Judy Garland in THE WIZARD OF OZ Screening
Starring Judy Garland and directed by Victor Fleming, the 1939 Best Picture nominee The Wizard of Oz will be screened, digitally from a new 4K restoration, as the final feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939” on Monday, August 3, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Jerry Maren, who portrayed one of the Lollipop Guild members in Munchkinland, will be present for a short Q&A before the film.
The evening will begin at 6:45 p.m., and will include videotaped interviews with Margaret Hamilton and Ray Bolger from a 1983 Academy event; the [...]
by Andre Soares | July 29, 2009
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Tags: Billie Burke, Classic Movies, Gay Interest, Judy Garland, Los Angeles Screenings, Oscar 1939, Oscar Movies, Shirley Temple, Three-Star Oscar Movies, Victor Fleming
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
Great Directors Series on Turner Classic Movies
Jeanne Moreau, Henri Serre, Oskar Werner in François Truffaut’s Jules et Jim
In June, Turner Classic Movies‘ month-long series "Great Directors" will be celebrating the efforts of 52 films directors, from past and present, from Hollywood and overseas (though, as to be expected, mostly Hollywood).
Among TCM’s "greats" are, inevitably, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Steven Spielberg, and John Ford, but also Jacques Tourneur, Mervyn LeRoy, and Budd Boetticher.
Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Carol Reed, and Ingmar Bergman are four of the non-Hollywood filmmakers who have been included in the series.
Each weekday of the "Great Directors" series will feature two directors — one during the day; the other at night. The daytime lineup includes Victor Fleming (June [...]
by Andre Soares | April 21, 2009
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Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Budd Boeticher, Cecil B. DeMille, Classic Movies, David Lean, Federico Fellini, Frank Capra, Fritz Lang, George Cukor, Great Directors, Howard Hawks, Jacques Tourneur, John Ford, Leo McCarey, Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz, Orson Welles, Otto Preminger, Steven Spielberg, Victor Fleming, Vincente Minnelli, William Wyler, Woody Allen
GONE WITH THE WIND: A 70th Anniversary Celebration
Among the special events at the 2009 Atlanta Film Festival, which runs April 16-25, is "Gone With the Wind: A 70th Anniversary Celebration," with the presence of Turner Classic Movie’s host and film historian Robert Osborne, Baltimore Sun critic Michael Sragow, and author/critic Molly Haskell.
On Saturday, April 18, at 8:00 pm, "The Gone With the Wind Legacy" will feature a discussion with Osborne, Sragow and Haskell at the Margaret Mitchell House’s Literary Center. All three participants will be showcasing their new books: 80 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards by Osborne, Victor Fleming, a Biography by Sragow, and Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited [...]
by Deborah Arthur | April 3, 2009
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Tags: Atlanta Film Festival, Civil War, Clark Gable, Classic Movies, David O. Selznick, Film Festivals, Gone with the Wind, Historical Movies, Leslie Howard, Margaret Mitchell, Michael Sragow, Molly Haskell, Olivia de Havilland, Robert Osborne, Romantic Movies, Victor Fleming, Vivien Leigh
Best Films – 1920
Though no masterpiece, The Mollycoddle is a surprisingly enjoyable romp starring Douglas Fairbanks as an effete, upper-class nonentity who discovers both his manhood and his red-white-and-blue Americanness before the final fadeout. His leading lady is a minor actress named Ruth Renick, but one barely notices her. The director is Victor Fleming, best known for Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz, but The Mollycoddle is truly all Fairbanks’.
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The Last of the Mohicans
d: Maurice Tourneur, Clarence Brown; scr: Robert Dillon
The Mollycoddle
d: Victor Fleming; scr: Douglas Fairbanks, Thomas J. Geraghty
What Happened to Rosa?
d: Victor Schertzinger; scr: Gerald C. Duffy
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Conrad in Quest of His Youth
d: William C. de Mille; scr: Olga Printzlau
Outside the Law
d: Tod Browning; scr: Lucien Hubbard; [...]
by Andre Soares | April 2, 2009
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Tags: Bebe Daniels, Best Films, Clarence Brown, Classic Movies, Conrad in Quest of His Youth, Douglas Fairbanks, George Archainbaud, Lon Chaney, Mabel Normand, Maurice Tourneur, Richard Barthelmess, Silent Films, The Last of the Mohicans, The Mollycoddle, The Wonderful Chance, Thomas Meighan, Victor Fleming, Victor Schertzinger, What Happened to Rosa?
