Melvyn Douglas. Melvyn Douglas: From suave leading man to Hollywood’s top female stars to first-rate dramatic actor Unlike Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, or Gary Cooper, Melvyn Douglas couldn’t exactly be…
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The Godfather actor Abe Vigoda Dead 3 decades After obituary that made Barney Miller performers a pop celebrity in the U.S.
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Dean Jones Actor Dead: From Disney Movies The Love Bug and That Darn Cat to Christian Film Born Again and radical Evangelical proselytizing.
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Ann-Margret Movies: From Elvis Presley leading lady to Oscar nominations for provocative Tommy and Carnal Knowledge.
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Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 with Isabelle Adjani and Klaus Kinski. ‘Nosferatu the Vampyre’ 1979: Werner Herzog German-language version screening Werner Herzog’s stylish 1979 horror drama Nosferatu the Vampyre will have…
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Un Flic (1972) movie review: Alain Delon and Catherine Deneuve are perfectly cast in this great Jean-Pierre Melville neo-noir. Richard Crenna costars.
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Michael Winner: Death Wish director. ‘Death Wish’ director Michael Winner has died Michael Winner, best remembered for directing the Charles Bronson action hit Death Wish, died earlier today at his…
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Erland Josephson, The Sacrifice: Ingmar Bergman actor also collaborated with Andrei Tarkovsky. Erland Josephson, who was featured in more than a dozen Ingmar Bergman movies in addition to several plays…
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Who is The Iron Lady? Ask Meryl Streep, who plays Margaret Thatcher in the Phyllida Lloyd-directed biopic. Oscar veteran Meryl Streep may have her name already engraved on the Best…
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Gilbert Cates, best known as the man behind a record 14 Academy Awards ceremonies, died at age 77 on Sept. 31 in the Los Angeles of Westwood. Cates reportedly had…
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Owen Wilson in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris. June 19 update: Following the addition of 94 theaters, Woody Allen’s 2011 effort Midnight in Paris was down only 10 percent from…
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Nude Rooney Mara, Robert Pattinson with Oscar pedigree cast and Sacha Baron Cohen channeling Chaplin made available online.
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Miriam Karlin in A Clockwork Orange: Deadly giant phallus victim in 1971 classic. Miriam Karlin, best known outside the United Kingdom as the woman killed by a giant phallus in…
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Cuban movie posters: Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. Here’s something unusual: hand-silkscreened Cuban posters for Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (right), Costa-Gavras’ Z, Ernesto Daranas Serrano’s Fallen Gods, Stanley Kubrick’s…
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Michael Sarrazin and Jacqueline Bisset in The Sweet Ride. Michael Sarrazin, best known for his role as Jane Fonda’s marathon-dancing partner in Sydney Pollack’s 1969 drama They Shoot Horses, Don’t…
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Diane Keaton and Woody Allen in Manhattan: Gordon Willis cinematographer. Gordon Willis for Klute (1971), The Godfather (1972), The Paper Chase (1973), The Godfather: Part II (1974), All the President’s…
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The Whales of August with Lillian Gish, Bette Davis, Vincent Price, and Ann Sothern. According to my math, the careers of the three leading ladies – Lillian Gish, Bette Davis,…
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Joe Mantell in Marty, with Ernest Borgnine. Low-budget Delbert Mann comedy-drama was the Best Picture Oscar and Palme d’Or winner of 1955. Joe Mantell, who died at age 94 on…
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Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? review: Oscar nominee Barbara Harris steals Dustin Hoffman film.
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Mia Farrow in Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby: Cinematography by William A. Fraker. William A. Fraker, the Academy Award-nominated cinematographer of Richard Brooks’ Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Warren Beatty and…
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Vanessa Redgrave and Son Carlo Gabriel Nero, Niece Jemma Redgrave plus former midddle-aged enfant terrible Ken Russell, Caleb Deschanel.
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Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude (top); Julie Christie and Warren Beatty in Shampoo (bottom). Cameron Crowe and Peter Bart will host a panel discussion with Haskell…
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Modern Times: Charles Chaplin meets René Clair. The screening of a digitally restored 35mm print of Charles Chaplin’s Modern Times (1936) and a look at rare behind-the-scenes photographs revealing the…
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Jane Fonda: Warren Beatty gay by association? Warren Beatty: AFI Life Achievement Award with Dyan Cannon & Diane Keaton + Jane Fonda Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Dyan Cannon, and Elaine…
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Stardust Memories (1980) movie review: Contemplative Woody Allen comedy is one of the most profound films ever made. Charlotte Rampling costars.
Robert Redford Movies: Two of the Biggest Blockbusters Ever and War Hero or Serial Killer? The future Hollywood icon in an early subversive war movie.
Oscar-nominated actress Susan Tyrrell remembered Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominee Susan Tyrrell – for the 1972 drama Fat City – died at age 67 on June 17. In John…
Festival of Legends: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Peter Yarrow in Murray Lerner Oscar-Nominated Folk Music Documentary.
Bad Education (2004) movie review: Brazenly subversive Pedro Almodóvar (gay) ‘film noir’ is one of the most daring exemplars of the genre.
Per Oscarsson in Henning Carlsen’s Hunger. The year 2011 begins with a likely tragedy for the movie world: According to reports, a Friday, Dec. 31, house fire may have killed…
Julie Christie, easily one of the most compelling performers of the last half-century and an ardent political activist for liberal causes, has her day on Monday, Aug. 2, as part…
William Castle and the Rosemary’s Baby ‘curse.’ William Castle was a director of B movie thrillers such as those in two popular franchises of the 1940s starring faded stars of…
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