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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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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