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 (movie 1972) review: Alain Delon and Catherine Deneuve deliver first-rate performances in this excellent 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. With the acclaimed comedy fantasy Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen has one of his biggest ever domestic hits Starring Owen Wilson, Rachel…
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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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Riot movie with Jim Brown and Gene Hackman. “A protest, a riot, I don’t care what you call it,” says Red (Gene Hackman), the mastermind of an audacious plan to…
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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…
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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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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…
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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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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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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…
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 (movie 2004) review: Brazenly subversive Pedro Almodóvar (gay) ‘film noir’ is one of the most daring exemplars of the genre. Gael García Bernal and Fele Martínez star.
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…
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? review: Oscar nominee Barbara Harris steals Dustin Hoffman film.
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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