Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark: NO WAY OUT Screening
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 of director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s birth and the recent gift of Mankiewicz’ papers to the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library.
In the socially conscious No Way Out, Richard Widmark plays a racist patient — and petty criminal — who, following his brother’s death, becomes intent on destroying the life [...]
by Andre Soares | September 3, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lesser Samuels, Linda Darnell, New York Screenings, No Way Out, Oscar 1950, Oscar Movies, Richard Widmark, Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, Socially Conscious Movies
Joseph L. Mankiewicz Centennial
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 in Beverly Hills.
The evening will also celebrate the recent gift of the Joseph L. Mankiewicz Papers to the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library. Turner Classic Movies host and The Young Turks co-creator Ben Mankiewicz, Joseph L.’s great nephew and grandson of Citizen Kane co-screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, will host [...]
by Andre Soares | May 1, 2009
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Tags: 5 Fingers, A Letter to Three Wives, Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, All About Eve, All the King's Men, Ann Sothern, Anne Baxter, Ava Gardner, Ben Mankiewicz, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Celeste Holm, Citizen Kane, Classic Movies, Claudette Colbert, Danielle Darrieux, Dragonwyck, Edmond O'Brien, Edward G. Robinson, Elizabeth Taylor, Finlay Currie, Fritz Lang, Fury, Gay Interest, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, Herman J. Mankiewicz, House of Strangers, James Mason, Jeanne Crain, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Julius Caesar, Katharine Hepburn, Linda Darnell, Los Angeles Screenings, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, No Way Out, People Will Talk, Rita Hayworth, Robert Rossen, Ronald Colman, Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy, Suddenly Last Summer, TCM, The Barefoot Contessa, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Late George Apley, The Philadelphia Story, The Young Turks, Thelma Ritter, Turner Classic Movies
Rouben Mamoulian Retrospective at Film Forum
"Mamoulian," a complete retrospective of Hollywood director Rouben Mamoulian (1897-1987), one of cinema’s greatest stylists and innovators, will run at the Film Forum from Friday, September 7 through Tuesday, September 18.
As per the Film Forum’s press release, Mamoulian was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, to an Armenian family. He worked at the Moscow Art Theater while attending university, and, following a chance meeting with industrialist/philanthropist George Eastman (founder of the Kodak film company) he moved to Rochester, New York, to direct plays.
Shortly thereafter he was on Broadway, directing Dorothy and Dubose Heyward’s Porgy, which became the basis for George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, a musical that Mamoulian would also direct. [See Porgy and Bess screening in New York.]
That initial [...]
by Andre Soares | August 22, 2007
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Tags: Applause, Arthur Miller, Becky Sharp, Bess Meredyth, Blood and Sand, Classic Movies, Ernst Lubitsch, Film Festivals, Film Forum, Greta Garbo, Jeanette MacDonald, Linda Darnell, Love Me Tonight, Maurice Chevalier, Miriam Hopkins, Porgy and Bess, Pre-Code Hollywood, Queen Christina, Ray Rennahan, Rouben Mamoulian, The Mark of Zorro, Tyrone Power
Best Films – 1946
Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford in Gilda
FILM
Anna and the King of Siam
d: John Cromwell; scr: Talbot Jennings, Sally Benson
The Best Years of Our Lives
d: William Wyler; scr: Robert E. Sherwood
Cloak and Dagger
d: Fritz Lang; scr: Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner Jr.
From This Day Forward
d: John Berry; scr: Hugo Butler, Garson Kanin
Gilda
d: Charles Vidor; scr: Marion Parsonnet
Margie
d: Henry King; scr: F. Hugh Herbert
A Night in Casablanca
d: Archie Mayo; scr: Joseph Fields, Roland Kibbee, Frank Tashlin
Le Père tranquille / Mr. Orchid
d: René Clément; scr: Noël-Noël
Sciuscià / Shoeshine
d: Vittorio De Sica; scr: Cesare Zavattini, Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola
The Spiral Staircase
d: Robert Siodmak; scr: Mel Dinelli
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My Darling Clementine
d: John Ford; scr: [...]
by Andre Soares | August 31, 2004
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Tags: A Matter of Life and Death, A Night in Casablanca, Adolfo Franci, Albert Maltz, Anna and the King of Siam, Anthony Wager, Archie Mayo, Arthur C. Miller, Ava Gardner, Bernard Herrmann, Best Films, Burt Lancaster, Butterfly McQueen, Cecil Kellaway, Cesare Giulio Viola, Cesare Zavattini, Charles G. Clarke, Charles Vidor, Clarence Brown, Classic Movies, Claude Rains, Cloak and Dagger, David Niven, David O. Selznick, Deception, Dorothy McGuire, Duel in the Sun, Elwood Bredell, Ernest Haller, F. Hugh Herbert, Finlay Currie, Florence Bates, Frank Tashlin, Fredric March, Fritz Lang, From This Day Forward, Gale Sondergaard, Garson Kanin, Gary Cooper, George Barnes, George Brent, Gilda, Glenn Ford, Great Expectations, Gregory Peck, Guy Green, Harold Rosson, Henry King, Hugo Butler, Humoresque, Humphrey Bogart, Irene Dunne, Jane Wyman, Jeanne Crain, Jennifer Jones, Joan Crawford, Joan Fontaine, John Berry, John Cromwell, John Ford, John Garfield, Joseph Fields, Joseph P. MacDonald, King Vidor, Le Père tranquille, Lee Garmes, Leopoldine Konstantin, Lilli Palmer, Linda Darnell, Margie, Marion Parsonnet, Marius Goring, Mel Dinelli, Mr. Orchid, My Darling Clementine, Myrna Loy, Nicholas Musuraca, Noël Noël, Notorious, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Paul Osborn, Queenie Smith, Ray Rennahan, René Clement, Ring Lardner Jr., Rita Hayworth, Robert E. Sherwood, Robert Siodmak, Roland Kibbee, Sally Benson, Samuel G. Engel, Saratoga Trunk, Sciuscià, Sergio Amidei, Shoeshine, Talbot Jennings, Teresa Wright, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Big Sleep, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Spiral Staircase, The Yearling, Vittorio De Sica, Walter Huston, William Wyler, Winston Miller
