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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Laurence Olivier</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/laurence-olivier/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>Alfred Hitchcock/REBECCA Remake</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-rebecca-remake-joan-fontaine/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-rebecca-remake-joan-fontaine/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:03:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=37182</guid> <description><![CDATA[Hollywood has been running out of ideas since filmmakers started making movies in Hollywood. Even the first &#34;official&#34; movie made in Hollywood proper, Cecil B. DeMille's 1914 Western The Squaw Man, wasn't an original story. DeMille's Western was based on Edwin Milton Royle's play. And prior to that, there had been movie shorts with titles such as The Squaw and the Man (1910), Cow-boy and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-rebecca-remake-joan-fontaine/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Laurence Olivier, Elizabeth Taylor, Charles Chaplin, Jennifer Saunders: BAFTA Fellowship Recipients</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/laurence-olivier-elizabeth-taylor-vanessa-redgrave-bafta-fellowship/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/laurence-olivier-elizabeth-taylor-vanessa-redgrave-bafta-fellowship/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:43:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=36448</guid> <description><![CDATA[BAFTA Fellowship: Few Women, Few Outside UK/Hollywood, Steven Spielberg Before Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Billy Wilder [Photo: Laurence Olivier] 1971 Alfred Hitchcock 1972 Freddie Young 1973 Grace Wyndham Goldie 1974 David Lean 1975 Jacques Cousteau 1976 Charles Chaplin, Laurence Olivier 1977 Denis Forman 1978 Fred Zinnemann 1979 Lew Grade, Huw Wheldon 1980 David Attenborough, John Huston 1981 Abel Gance, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 1982 Andrzej [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/laurence-olivier-elizabeth-taylor-vanessa-redgrave-bafta-fellowship/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>BFI Fellowship Recipients: From Bette Davis to Bernardo Bertolucci</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bfi-fellowship-bette-davis-bernardo-bertolucci/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bfi-fellowship-bette-davis-bernardo-bertolucci/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:02:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35381</guid> <description><![CDATA[David Cronenberg, Ralph Fiennes to Become BFI Fellows. [Right: Bette Davis.] The list of those who have received a British Film Institute Fellowship since it was first handed out in 1983 is quite extensive. [See below.] BFI Fellows include not only Britishers, but also numerous foreigners who have somehow or other been associated with either the film world or the BFI itself, among them directors [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/bfi-fellowship-bette-davis-bernardo-bertolucci/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kenneth Branagh as Laurence Olivier: MY WEEK WITH MARILYN</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kenneth-branagh-laurence-olivier-my-week-with-marilyn/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kenneth-branagh-laurence-olivier-my-week-with-marilyn/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:00:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27666</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kenneth Branagh as Laurence Olivier, My Week with Marilyn Once upon a time, Kenneth Branagh was hailed as the new Laurence Olivier. Back in early 1990, Branagh was nominated for two Academy Awards for directing and starring in Henry V, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play that back in early 1947 had earned Olivier a Best Actor nomination and an Honorary Award for &#34;his outstanding [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kenneth-branagh-laurence-olivier-my-week-with-marilyn/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jean Simmons on TCM: HAMLET, TRIO, SO LONG AT THE FAIR</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-simmons-hamlet-so-long-at-the-fair/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-simmons-hamlet-so-long-at-the-fair/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:39:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27246</guid> <description><![CDATA[Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Hamlet Star of the Month Jean Simmons is back on Turner Classic Movies this Tuesday evening, with five more films. Like last week, these are all from Simmons' British period: Trio, featuring three stories by W. Somerset Maugham; the thriller So Long at the Fair; Adam and Evelyne, which paired Simmons with future husband Stewart Granger; Laurence Olivier's Best Picture Oscar [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/jean-simmons-hamlet-so-long-at-the-fair/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>William Wyler&#039;s Oscar-Nominated Actors: Bette Davis, Laurence Olivier, Barbra Streisand</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/william-wyler-oscar-nominated-actors/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/william-wyler-oscar-nominated-actors/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:41:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16678</guid> <description><![CDATA[William Wyler 36 Acting Nominations (s), supporting category (*) Academy Award winner William Wyler: Record-Setting Oscar Director for Actors &#160; 1936 Walter Huston (above, with Ruth Chatterton), Dodsworth * Walter Brennan (s), Come and Get It (Wyler replaced Howard Hawks, who received co-directing credit) Bonita Granville (s), These Three Maria Ouspenskaya (s), Dodsworth &#160; 1937 Claire Trevor (s), Dead End &#160; 1938 * Bette Davis, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/william-wyler-oscar-nominated-actors/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>MARATHON MAN Review &#8211; Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Marthe Keller d: John Schlesinger</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/marathon-man-john-schlesinger/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/marathon-man-john-schlesinger/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 07:23:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/marathon-man-john-schlesinger/</guid> <description><![CDATA[MARATHON MAN (1976) Direction: John Schlesinger Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Richard Bright, Marc Lawrence Screenplay: William Goldman; from his own novel Oscar Movies Laurence Olivier, Marathon Man The deadliest sin a good-guy-vs.-bad-guy movie can commit is to &#8212; unintentionally &#8212; have us root for the evildoer. That is exactly what director John Schlesinger (Darling; Midnight Cowboy; [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/marathon-man-john-schlesinger/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA Review – Janet Suzman, Michael Jayston – d: Franklin J. Schaffner</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/nicholas-and-alexandra-franklin-schaffner-suzman/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/nicholas-and-alexandra-franklin-schaffner-suzman/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:30:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/nicholas-and-alexandra-franklin-schaffner-suzman/</guid> <description><![CDATA[NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA (1971) Direction: Franklin J. Schaffner Cast: Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Irene Worth, Laurence Olivier, Tom Baker, Harry Andrews, Michael Bryant, Maurice Denham, Jack Hawkins, Ian Holm, John McEnery, Eric Porter, Michael Redgrave, Alan Webb, Curd Jürgens, Lynne Frederick, Roderic Nobel Screenplay: James Goldman; from Robert K. Massie's 1967 historical novel Oscar Movies Nicholas and Alexandra is surely one of the most sumptuous [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/nicholas-and-alexandra-franklin-schaffner-suzman/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Laurence Olivier, Gene Kelly, Sam Wood, Bruce Beresford: Biggest Oscar Snubs #9b</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/laurence-olivier-gene-kelly-biggest-oscar-snubs/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/laurence-olivier-gene-kelly-biggest-oscar-snubs/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:36:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26125</guid> <description><![CDATA[Biggest Oscar Snubs #9a: List of Non-Nominated Directors &#8211; From William A. Wellman to Joe Wright The directors listed in the previous post &#8212; and I could add several other names to the roster &#8212; are those whose films received multiple Oscar nods, including Best Picture, but they (the directors themselves) failed to be shortlisted. [Note: Steven Spielberg for The Color Purple and Christopher Nolan [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/laurence-olivier-gene-kelly-biggest-oscar-snubs/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Naomi Watts, Michelle Williams to Play Marilyn Monroe</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/naomi-watts-michelle-williams-marilyn-monroe/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/naomi-watts-michelle-williams-marilyn-monroe/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 02:30:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24324</guid> <description><![CDATA[Two Marilyn Monroe movies for the price of, well, two &#8212; which quite possibly means $50 by the time they come out. One, to be called Blonde, will star King Kong's Naomi Watts as Monroe, apparently having affairs right and left. Based on Joyce Carol Oates’ fictionalized Monroe &#34;memoirs,&#34; Blonde will be directed by Andrew Dominik, best known for The Assassination of Jesse James by [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/naomi-watts-michelle-williams-marilyn-monroe/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Actress Jean Simmons Dies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jean-simmons-actress-195/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jean-simmons-actress-195/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:32:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Gregory Darnell</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21219</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jean Simmons, the beautiful actress who was nominated for Oscars for her work in Hamlet (1948) and The Happy Ending (1969), died of lung cancer on Friday night (Jan. 22) at her home in Santa Monica, Calif. The London-born actress would have turned 81 on Jan. 31. Simmons' film debut took place in the 1944 British comedy Give Us the Moon, in which she played [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jean-simmons-actress-195/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Claire Bloom TCM Schedule</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/television/claire-bloom-tcm-schedule/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/television/claire-bloom-tcm-schedule/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:33:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15568</guid> <description><![CDATA[Claire Bloom on Turner Classic Movies Claire Bloom, Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Claire Bloom on TCM Pacific Time 31 Monday 3:00 AM Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm, The (1962) Fanciful biography of the German fairy-tale collectors, with reenactments of three of their stories. Cast: Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Barbara Eden. Dir: Henry Levin, George Pal. C-136 mins. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/television/claire-bloom-tcm-schedule/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Hollywood’s Greatest Year in New York City</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/hollywood-greatest-year-1939-new-york/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/hollywood-greatest-year-1939-new-york/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:47:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=13266</guid> <description><![CDATA[Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (top); Bette Davis, Geraldine Fitzgerald in Dark Victory (middle); Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon in Wuthering Heights (bottom) Gone with the Wind, the 1939 Best Picture winner, will kick off the New York presentation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ latest screening series, &#34;Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939,&#34; on Saturday, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/hollywood-greatest-year-1939-new-york/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>WUTHERING HEIGHTS Screening</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/wuthering-heights-laurence-olivier-merle-oberon/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/wuthering-heights-laurence-olivier-merle-oberon/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:35:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=12914</guid> <description><![CDATA[The 1939 Best Picture nominee Wuthering Heights, directed by William Wyler, and starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier, will be the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939.” The Wuthering Heights screening will take place on Monday, June 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/wuthering-heights-laurence-olivier-merle-oberon/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</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>Jack Cardiff</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/jack-cardiff/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/jack-cardiff/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:55:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=10526</guid> <description><![CDATA[Cinematographer and director Jack Cardiff, one of the early masters of color cinematography, has died. He was 94. Cardiff's work as a cinematographer was quite eclectic, ranging from his partnership with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in the British-made Black Narcissus (1945) and The Red Shoes (1948) to prestigious international productions such as John Huston's The African Queen (1951) and King Vidor's War and Peace [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/jack-cardiff/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>QUEEN CHRISTINA &#8211; Greta Garbo, John Gilbert d: Rouben Mamoulian</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/queen-christina-greta-garbo-gilbert-mamoulian/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/queen-christina-greta-garbo-gilbert-mamoulian/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:20:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=10183</guid> <description><![CDATA[Queen Christina (1933) Direction: Rouben Mamoulian Screenplay: H. M. Harwood and S. N. Behrman Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, Elizabeth Young, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, David Torrence &#160; &#160; One of the most ambitious productions of the early 1930s, Queen Christina remains surprisingly modern in its execution thanks in large part to Rouben Mamoulian's assured hand. Those looking for historical [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/queen-christina-greta-garbo-gilbert-mamoulian/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1940</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1940/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1940/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:57:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4331</guid> <description><![CDATA[Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath FILM The Blue Bird d: Walter Lang; scr: Ernest Pascal The Grapes of Wrath d: John Ford; scr: Nunnally Johnson Kitty Foyle d: Sam Wood; scr: Dalton Trumbo The Letter d: William Wyler; scr: Howard Koch The Mark of Zorro d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: John Tainton Foote, Garrett Fort, Bess Meredyth Pinocchio d: Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen; scr: [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1940/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Marc Lawrence</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/marc-lawrence/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/marc-lawrence/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 03:00:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=209</guid> <description><![CDATA[Actor Marc Lawrence died of heart failure in Palm Springs, about 160 km east of Los Angeles, on Nov. 27. He was 95. The Brooklyn-born (as Max Goldsmith) rough-looking actor, who once described himself as "pock-marked and oily-skinned," appeared in more than 100 films from the early 1930s to the beginning of the 21st century, generally playing vicious outlaws. Having begun his acting career with [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/marc-lawrence/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
