Cecil B. DeMille Articles

A list of the 50 Most Important Religion Films of All Time is now online at Film Snobbery, which is paying tribute to "the union of the sacred and cinematic" in celebration of Epiphany (Jan. 6), the final day of the Christmas holiday season. Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ is not the #1 film on the list. Instead, that position belongs to Cecil [...]

Frank Lloyd, Henry King, John Ford, Frank Borzage Among them, these four filmmakers share eight Oscar wins and four additional nominations Frank Lloyd Intro II First of all, why Frank Lloyd? An obvious response might be "why not?" While large, trade publishers are suffering from diminishing sales, it seems that "small" publishers and similar entities, including the "vanity press" and the self-publishing brigade, are expanding [...]

O Mimi San (1914) Direction: Charles Miller Screenplay: Thomas H. Ince (unconfirmed) Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Mildred Harris, Tsuru Aoki   O Mimi San is historically important as Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa’s first film. In it, Hayakawa plays a prince who goes to a retreat after an attempt on his life is made; once there he falls in love with a young woman (Mildred Harris, future [...]

Jeanne Moreau, Henri Serre, Oskar Werner in François Truffaut’s Jules et Jim In June, Turner Classic Movies‘ month-long series "Great Directors" will be celebrating the efforts of 52 films directors, from past and present, from Hollywood and overseas (though, as to be expected, mostly Hollywood). Among TCM’s "greats" are, inevitably, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Steven Spielberg, and John Ford, but also Jacques Tourneur, [...]