Danielle Darrieux Articles

Danielle Darrieux in Max Ophüls' La Ronde (top); Darrieux, Isabelle Huppert in François Ozon's 8 Women (bottom) Honorary Oscars Bypass Women: Part I Among the female film veterans with more than three decades of screen work and who have yet to receive an Honorary Oscar for career achievement are actresses Danielle Darrieux (nearly eight decades in films, and still active), Doris Day, Michèle Morgan, Julie [...]

Four-time Academy Award winner screenwriter-director-producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz will be saluted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a special 50th anniversary screening of a recently restored print of Suddenly, Last Summer, starring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor (above, and right, with Mankiewicz), and Montgomery Clift. The screening will take place on Thursday, May 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater [...]

A man is dead. Who among the greedy, ruthless, amoral singing-and-dancing suspects stuck in the snowbound countryside mansion has done it? 8 women is an acquired taste, bien sûr. What seems silly the first time around becomes increasingly wittier and funnier — though no less bizarre — with each repeated viewing. Beautifully shot by Jeanne Lapoirie and chock-full of bitingly sardonic lines and situations (adapted [...]

Jacques Tati in Mr. Hulot’s Holiday FILM The Bandwagon d: Vincente Minnelli; scr: Adolph Green, Betty Comden The Big Heat d: Fritz Lang; scr: Sidney Boehm Blowing Wild d: Hugo Fregonese; scr: Philip Yordan Calamity Jane d: David Butler; scr: James O’Hanlon Gentlemen Prefer Blondes d: Howard Hawks; scr: Charles Lederer How to Marry a Millionaire d: Jean Negulesco; scr: Nunnally Johnson I Confess d: [...]