画は実行されるが……。

When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses by charging goods to various wealthy people and misdirecting the shipments, all to keep Miss Vicki's standard of living.

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.

A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business.

When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov, to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the island locals, including the police chief and a vacationing television writer, while trying to allay their fears of a Communist invasion by claiming he and his crew are Norwegian sailors.

求人広告を見てやってきたのは、美貌の女泥棒マーニーだった。正体を知りながら彼女を雇い、やがて結婚するマーク。盗癖のある妻とそれを救おうとする夫の葛藤を巧みに描いた、アルフレッド・ヒッチコックによる心理サスペンス。

A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.

ある日、何の理由もなしに、鳥たちが人間を襲い始めた……。たった一つのシチュエーションをもとにあらゆる恐怖を引き出した、ヒッチコックのサスペンス・ドラマの傑作。

Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.

A Los Angeles detective and his Japanese partner woo an artist while solving a stripper's murder.

広告会社社長のロジャー・ソーンヒルは多忙で、今も秘書をタクシーに乗せて車内でスケジュールの確認中である。プラザ・ホテルで一人降りたソーンヒルは友人たちの待つラウンジへ向う。酒を飲む前に電報を打つ用事を思い出したソーンヒルはボーイに向って手を挙げるが、その手と”お客様のジョージ・カプラン様”の呼び出しの声が重なった。その様子を見ていた二人組は席を立ったソーンヒルに銃を突きつけ、人知れず車に乗せる。それはNYからラシュモア山までの苦難の道のりの始まりであった。

Travails of a family heading West in a covered wagon.

A Texan pits a powerful family against itself to save a Mexican from hanging.

Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family. Things go sour when the police start a search for his syndicate-linked brothers who are on the lam after a big hit, forcing Eddie to get involved with the Mafia again.

A mental patient with a violent past is released from the institution, against the advice of his doctors, and sent back to his old neighborhood. Was he released too soon?

Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady.

When young Crazy Horse, of whom great things were predicted, wins his bride, rival Little Big Man goes to villainous traders with evidence of gold in the sacred Lakota burial ground. Of course, a new gold rush starts despite all treaties, and Crazy Horse becomes military leader of his people. Initial Indian victories lead to the inevitable result. Uniquely, all is told from the Indian perspective.

Author & amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona, but Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...

Kittridge is hired by the villans but turns to defend the rancher Saxon after learning the true situation. Kittrige wins Saxon's ranch with a cut of the cards but Saxon has other reasons for loosing the gamble. Telford and Lake try everything from bushwacking to setting a wildfire to stop the Saxon/Kittridge herd of cattle from reaching the railhead.

Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.

Juvenile delinquents (Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Harvey Lembeck) trap a neighborhood hoodlum in New York.

After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder.

The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money. In order to pay her debts, casino manager Matt Braddock asks her to take care of his sad little daughter Diana.

An agent of Mexico poses as a pirate to foil a would-be emperor in 1820s California.

Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.

Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change when they take in a lost young lady, Riley Martin, who finds that Ring has "never seen a woman close up." Jeff is injured, Ring runs afoul of horse thieves and the law, and Riley (who is a lawyer) labors to clear the Hassards (who others would prefer dead).

Paula Consodine comes to Los Angeles in search of her missing sister. Newspaperman Mark Sitko, investigating on Paula's behalf, discovers that the sister is dead, a supposed suicide. The whole thing seems a bit fishy to Sitko, and indeed it is: the girl's death was engineered by a black-market adoption racket, headed by one DeCola.

In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.

A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering.

Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.

This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.

A con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.

In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.

Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts murder. The third is about a man who literally meets the girl of his dreams.

The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.

A native boy plays Cupid for a shark fisherman and a South Sea Islands princess.

This modest bit of comedy and romance in the adolescent vein is about a couple of spirited juveniles, Donald O'Connor and Gloria Jean, who carry on a flirtation parallel with that of their elders, Louise Allbritton and Ian Hunter.

カリフォルニア州サンタローザ。その街で家族と共に平凡に暮らす長女チャーリーは、突然やって来た叔父に秘密の匂いを嗅ぎとる。やがて二人の探偵が現れ、チャーリーは叔父に未亡人殺しの疑いがかかっている事を知る。明るい日常生活の中でチャーリーひとりが、叔父が殺人犯かどうかの疑惑にさいなまれていく…。

Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.

航空会社に勤務するバリーは、軍需工場への破壊工作の濡れ衣を着せられ、手錠のまま逃亡の身となるが…。

After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.