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
MOONSTRUCK Screening with Olympia Dukakis
Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis and TCM host Robert Osborne will take part in an onstage discussion following a screening of Moonstruck (1987) on Monday, December 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy Theater in New York City. The screening is part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ "Monday Nights with Oscar" series.
Directed by Norman Jewison from a screenplay by John Patrick Shanley, the fluffy Moonstruck follows the unlikely blossoming of romance between, of all people, Cher and Nicolas Cage.
Vincent Gardenia, Danny Aiello, John Mahoney, and Feodor Chaliapin Jr. round out the cast of this romantic comedy that isn’t all that romantic or all that funny.
Moonstruck was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture (Patrick [...]
by Andre Soares | December 15, 2007
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Tags: Cher, John Patrick Shanley, Moonstruck, New York Screenings, Nicolas Cage, Norman Jewison, Olympia Dukakis, Oscar 1987, Oscar Movies, Romantic Comedies
