Shadows of Russia: Communism on TCM
Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas in Ninotchka (top); Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford in The Way We Were (bottom)
From the Romanovs’ last stand to Warren Beatty’s first solo directorial effort: On every Wednesday in January 2010, Turner Classic Movies will present the 20-film festival "Shadows of Russia," a showcase of Hollywood movies portraying Russia (and/or the Soviet Union) and the sociopolitical reverberations of Communism throughout the 20th century.
Among the scheduled films are classics such as Ninotchka, The Manchurian Candidate, and Reds, in addition to lesser-known fare like Counter-Attack, I Was a Communist for the FBI, and The Strawberry Statement. Get ready for some laughs and a few tears — mostly laughs. And mostly of the unintended kind.
I must red-facedly [...]
by Andre Soares | November 4, 2009
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Tags: Barbra Streisand, Classic Movies, Ernst Lubitsch, Greta Garbo, Leo McCarey, Mission to Moscow, My Son John, Ninotchka, Reds, Shadows of Russia, The Way We Were, Turner Classic Movies, Walter Huston, Warren Beatty
Greta Garbo’s NINOTCHKA Screening
Ernst Lubitsch’s delightful Ninotchka, starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas, will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series "Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939” on Monday, July 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The evening will begin at 7 p.m., with the ninth chapter of the 1939 serial Buck Rogers, starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, and the animated short The Autograph Hound, featuring Donald Duck.
In Ninotchka, Garbo (above, with Lubitsch) plays a Russian agent out to retrieve three other agents who have been corrupted by the decadent lights of Paris. While in [...]
by Andre Soares | July 11, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, Ernst Lubitsch, Four-Star Oscar Movies, Greta Garbo, Los Angeles Screenings, Melvyn Douglas, Ninotchka, Oscar 1939, Oscar Movies, Romantic Comedies
Hollywood’s Greatest Year in New York City
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, "Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939," on Saturday, June 20, at 12:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Theater in New York City. Turner Classic Movies host and film historian Robert Osborne will host the event.
"Hollywood’s Greatest Year" will continue through mid-October, showcasing all 10 Best Picture nominees from 1939. Screenings will take place on Monday at 7:30 p.m., [...]
by Andre Soares | June 10, 2009
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GONE WITH THE WIND Screening
"Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939" is the title of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ summer series, which kicks off next Monday, May 18, with a big-screen presentation of Gone with the Wind.
"Hollywood’s Greatest Year" will showcase all of the best picture nominees from 1939, which many consider the best film year in Hollywood history. The 10-film 70th anniversary celebration runs through August 3. (Up to 1943, most years had 10 to 12 films nominated for the best picture Oscar.) All screenings will be held on Monday evenings at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The 1939 best picture Oscar nominees were:
May 18 [...]
by Andre Soares | May 14, 2009
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Tags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Another Thin Man, At the Circus, Babes in Arms, Bachelor Mother, Balalaika, Beau Geste, Buster Crabbe, Butterfly McQueen, Clark Gable, Classic Movies, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, Dark Victory, Daughters Courageous, David O. Selznick, Destry Rides Again, Dodge City, Drums Along the Mohawk, Dust Be My Destiny, Each Dawn I Die, East Side of Heaven, Four Wives, George Cukor, Golden Boy, Gone with the Wind, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Gunga Din, Hattie McDaniel, Hollywood Cavalcade, Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939, Idiot's Delight, In Name Only, Intermezzo, It's a Wonderful World, Jesse James, Juarez, Leslie Howard, Los Angeles Screenings, Love Affair, Made for Each Other, Margaret Mitchell, Midnight, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Naughty But Nice, Never Say Die, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, Olivia de Havilland, On Borrowed Time, Only Angels Have Wings, Rose of Washington Square, Sidney Howard, Son of Frankenstein, Stagecoach, Stanley and Livingstone, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Cat and the Canary, The Great Man Votes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Kid from Kokomo, The Light That Failed, The Little Princess, The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Old Maid, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The Rains Came, The Real Glory, The Roaring Twenties, The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, The Wizard of Oz, The Women, They Made Me a Criminal, Union Pacific, Victor Fleming, Vivien Leigh, When Tomorrow Comes, Wuthering Heights, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, Young Mr. Lincoln, Zaza
