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Vanessa Redgrave The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will celebrate the career of Oscar winner Vanessa Redgrave, one of the most distinguished performers of the second half of the 20th century, with its "first-ever European tribute to an actor." The Redgrave salute will take place on Sunday, November 13, in London. Hosted by two-time Oscar nominee David Hare (The Hours, The Reader), the [...]

Brigitte Helm in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (top); Jack Holt, Fay Wray in Frank Capra's Dirigible (middle); Walter Huston, Barry Fitzgerald, Roland Young, Louis Hayward, Judith Anderson in René Clair's And Then There Were None (bottom) London's BFI Southbank will be screening several Frank Capra efforts today and on Saturday, in addition to films based on Agatha Christie's works and the restored Metropolis. Most notable among [...]

Jack Nicholson, Five Easy Pieces (top); Ivor Novello, Mabel Poulton, The Constant Nymph (middle); Jean Seberg, Breathless (bottom) Bob Rafelson's biting social critique Five Easy Pieces (1970), starring Jack Nicholson and Karen Black; Adrian Brunel's silent romantic drama The Constant Nymph (1928), a tale of "forbidden love" starring stage and movie idol Ivor Novello and Mabel Poulton; and Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave classic Breathless (1959), [...]

Topol in Joseph Losey's Galileo (top); Maggie Cheung in Zhang Yimou's Hero (middle); Jean-Pierre Cargol, François Truffaut in Truffaut's L'Enfant sauvage / The Wild Child (bottom) According to London's bfi Southbank site, filmmaker Joseph Losey, a victim of the Red Scare who settled in England in the '50s, had already directed Bertold Brecht’s play Galileo in 1947 in Los Angeles. In the 1974 film version [...]