Joseph L. Mankiewicz Articles
VIRIDIANA, THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA, FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS: Spain’s Top Ten Censored Movies
Ingrid Bergman, Gary Cooper in Sam Wood’s For Whom the Bell Tolls (top); "The Last Supper" 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, [...]
Screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz Dies: James Bond Movies, SUPERMAN
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 [...]
Sydney Pollack, Jane Powell, James L. Brooks, Norma Talmadge, Alan J. Pakula: Academy Library Acquisitions
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 [...]
DGA Awards: First Female Best Director?
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), [...]