Great Directors Series on Turner Classic Movies
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, Mervyn LeRoy, and Budd Boetticher.
Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Carol Reed, and Ingmar Bergman are four of the non-Hollywood filmmakers who have been included in the series.
Each weekday of the "Great Directors" series will feature two directors — one during the day; the other at night. The daytime lineup includes Victor Fleming (June [...]
by Andre Soares | April 21, 2009
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Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Budd Boeticher, Cecil B. DeMille, Classic Movies, David Lean, Federico Fellini, Frank Capra, Fritz Lang, George Cukor, Great Directors, Howard Hawks, Jacques Tourneur, John Ford, Leo McCarey, Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz, Orson Welles, Otto Preminger, Steven Spielberg, Victor Fleming, Vincente Minnelli, William Wyler, Woody Allen
Federico Fellini’s 8½ Screening
In conjunction with its exhibition “Fellini’s Book of Dreams” — which is definitely worth a visit — the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a special screening of Federico Fellini’s Academy Award-winning 1963 extravaganza 8½ on Friday, April 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The evening will be hosted by Robert Rosen, dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
There have been homages and imitations ever since (Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz comes to mind), but no self-analytical film that I’ve seen gets even close to what Fellini accomplished in 8½, while very few films about the art of moviemaking have been nearly as artful [...]
by Andre Soares | March 24, 2009
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Tags: 8 1/2, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Anouk Aimee, Barbara Steele, Classic Movies, Claudia Cardinale, Federico Fellini, Fellini's Book of Dreams, Films on Filmmaking, Giulietta Masina, Los Angeles Screenings, Marcello Mastroianni, Oscar 1963, Sandra Milo
Claudia Cardinale Remembers Luchino Visconti
At Cafebabel.com, there’s a curious chat with screen legend Claudia Cardinale and French newcomer Alexandre Styker. Here’s a brief quote from the piece:
"’I would have liked to have worked with Visconti too,’ the young man [Styker] continues to discuss his unrealised dreams. ‘Of course,’ Claudia replies, ‘the man was a genius! I made four films with him, he took me all over the world and showered me with gifts.’ So he was a real character, the legendary Italian director? ‘He used to say that I was a kitten that could be stroked, but a kitten with claws. Visconti was a man of the theatre, you couldn’t move a muscle if he didn’t want you [...]
by Edwige Andersson | March 24, 2009
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Tags: 8 1/2, Alain Delon, Alexandre Styker, Burt Lancaster, Classic Movies, Claudia Cardinale, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Rocco and His Brothers, The Leopard
Fellini’s BOOK OF DREAMS
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ new exhibition, “Fellini’s Book of Dreams,” opens on Saturday, January 24, in the Academy’s Grand Lobby Gallery in Beverly Hills. Admission is free.
“Fellini’s Book of Dreams” features two original notebooks on which Federico Fellini jotted down his thoughts and fantasies from the 1960s to 1990, in addition to more than 100 reproductions of original pages from Fellini’s Book of Dreams, which includes numerous images that inspired his most renowned films. As a plus, the exhibition will showcase self-portraits, celebrity caricatures, and film clips.
Fellini, who died in 1993 at the age of 73, received a total of 12 Academy Award nominations (four for [...]
by Andre Soares | January 16, 2009
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Tags: Federico Fellini, Fellini's Book of Dreams, Los Angeles Screenings
AMARCORD Review II
AMARCORD Review: Part I
There are the fantasy and tall tale sequences at the hotel, narrated by the Lawyer (Luigi Rossi) — one of several Fourth Wall breakers — the fantasy marriage of fat boy Ciccio to sexy Aldina at the behest of the floral image of Mussolini, and the townsfolk rowing out to see the fantastical America-bound luxury liner, The Rex.
Nino Rota’s score is the best thing in the film, though Giuseppe Rotunno’s cinematography is not far behind, especially in the sunset scene where Uncle Teo is coaxed down from the apple tree and back to the asylum.
The Criterion Collection’s two-disc DVD is a great improvement on the 1998 single-disc edition. It is a radiant film transfer, [...]
by Dan Schneider | January 24, 2007
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Tags: Amarcord, Classic Movies, DVDs, Federico Fellini, Film Reviews, Nino Rota
AMARCORD d: Federico Fellini
Amarcord (1973)
Direction: Federico Fellini
Screenplay: Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra
Cast: Bruno Zanin, Magali Noël, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Ciccio Ingrassia, Nando Orfei, Luigi Rossi, Gianfilippo Carcano, Josiane Tanzilli, Maria Antonietta Beluzzi , Giuseppe Ianigro, Ferruccio Brembilla
By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
Federico Fellini’s Amarcord has often been linked with Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny & Alexander as films made by old men looking back on their youth. While this is true, Amarcord has a loose narrative structure in which the lives of many characters are detailed in comic vignettes whereas Fanny & Alexander is a straight drama.
In fact, Amarcord shares a deeper affinity with another work that was obviously influenced by it: Woody Allen’s grossly underrated Radio Days. Which of [...]
by Dan Schneider | January 24, 2007
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Tags: Amarcord, Classic Movies, Coming-of-Age Movies, Federico Fellini, Film Reviews, Magali Noël, Oscar 1974, Oscar 1975, Oscar Movies, Period Movies
Best Films – 1945
Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter
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Blithe Spirit
d: David Lean; scr: Noel Coward
Boule de suif / Angel and Sinner
d: Christian-Jaque; scr: Henri Jeanson
Brief Encounter
d: David Lean; scr: Noel Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame
Dead of Night
d: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer; scr: John Baines, Angus MacPhail
Les Enfants du paradis / Children of Paradise
d: Marcel Carné; scr: Jacques Prévert
Leave Her to Heaven
d: John M. Stahl; scr: Jo Swerling
Love Letters
d: William Dieterle; scr: Ayn Rand
Mildred Pierce
d: Michael Curtiz; scr: Ranald McDougall, Catherine Turney
A Royal Scandal
d: Otto Preminger; scr: Edwin Justus Mayer
State Fair
d: Walter Lang; scr: Paul Green, Oscar Hammerstein II, Sonya Levien
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
d: Elia Kazan; scr: Tess Slesinger, Frank [...]
by Andre Soares | August 31, 2004
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Tags: A Royal Scandal, A Song to Remember, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Alberto Cavalcanti, Aldo Fabrizi, Alexis Smith, Along Came Jones, Angel and Sinner, Ann Blyth, Anna Magnani, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ayn Rand, Basil Dearden, Best Films, Blithe Spirit, Boris Karloff, Boule de suif, Brief Encounter, Caesar and Cleopatra, Casey Robinson, Catherine Turney, Celia Johnson, Charles Coburn, Charles Crichton, Children of Paradise, Classic Movies, Claude Rains, Confidential Agent, Constance Cummings, Cyril Raymond, David Lean, Dead of Night, DeWitt Bodeen, Donna Reed, Dorothy McGuire, Douglas Slocombe, Edward Cronjager, Edward G. Robinson, Edwin Justus Mayer, Eleanor Parker, Elia Kazan, Ernest Haller, Eve Arden, Federico Fellini, Frank Davis, Franz Waxman, Gary Cooper, Gene Lockhart, Gene Tierney, Harry Stradling, Henri Jeanson, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Ivan the Terrible, Jacques Prevert, James Dunn, Jennifer Jones, Jo Swerling, Joan Blondell, Joan Crawford, Joan Lorring, John Cromwell, John M. Stahl, Kay Hammond, Leave Her to Heaven, Lee Garmes, Leon Shamroy, Les Enfants du Paradis, Love Letters, Marcel Carne, Margaret Rutherford, María Casarès, Max Steiner, Michael Curtiz, Michael Redgrave, Micheline Presle, Mildred Pierce, Nob Hill, Noel Coward, Open City, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Preminger, Pavel Kadochnikov, Peggy Ann Garner, Pierre Brasseur, Pride of the Marines, Ranald McDougall, Rhapsody in Blue, Richard Rodgers, Robert Hamer, Robert Krasker, Roma citta aperta, Ronald Neame, Scarlet Street, Sergio Amidei, State Fair, Tallulah Bankhead, Ted Tetzlaff, Tess Slesinger, The Body Snatcher, The Corn Is Green, The Enchanted Cottage, The House on 92nd Street, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Southerner, The Woman in the Window, They Were Expendable, Tony Gaudio, Trevor Howard, Victor Young, Vincent Price, Walter Lang, William Dieterle, Zachary Scott
