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 (movie 1980) review: Contemplative Woody Allen comedy is one of the most profound films ever made. Charlotte Rampling and Jessica Harper costar.
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Robert Evans with Rosemary’s Baby producer William Castle and lead actress Mia Farrow on the set of Roman Polanski’s classic 1968 horror thriller. “An Academy Salute to Robert Evans” will …
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The Cervantes Center of Arts & Letters will celebrate the birth centennial of Mexican actor-singer superstar Tito Guízar (1908–1999) with a screening of the 1936 cowboy musical (“charro”) Alla en …
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Woyzeck (movie 1979) review: Werner Herzog’s ‘minor’ period psychological drama is superior to most acclaimed Hollywood fare. Klaus Kinski and Eva Mattes star.
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Raging Bull: Robert De Niro as the ‘fat’ Jake LaMotta in what’s probably the most admired American movie of the 1980s. ‘Raging Bull’: Robert De Niro & Martin Scorsese back …
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Persona with Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann. Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 psychological drama Persona and Spike Jonze’s 1999 psycho-bizarro comedy Being John Malkovich will screen as a double feature on Friday, …
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Reds with Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, and Warren Beatty. Warren Beatty’s Reds, the best of the five 1981 Academy Award nominees for best picture, will be screened as the next …
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Fanny and Alexander (movie 1982) review: Ingmar Bergman’s sumptuous big-screen swan song, this period family drama is even more engrossing as a miniseries.
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John Wayne Centennial Screening In celebration of John Wayne’s centennial, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will premiere a new restoration of The High and the Mighty (1954), …
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Romanian actress + suburban Emma Bovary and 1969 French World War II drama + the Great Kazakh hope: Major surprises among US film critics choices.
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Blow-Up (movie 1966) review: In his ‘Swinging London’ masterwork, Michelangelo Antonioni questions the perception of reality. David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave star.
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Julie Andrews, whose film career spans more than four decades, will be the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award’s supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (sorry) recipient at the 2007 SAG Awards ceremony on Jan. …
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Network movie with William Holden and Peter Finch. Image: © A.M.P.A.S. The year when a boxing Cinderella punched his dim-witted way to a Best Picture Academy Award was the same …
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Jane Birkin. Jane Birkin Style: Birkin to direct, write, star in autobiopic According to London’s Sunday Times (May 14), Jane Birkin, “whose career highlights include simulating sex in the song …
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The American Cinematheque to present a 6-week Ingmar Bergman film series with new prints of Cries and Whispers and Autumn Sonata.
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René Cleitman: Among the French film producer’s prestigious credits are the Oscar-nominated Cyrano de Bergerac and Urga.
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Marathon Man (1976) review: Proudly evil Nazi Laurence Olivier Is easily the best thing about John Schlesinger’s outlandish political thriller.
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Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) review: The last of the Romanovs are at the center of William Friedkin’s lavish but conventional historical drama.
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Lenny (1974) review: An excellent Valerie Perrine overshadows an inadequate Dustin Hoffman in Bob Fosse’s underwhelming biopic.
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A Woman Under the Influence (1974) review: John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands’ drama is irreparably marred by its fake ‘rawness.’
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Mulholland Dr. (2001) review: David Lynch’s unsettling Hollywood horror drama stars an exceptional Naomi Watts.
Cinematographer David Watkin, best known for his work on Hugh Hudson’s Chariots of Fire and Sydney Pollack’s Out of Africa, the 1985 Best Picture Academy Award winner starring Meryl Streep …
A Room with a View with Helena Bonham Carter and Julian Sands. The 1986 Best Picture nominee A Room with a View – my personal favorite among the James Ivory-Ismail …
Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Winners’ posters + W.C. Fields Pettifoggery: Academy exhibitions celebrate artworks and former vaudevillian’s career.
Three Colors: Blue (movie 1993) review: Krzysztof Kieslowski’s sublime psychological drama provides Juliette Binoche with one of the best roles of her prestigious career.
Sidney Lumet getting some belated Academy recognition: Next year’s Honorary Oscar will be going to the Dog Day Afternoon director.
The Fixer (1968) review: Alan Bates is badly miscast in John Frankenheimer and Dalton Trumbo’s turgid drama about anti-Jewish hate.
Faces (1968) review: John Cassavetes’ landmark independent marriage drama is a narrative train wreck and a cinematic chore.