The Maltese Falcon Articles

Lawrence Kasdan, whose neo-noir Body Heat starring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner has become a 1980s classic, introduced a screening of John Huston directorial debut, The Maltese Falcon, starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, and Sydney Greenstreet, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills on Monday, May 10, 2010. Shown as part of the Academy’s "Oscar Noir," The Maltese Falcon was [...]

Good news for LA-based film noirs fans: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will kick off a summer screening series, "Oscar Noir: 1940s Writing Nominees from Hollywood’s Dark Side," on Monday, May 10, with a big-screen presentation of John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon, starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, and Sydney Greenstreet. The 15-film series, which will run through August 30, will showcase 1940s [...]

Basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will join Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne to present four of his favorite films in TCM’s "Guest Programmer" series on Monday, March 22. Most "Guest Programmer" evenings are devoted to the best-known old classics, and Abdul-Jabbar (and Raquel Welch’s on April 1) will be no exception. Abdul-Jabbar’s tough-guy flicks consist of two of Humphrey Bogart’s and two of John Wayne’s [...]

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