Carol Lynley: In her heyday, the Blue Denim, Bunny Lake Is Missing, and The Poseidon Adventure actress was often cast as dreamy girl-next-door types willing and able to tear down the walls of social conventions. In all, throughout her 45-year big-screen career, Carol Lynley was…
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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 considered a handsome, matinee idol type. Unlike Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, or Spencer Tracy,…
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Bibi Andersson in The Seventh Seal. Remembering international arthouse cinema icon Bibi Andersson: Frequent Ingmar Bergman actress & four-time ‘Swedish Oscar’ winner International arthouse cinema icon Bibi Andersson, a blonde beauty best known for her 14 collaborations with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman – 11 big-screen features…
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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 a two-week run at New York City’s Film Forum from Friday, Oct. 25, through Thursday,…
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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 home in Kensington, London. According to reports, Winner had been suffering from (an unspecified) liver…
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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 Huston’s unsparing Fat City, Susan Tyrrell delivers a harrowing portrayal of an alcoholic who has…
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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 directed by Bergman, died of complications from Parkinson’s Disease on Feb. 25 in Stockholm. Josephson…
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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, and Ann Sothern – in Lindsay Anderson’s The Whales of August total 191 years. And…
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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 Actress statuette for the 2012 Academy Awards – well, barring a Glenn Close upset –…
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Marlon Brando Jor-El salary: Superman wages reportedly broke record. Marlon Brando Jor-El salary: ‘Record-Breaking’ ‘Superman’ wages Long before Russell Crowe made his first film, Marlon Brando pocketed a reported $3.7 million for two weeks of work on the Richard Donner-directed 1978 version of Superman. Brando’s…
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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 Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, died earlier today at a British hospital. Karlin was 85.…
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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 A Clockwork Orange and The Shining, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío’s Oscar-nominated Strawberry…
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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 They?, died at age 70 on April 19 in Montreal. Less well known is that…
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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 Men (1976), Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Caleb Deschanel…
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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 Sept. 29 in the Los Angeles suburb of Tarzana, may not be a household name.…
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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 of Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” series. Along with better-known Christie vehicles such…