Great Directors Series on Turner Classic Movies
Jeanne Moreau, Henri Serre, Oskar Werner in François Truffaut’s Jules et Jim
In June, Turner Classic Movies‘ month-long series "Great Directors" will be celebrating the efforts of 52 films directors, from past and present, from Hollywood and overseas (though, as to be expected, mostly Hollywood).
Among TCM’s "greats" are, inevitably, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Steven Spielberg, and John Ford, but also Jacques Tourneur, Mervyn LeRoy, and Budd Boetticher.
Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Carol Reed, and Ingmar Bergman are four of the non-Hollywood filmmakers who have been included in the series.
Each weekday of the "Great Directors" series will feature two directors — one during the day; the other at night. The daytime lineup includes Victor Fleming (June [...]
by Andre Soares | April 21, 2009
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Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Budd Boeticher, Cecil B. DeMille, Classic Movies, David Lean, Federico Fellini, Frank Capra, Fritz Lang, George Cukor, Great Directors, Howard Hawks, Jacques Tourneur, John Ford, Leo McCarey, Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz, Orson Welles, Otto Preminger, Steven Spielberg, Victor Fleming, Vincente Minnelli, William Wyler, Woody Allen
Best Films – 1940
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: Ted Sears, Otto Englander and others
Pride and Prejudice
d: Robert Z. Leonard; scr: Aldous Huxley, Jane Murfin
Rebecca
d: Alfred Hitchcock; scr: Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison
Waterloo Bridge
d: Mervyn LeRoy; scr: S.N. Behrman, Hans Rameau, George Froeschel
Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday
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Busman’s Honeymoon / Haunted Honeymoon
d: Arthur B. Woods; scr: Monckton Hoffe, Angus MacPhail, Harold Goldman
His Girl Friday
d: Howard Hawks; scr: Charles Lederer
The Long Voyage Home
d: John [...]
by Andre Soares | April 4, 2009
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Tags: Aldous Huxley, Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Newman, Anita Loos, Basil Rathbone, Bella Spewack, Bess Meredyth, Best Films, Bette Davis, Busman's Honeymoon, Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Chaplin, Charles Lederer, Classic Movies, Constance Cummings, Edna May Oliver, Ernest Haller, Florence Bates, Frieda Inescort, George Barnes, Ginger Rogers, Greer Garson, Henry Fonda, Herbert Marshall, Herbert Stothart, His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks, Howard Koch, Irene Dunne, Irving Pichel, Jack Oakie, James Stephenson, Jane Darwell, Jane Murfin, Joan Crawford, Joan Fontaine, Joan Harrison, Joel McCrea, John Ford, Judith Anderson, Karl Freund, Kitty Foyle, Laurence Olivier, Leo McCarey, Marjorie Main, Mary Boland, Max Steiner, Melville Cooper, Mervyn LeRoy, Micheline Presle, Nunnally Johnson, Pinocchio, Pride and Prejudice, Ray Rennahan, Rebecca, Robert E. Sherwood, Robert Montgomery, Robert Z. Leonard, Rosalind Russell, Rouben Mamoulian, Roy Webb, Sam Spewack, Sam Wood, Susan and God, The Blue Bird, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Dictator, The Letter, The Long Voyage Home, The Man I Married, The Mark of Zorro, The Philadelphia Story, Tyrone Power, Virginia City, Vivien Leigh, Walter Lang, Waterloo Bridge, William Wyler
Best Films – 1931
Willi Fritsch and Lilian Harvey in Congress Dances
FILM
À nous la liberté / Liberty for Us
d, scr: René Clair
City Streets
d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: Max Marcin, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Dashiell Hammett
Daybreak
d: Jacques Feyder; scr: Ruth Cummings, Cyril Hume, Zelda Sears
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
d: Rouben Mamoulian; scr: Samuel Hoffenstein, Percy Heath
Five Star Final
d: Mervyn LeRoy; scr: Robert Lord, Byron Morgan
Der Kongreß tanzt / Congress Dances
d: Erik Charell; scr: Norbert Falk, Robert Liebmann
The Maltese Falcon / Dangerous Female
d: Roy del Ruth; scr: Maude Fulton, Lucien Hubbard, Brown Holmes
The New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
d: Sam Wood; scr: Charles MacArthur
The Public Enemy
d: William A. Wellman; scr: Kubec F. Glasmon, [...]
by Andre Soares | April 3, 2009
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Tags: A nous la liberte, Alfred E. Green, Aline MacMahon, Barney McGill, Bartlett Cormack, Best Films, Boris Karloff, Brown Holmes, Byron Morgan, Carl Hoffman, Carl-Heinz Schroth, Charles Lederer, Charpin, Cimarron, City Streets, Classic Movies, Congress Dances, Cuban Love Song, Cyril Hume, Dashiell Hammett, Daybreak, Der Kongress tanzt, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, Dudley Digges, Edmund Lowe, Edna May Oliver, Edward G. Robinson, Ernest Torrence, Ernest Vajda, Ernst Lubitsch, Five Star Final, Francis Edward Faragoh, Garrett Fort, Gary Cooper, George J. Folsey, Greta Garbo, Guy Bolton, Guy Kibbee, Harvey Thew, Helen Chandler, J. Grubb Alexander, Jacques Feyder, James Whale, James Wong Howe, Janie Mareze, John Barrymore, John L. Balderston, Joseph Jackson, Karl Freund, Karl Struss, La Chienne, Lee Garmes, Lewis Milestone, Lilian Harvey, Little Caesar, Louise Fazenda, Lucien Hubbard, Lyn Harling, Marius, Marlene Dietrich, Mata Hari, Maude Fulton, Max Marcin, Merritt B. Gerstad, Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz, Michel Simon, Miriam Hopkins, Ona Munson, Otto Matieson, Paul Lukas, Percy Heath, Raimu, Ramon Novarro, René Clair, Ricardo Cortez, Robert Lord, Robert N. Lee, Rouben Mamoulian, Roy Del Ruth, Ruth Cummings, Sam Wood, Samson Raphaelson, Samuel Hoffenstein, Smart Money, Sylvia Sidney, The Bitch, The Hot Heiress, The Mad Genius, The Maltese Falcon, The New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, The Public Enemy, The Smiling Lieutenant, Transatlantic, Willi Fritsch, William A. Wellman, William H. Daniels, William Haines, William K. Howard, Zelda Sears
