Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift: FROM HERE TO ETERNITY Screening
Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster make love in From Here to Eternity(top); Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra do a little (sorta) lovemaking of their own later on in the film (bottom)
Fred Zinnemann’s 1953 Academy Award-winning drama From Here to Eternity, starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, and Frank Sinatra, will be screened by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wednesday, November 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The presentation will feature the premiere of a new digital restoration, as well as an onstage discussion with Ernest Borgnine, who has a supporting role in the film.
Adapted by Daniel Taradash from James Jones‘ bestselling [...]
by Andre Soares | November 9, 2009
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Tags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Burt Lancaster, Classic Movies, Daniel Taradash, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Sinatra, Fred Zinnemann, From Here to Eternity, Joan Crawford, Los Angeles Screenings, Montgomery Clift, Oscar 1953, Oscar Movies
Out at the Pictures: DESERT HEARTS, GET REAL, JULIA, COCKLES AND MUSCLES
Patricia Charbonneau, Helen Shaver in Desert Hearts
The British Film Institute will screen four films with (at least some) gay content in their "Out at the Pictures" series in the next two months. The four titles are: Desert Hearts (1985), Get Real (1998), Julia (1977), and Crustacés et coquillages / Cockles and Muscles / Cote d’Azur (2005). The series will also feature "Generations of Love," an intergenerational panel discussion. (See full schedule below.)
Based on Pentimento, Lillian Hellman’s 1973 book of (highly fictionalized) memoirs in which Hellman discusses her close friendship with a woman named "Julia," Julia is my favorite Fred Zinnemann film. Jane Fonda can be quite actressy, but her Lillian Hellman is perhaps her most sober, self-contained characterization, [...]
by Andre Soares | January 6, 2009
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Tags: Ben Silverstone, Cote d'Azur, Desert Hearts, Donna Deitch, Fred Zinnemann, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Get Real, Julia, Lesbian Interest, London Screenings
Fred Zinnemann’s Oscar Nominated Actors
Fred Zinnemann
20 Acting Nominations
(s) supporting category
(*) Academy Award winner
Fred Zinnemann: Top Oscar Directors for Actors
1944
Hume Cronyn (s) The Seventh Cross
1948
Montgomery Clift The Search
1952
Gary Cooper High Noon *
Julie Harris The Member of the Wedding
1953
Montgomery Clift From Here to Eternity
Burt Lancaster From Here to Eternity
Deborah Kerr From Here to Eternity
Frank Sinatra (s) From Here to Eternity *
Donna Reed (s) From Here to Eternity *
1957
Anthony Franciosa A Hatful of Rain
1959
Audrey Hepburn The Nun’s Story
1960
Deborah Kerr The Sundowners
Glynis Johns (s) The Sundowners
1966
Paul Scofield (with Susanna York) A Man for All Seasons *
Robert Shaw (s) A Man for All Seasons
Wendy Hiller (s) A Man for All Seasons
1977
Jane Fonda Julia
Jason Robards (s) Julia*
Maximilian Schell (s) Julia
Vanessa Redgrave (s) Julia*
by Andre Soares | January 28, 2007
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Tags: A Man for All Seasons, Academy Awards, Audrey Hepburn, Classic Movies, Film Awards, Fred Zinnemann, Jane Fonda, Julia, Paul Scofield, The Nun's Story, Vanessa Redgrave
Fred Zinnemann: Top Oscar Directors for Actors
Fred Zinnemann began his career during the studio era, but kept on going, however sporadically, long after most of his contemporaries had retired. Even so, today his name means little for most audiences and critics alike. Why?
Quite possibly because, like William Wyler’s, Zinnemann’s relatively small oeuvre (21 narrative feature films) covers just about every film genre there is: Western (High Noon), romance (From Here to Eternity), socially conscious drama (The Search), historical drama (A Man for All Seasons), adventure (Five Days One Summer), thriller (The Day of the Jackal), crime (Act of Violence), comedy (My Brother Talks to Horses), and musical (Oklahoma).
Most film critics and historians are no different than most simpletons. They tend to value work that can be [...]
by Andre Soares | January 28, 2007
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Tags: Academy Awards, Burt Lancaster, Classic Movies, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Film Awards, Fred Zinnemann, From Here to Eternity, Gary Cooper, High Noon
Anthony Franciosa
Actor Anthony Franciosa died of a massive stroke this past Friday, Jan. 20, at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 77.
Franciosa’s film career began late — but auspiciously — in 1957. The 32-year-old actor (born in New York City on Oct. 28, 1925) had key roles in Robert Wise’s This Could Be the Night, George Cukor’s Wild Is the Wind, Elia Kazan’s A Face in the Crowd, and Fred Zinnemann’s A Hatful of Rain, in which he recreated his well-regarded Broadway role.
For his somewhat mechanical performance — stage mannerisms were much in evidence — Franciosa received his one and only best actor Academy Award nomination.
Yet, major stardom proved elusive. Although he was [...]
by Andre Soares | January 22, 2006
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Tags: A Hatful of Rain, A Period of Adjustment, Anthony Franciosa, Classic Movies, Fred Zinnemann, Rita Hayworth, Shelley Winters, The Long Hot Summer, The Story onf Page one, Wild Is the Wind
A HATFUL OF RAIN – Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray
A Hatful of Rain (1957)
Direction: Fred Zinnemann
Screenplay: Michael V. Gazzo, Alfred Hayes, Carl Foreman (originally uncredited); from Gazzo’s play
Cast: Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan, Henry Silva
Based on a play by Michael V. Gazzo, A Hatful of Rain is an interesting attempt at injecting "adult" subject matters — in this case, the evils of drug addiction — into Hollywood movies. "Interesting," however, does not mean either successful or compelling.
Despite real, unromantic New York locations and Joseph MacDonald’s beautifully realistic black-and-white camera work, this Fred Zinnemann-directed melodrama feels anachronistically stagy because of the overall artificiality of the dialogue and the hammy theatricality of the performances — with Eva Marie Saint as the sole naturalistic exception.
Somewhat revolutionary [...]
by Andre Soares | October 24, 2004
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Tags: A Hatful of Rain, Anthony Franciosa, Classic Movies, Don Murray, Eva Marie Saint, Film Reviews, Fred Zinnemann, Lloyd Nolan, Michael V. Gazzo, Oscar 1957, Oscar Movies
Best Films – 1948
Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan in Letter from an Unknown Woman
FILM
Anna Karenina
d: Julien Duvivier; scr: Jean Anouilh, Guy Morgan, Julien Duvivier
Cry of the City
d: Robert Siodmak; scr: Richard Murphy
Johnny Belinda
d: Jean Negulesco; scr: Irmgard von Cube, Allen Vincent
Key Largo
d: John Huston; scr: Richard Brooks, John Huston
Ladri di biciclette / The Bicycle Thief
d: Vittorio De Sica; scr: Oreste Biancoli, Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Vittorio De Sica, Adolfo Franci, Gherardo Gherardi, Gerardo Guerrieri, Cesare Zavattini
Letter from an Unknown Woman
d: Max Ophüls; scr: Howard Koch
Portrait of Jennie
d: William Dieterle; scr: Peter Berneis, Paul Osborn, Leonard Berrovici
State of the Union
d: Frank Capra; scr: Anthony Veiller, Myles Connolly
The Winslow Boy
d: Anthony Asquith; scr: Terence Rattigan, Anatole de Grunwald
Joan [...]
by Andre Soares | August 31, 2004
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Tags: A Foreign Affair, Adolfo Franci, Alec Guinness, Alessandro Cicognini, Allen Vincent, Anatole de Grunwald, Anatole Litvak, Angela Lansbury, Anna Karenina, Anthony Asquith, Anthony Veiller, Barbara Stanwyck, Best Films, Billy Wilder, Cary Grant, Cecil Parker, Cedric Hardwicke, Celeste Holm, Cesare Zavattini, Charles Bickford, Charles Brackett, Charles Frend, Charles Lawton Jr., Claire Trevor, Classic Movies, Cry of the City, Daniele Amfitheatrof, David Wechsler, Desmond Dickinson, DeWitt Bodeen, Edith Evanston, Edward G. Robinson, Elsa Lanchester, Enzo Staiola, Ethel Barrymore, Frank Capra, Franz Planer, Fred Zinnemann, Fritz Lang, George Sidney, George Stevens, Gerardo Guerrieri, Gherardo Gherardi, Guy Morgan, H. C. Potter, Hamlet, Henri Alekan, Hope Emerson, Howard Koch, I Remember Mama, Irene Dunne, Irmgard von Cube, Ivan Jandl, Jane Wyman, Jean Anouilh, Jean Arthur, Jean Negulesco, Jennifer Jones, Joan Bennett, Joan Fontaine, John Farrow, John Huston, John Ireland, Johnny Belinda, Jonathan Latimer, Joseph Cotten, Joseph H. August, Julien Duvivier, Karl Freund, Katharine Hepburn, Key Largo, Kiss the Blood off My Hands, Ladri di biciclette, Lamberto Maggiorani, Leonard Berrovici, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Lionel Barrymore, Lucille Fletcher, Marlene Dietrich, Max Ophüls, Melvin Frank, Melvyn Douglas, Michèle Morgan, Mildred Natwick, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Myles Connolly, Norman Panama, Oliver Twist, Oreste Biancoli, Orson Welles, Paul Osborn, Peter Berneis, Portrait of Jennie, Quartet, Ralph Richardson, Red River, Richard Breen, Richard Brooks, Richard Leacock, Richard Murphy, Richard Schweizer, Rita Hayworth, Robert Ardrey, Robert Donat, Robert Planck, Robert Siodmak, Russell Metty, Scott of the Antarctic, Secret Beyond the Door, Silvia Richards, Sonia Dresdel, Sorry Wrong Number, Spencer Tracy, Stanley Cortez, State of the Union, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Terence Rattigan, The Bicycle Thief, The Big Clock, The Fallen Idol, The Kissing Bandit, The Lady from Shanghai, The Louisiana Story, The Search, The Snake Pit, The Three Musketeers, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Winslow Boy, Thomas Gomez, Vittorio De Sica, Vivien Leigh, Walter Huston, William Dieterle
