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THE DEER HUNTER, LITTLE WOMEN, QUEEN BEE: Packard Campus June 2011 Schedule
Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, George Murphy starred in For Me and My Gal PLANET OF THE APES, Joan Crawford, Film Noir Classics: Packard Campus Thursday, June 2 (7:30 p.m.) KID GALAHAD (Warner Bros, 1937) A mob-connected trainer grooms a bellhop for the boxing ring. Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart and Wayne Morris. Crime drama, romance, Black & White, [...]
THE HURT LOCKER, THE DEER HUNTER, PLATOON, BRAVEHEART: The Oscars & War Movie Controversies
THE HURT LOCKER: Controversy Hasn't Harmed Oscar-Nominated War Movies Julie Christie in Variety, discussing The Deer Hunter (1978, right, with Robert De Niro): "The film presents the Vietcong as subhuman and sadistic, though they effectively resisted both France and the United States, which possessed enormous means of warfare." Jane Fonda, the star of the post-Vietnam-syndrome Coming Home, later took it upon herself to campaign against [...]
Berlin 2010: Play it Again …! Series
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless As per The Hollywood Reporter, the Berlin International Film Festival will mark its 60th anniversary with the retrospective "Play it Again …!," featuring 40 films compiled by British film critic David Thomson from previous Berlin festivals. Among them are Curzio Malaparte's The Forbidden Christ, Alf Sjoberg's Miss Julie, Akira Kurosawa's To Live, Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, Michael Cimino's The Deer [...]