Marlon Brando, Marlene Dietrich, Sophia Loren Home Movies
Alfred Hitchcock, wife Alma Reville, daughter Patricia Hitchcock, and dog at home ca. 1941
Paulette Goddard, Betty Grable, Edward G. Robinson, Ginger Rogers, and Natalie Wood’s rarely seen home movies will be screened at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ presentation of “Hollywood Home Movies II: Treasures from the Academy Film Archive” on Saturday, October 17, at 7 p.m. at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. This event is sold out, but standby tickets may become available.
The Academy Film Archive houses a wide variety of amateur movies — whether featuring the stars’ families and friends, or behind-the-scenes activities on their sets. "Hollywood Home Movies II" will feature a number of excerpts, [...]
by Andre Soares | October 14, 2009
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Tags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Ginger Rogers, Hollywood Home Movies II, Los Angeles Screenings, Marlene Dietrich, Marlon Brando, Natalie Wood, Paulette Goddard, Sophia Loren
Venice Film Festival 2004
This past Wednesday, Sept. 1, the 61st edition of the Venice Film Festival kicked off with a gala screening of Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal, a box-office and critical disappointment in the United States, where it opened more than two months ago.
At the festival’s press screening, the film received an equally unenthusiastic reception — but none of that matters to festival organizers, who surely didn’t pick Spielberg’s latest production because of its cinematic qualities. What matters is that both Spielberg and The Terminal’s star, Tom Hanks, were on hand for the gala evening — a surefire way to guarantee worldwide coverage for the festival.
"I wanted a festival of quality films for mass audiences," says festival director Marco Muller. "But [...]
by Andre Soares | September 4, 2004
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Tags: Film Festivals, Javier Bardem, Sophia Loren, Steven Spielberg, The Sea Inside, The Terminal, Tom Hanks, Venice Film Festival, Vera Drake
