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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Joseph L. Mankiewicz</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/joseph-l-mankiewicz/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:31:06 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards: Odd Men Out George Cukor, John Huston, Vincente Minnelli</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/dga-awards-academy-awards-a-letter-to-three-wives-mankiewicz/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/dga-awards-academy-awards-a-letter-to-three-wives-mankiewicz/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:14:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25968</guid> <description><![CDATA[Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Jeanne Crain, A Letter to Three Wives DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards Pt.2: Foreign, Small, Controversial Movies Have Better Luck at the Oscars Since pre-1970 Directors Guild Award finalists often consisted of more than five directors, it was impossible to get an exact match for the DGA's and the Academy's lists of nominees. In the list below, the years before 1970 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/dga-awards-academy-awards-a-letter-to-three-wives-mankiewicz/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards: Usually But Not Always a Match</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/dga-awards-vs-academy-directors-branch/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/dga-awards-vs-academy-directors-branch/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:40:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25967</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ralph Fiennes in Oscar nominee (but not DGA nominee) Stephen Daldry's The Reader In 1948, the 12-year-old Directors Guild of America (DGA), then known as the Screen Directors Guild (SDG), began handing out annual achievement awards. Three Best Director Oscar winners &#8212; Frank Capra, John Ford, and Norman Taurog &#8212; alongside George Sidney, Delmer Daves, H. Bruce Humberstone, Irving Pichel, and, ex-officio, Guild president George [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/dga-awards-vs-academy-directors-branch/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Linda Darnell on TCM: A LETTER TO THREE WIVES, NO WAY OUT</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/linda-darnell-a-letter-to-three-wives-no-way-out/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/linda-darnell-a-letter-to-three-wives-no-way-out/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:48:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27636</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, Jeanne Crain, A Letter to Three Wives Linda Darnell, the gorgeous leading lady of numerous 20th Century Fox productions of the '40s, is Turner Classic Movies' &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; player this Saturday, August 27. TCM, which has leased titles from the Fox library, is showing 14 Linda Darnell movies, including no less than 9 TCM premieres. [Linda Darnell Movie Schedule.] [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/linda-darnell-a-letter-to-three-wives-no-way-out/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Alfred Hitchcock&#039;s REBECCA, Gene Tierney&#039;s DRAGONWYCK, Horror Omnibus DEAD OF NIGHT on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-rebecca-gene-tierney-dragonwyck-dead-of-night/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-rebecca-gene-tierney-dragonwyck-dead-of-night/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:04:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25415</guid> <description><![CDATA[Michael Redgrave in the &#34;The Ventriloquist's Dummy&#34; segment in Dead of Night (top); Gene Tierney in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Dragonwyck (middle); Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (bottom) Turner Classic Movies' horror/mystery/suspense Halloween marathon kicks off this evening with a showing of the 1945 British classic Dead of Night, which, 65 years later, remains one of the best efforts in the psychological-horror genre. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-rebecca-gene-tierney-dragonwyck-dead-of-night/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>VIRIDIANA, THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA, FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS: Spain&#039;s Top Ten Censored Movies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/viridiana-for-whom-the-bell-tolls-spain-censored-movies/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/viridiana-for-whom-the-bell-tolls-spain-censored-movies/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:43:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25299</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ingrid Bergman, Gary Cooper in Sam Wood's For Whom the Bell Tolls (top); &#34;The Last Supper&#34; scene in Luis Buñuel's Viridiana (middle); Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris (bottom) The ludicrous censors at the Motion Picture Association of America and their precursors at the Production Code Office have always had counterparts in other countries. Whether for political, religious, social, economic, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/viridiana-for-whom-the-bell-tolls-spain-censored-movies/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz Dies: James Bond Movies, SUPERMAN</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tom-mankiewicz-screenwriter-james-bond-movies-superman/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tom-mankiewicz-screenwriter-james-bond-movies-superman/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:46:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24888</guid> <description><![CDATA[Screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz, best known for his work on the James Bond flicks Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, and The Man with the Golden Gun, and for the 1978 Superman, died Saturday, July 31, at his Los Angeles home. Mankiewicz, who had been suffering from cancer, was 68. In addition to his work as a screenwriter (other credits include The Sweet Ride, The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tom-mankiewicz-screenwriter-james-bond-movies-superman/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Sydney Pollack, Jane Powell, James L. Brooks, Norma Talmadge, Alan J. Pakula: Academy Library Acquisitions</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/sydney-pollack-jane-powell-james-l-brooks-norma-talmadge/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/sydney-pollack-jane-powell-james-l-brooks-norma-talmadge/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 15:13:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24277</guid> <description><![CDATA[James L. Brooks, among whose films are Terms of Endearment (1983), Broadcast News (1987), and As Good As It Gets (1997) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Margaret Herrick Library celebrated the acquisition of 12 unique collections on Wednesday, May 19. Among the collections are the Joseph L. Mankiewicz Papers, Alan J. Pakula Papers, Sydney Pollack Papers, Jane Powell Papers, and Norma Talmadge [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/sydney-pollack-jane-powell-james-l-brooks-norma-talmadge/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>DGA Awards: First Female Best Director?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/directors-guild-dga-awards-woman-director-449/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/directors-guild-dga-awards-woman-director-449/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:30:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21466</guid> <description><![CDATA[The five nominees for the 2010 Directors Guild Award are Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker, James Cameron for Avatar, Lee Daniels for Precious, Jason Reitman for Up in the Air, and Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds. The likely winner? Following the Producers Guild Award going to The Hurt Locker (box-office gross: less than $13 million) instead of Avatar (box-office gross: more than $560 million), [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/directors-guild-dga-awards-woman-director-449/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark: NO WAY OUT Screening</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/no-way-out-ruby-dee-linda-darnell/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/no-way-out-ruby-dee-linda-darnell/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:14:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15770</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark in No Way Out Ruby Dee will be the special guest at a screening of No Way Out (1950), part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Monday Nights with Oscar” series on September 21 at 7 p.m. at the Academy Theater in New York City. Film historian and scholar Foster Hirsch will host this celebration of the centennial [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/no-way-out-ruby-dee-linda-darnell/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Ben Mankiewicz at Joseph L. Mankiewicz Salute</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/sidney-poitier-martin-landau-ben-mankiewicz/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/sidney-poitier-martin-landau-ben-mankiewicz/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:29:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=13549</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented &#34;An Academy Centennial Salute to Joseph L. Mankiewicz,&#34; on Thursday, May 21, 2009, at the Academy's headquarters in Beverly Hills. Pictured above at the reception for the event from left to right: Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz (nephew); Sidney Poitier, who was featured in Mankiewicz's 1950 drama No Way Out; Rosemary Mankiewicz (widow, seated); Martin [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/sidney-poitier-martin-landau-ben-mankiewicz/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Joseph L. Mankiewicz Centennial</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/joseph-l-mankiewicz-centennial/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/joseph-l-mankiewicz-centennial/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 07:32:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11103</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/joseph-l-mankiewicz-centennial/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Joseph L. Mankiewicz Tribute: SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/joseph-l-mankiewicz-suddenly-last-summer/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/joseph-l-mankiewicz-suddenly-last-summer/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 07:31:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11109</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joseph L. Mankiewicz Centennial &#8211; Part I And if Guys and Dolls (1955) was a bore &#8212; just about everyone in this film musical is miscast, from Brando to Mankiewicz himself &#8212; the director recovered his touch with the adult (and bizarre) Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), a psychotic psychological drama adapted by Gore Vidal and (officially) Tennessee Williams from Williams's own play. (Williams later said [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/joseph-l-mankiewicz-suddenly-last-summer/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1947</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1947/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1947/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:07:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11622</guid> <description><![CDATA[Deborah Kerr, Kathleen Byron, David Farrar in Black Narcissus FILM Black Narcissus d, scr: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Cheyenne d: Raoul Walsh; scr: Alan Le May, Thames Williamson Crossfire d: Edward Dmytryk; scr: John Paxton Down to Earth d: Alexander Hall; scr: Edwin Blum, Don Hartman The Ghost and Mrs. Muir d: Joseph L. Mankiewicz; scr: Philip Dunne Life with Father d: Michael Curtiz; [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1947/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
