Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival 2009
The 4th Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, which runs April 23-30, will kick off with a screening of Joshua Sinclair’s Jump, starring Ben Silverstone (of the coming-of-age gay drama Get Real) and Patrick Swayze.
Jump will screen on Thursday, April 23, at 8:00 pm at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills. Based on a real story, the film (co-written by Sinclair and Ryan James) follows the biased murder trial of the young Jew and future celebrity portrait photographer Philippe Halsman (Silverstone), who was accused of murdering his father in late 1920s Austria. Swayze plays the young man’s Jewish attorney.
Also in the Jump cast: Martine McCutcheon, and veterans Stefanie Powers, Richard Johnson, and Sybil [...]
by Andre Soares | April 17, 2009
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Joseph Pevney
Director Joseph Pevney died this past May 18. He was 96.
Pevney was best known — among the few who’d heard of him — for his 1950s B-movies made at Universal, though beginning in the late 1950s he went on to direct countless episodes of TV series ranging from Bewitched and The Big Valley to Star Trek and The Incredible Hulk.
Among Pevney’s 1950s efforts are the Frank Sinatra drama Meet Danny Wilson (1951), made when Sinatra’s career was in the doldrums; Desert Legion (1953), starring Alan Ladd; It Happens Every Thursday (1952), Loretta Young’s last feature film; and 3 Ring Circus (1954), with Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, and Joanne Dru.
Also, the over-the-top melodrama Female on the Beach (photo, 1954), which [...]
by Andre Soares | May 29, 2008
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Tags: Alan Ladd, Bewitched, Cash McCall, Classic Movies, Debbie Reynolds, Desert Legion, Errol Flynn, Female on the Beach, Istanbul, It Happens Every Thursday, James Cagney, James Garner, Jeff Chandler, Joan Crawford, Joseph Pevney, Loretta Young, Man with a Thousand Faces, Meet Danny Wilson, Natalie Wood, Star Trek, Tammy and the Bachelor, The Big Valley, Universal
Costume Designers Guild Awards 2005
2005 Costume Designers Guild Awards
2005 Costume Designers Guild award winners: Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on February 19, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Liam Aiken, Emily Browning, Meryl Streep in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (top); Willem Dafoe, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (bottom)
Best Costume Design – Fantasy/Period Film
* Colleen Atwood Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Alexandra Byrne The Phantom of the Opera
Sharen Davis Ray
Sandy Powell The Aviator
Janty Yates DeLovely
Best Costume Design – Contemporary Film
Milena Canonero Ocean’s Twelve
* Milena Canonero The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Beatrix Aruna Pasztor Alfie
Catherine Thomas Kill Bill, Vol. 2
Melissa Toth Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Costume Design – Contemporary [...]
by Andre Soares | February 19, 2005
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Tags: Colleen Atwood, Costume Designers Guild Awards, Debbie Reynolds, Film Awards, Jill Taylor, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Milena Canonero, Patricia Field, Sex and the City, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
