Jack Nicholson Articles

Vanessa Redgrave Academy Salute: From Pariah to Honoree [Photo: Vanessa Redgrave, bearing an uncanny resemblance to Natasha Richardson, as ballerina Isadora Duncan in Isadora.] Later on, at the behest of producer Daniel Melnick (Straw Dogs, Making Love) screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky (The Goddess, Network) prefaced his announcement of the Best Screenwriting Oscar with the following (also via Inside Oscar): Before I get on to the writing [...]

Jack Nicholson, Barbra Streisand in Vincente Minnelli's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever At Film Threat, Phil Hall comes up with a follow-up to his 2008 article about important lost films. Among the 50 titles on Hall's highly eclectic new list are a version of Carmen (1915) starring Fox vamp Theda Bara; The Life of General Villa (1914), in which Mexican revolutionary Pancho [...]

THE DEPARTED (2006) Direction: Martin Scorsese Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Vera Farmiga, Mark Wahlberg, Alec Baldwin, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Anthony Anderson, Kevin Corrigan, James Badge Dale Screenplay: William Monahan; from Alan Mak and Felix Chong's screenplay for the 2002 film Infernal Affairs Oscar Movies Recommended with Reservations Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed Best Picture Academy Award winner The Departed boasts [...]

Maria Schneider, Jack Nicholson in Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger Maria Schneider Dies: LAST TANGO IN PARIS, THE PASSENGER Robert Altman, for his part, saw more than sex and dairy products in Last Tango in Paris, remarking, "Bertolucci has carried film honesty to its ultimate. How dare I make another movie? My personal and artistic life will never be the same." Ingmar Bergman, fresh from his [...]