‘Play Misty for Me’: Rabid fan Jessica Walter makes life terribly difficult for disc jockey Clint Eastwood. Clint Eastwood + ‘Harry Potter’ = ‘The Decline of Western Civilization’? The Packard…
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Pioneering woman director Lois Weber movie ‘Shoes,’ with Mary MacLaren. Pioneering woman director Lois Weber socially conscious drama ‘Shoes’ screening In February 2015, National Film Registry titles will be showcased…
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Godzilla 1954 a.k.a. Gojira, with Takashi Shimura and Momoko Kôchi. Somewhat surprisingly, Ishirô Honda’s monster movie tackles the sociocultural upheavals in post-World War II Japan, as the young daughter (Kôchi)…
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Anna Magnani in Rome, Open City, known in the U.S. as Open City. ‘Rome, Open City’ returns: 4K digital restoration of Roberto Rossellini masterpiece at London’s BFI Southbank A restored…
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Judgment at Nuremberg with Maximilian Schell. Stanley Kramer’s most effective “message movie,” the 1961 courtroom/political drama Judgment at Nuremberg is a fictionalized restaging of the post-World War II Judges’ Trial…
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Mary Poppins with Julie Andrews as the flying-umbrella-carrying, brat-rearing title character. As the Walt Disney Studios’ Saving Mr. Banks adds about 2,000 North American theaters, the U.S. Library of Congress…
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Clara Bow, Mantrap: The Silent Era’s “It Girl.” What do Andrei Tarkovsky, Edward G. Robinson, Clara Bow, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Audrey Hepburn have in common? Easy. They’ll all be…
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Porgy and Bess film version with Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge: one of this year’s additions to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. Samuel Goldwyn’s final production, the Otto…
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Rare movies: Director Allan Dwan, actor George O’Brien, cinematographer George Webber on the set of East Side West Side Are you a movie lover in Los Angeles, unable to travel…
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller with Warren Beatty and Julie Christie: Robert Altman’s anti-Western (a.k.a. “revisionist Western”) is one of 25 movies added to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry…
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The Cheat with Sessue Hayakawa and Fannie Ward. Cecil B. DeMille’s 1915 sex & miscegenation melodrama about a white woman (Fannie Ward) who becomes enslaved to a cruel, sensual, mysterious,…
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Johnny Guitar with Joan Crawford. One of the December 2008 additions to the U.S. Library of Congress’ National Film Registry is Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar. The 1954 psychological Western stars…
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Shirley Temple, and Oscar movies: Library of Congress’ March 2014 screenings (image: Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in ‘Capote’) Tributes to the recently deceased Shirley Temple…
The Negro Soldier poster. Produced by Frank Capra and directed by Stuart Heisler, the 1944 documentary feature The Negro Soldier was one of numerous propaganda films commissioned by the United…
Paul Leni’s The Man Who Laughs, starring Conrad Veidt and Mary Philbin. Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Alida Valli, Pierre Brasseur, Angela Lansbury, Conrad Veidt, Sean Connery, John Wayne, Gene Wilder,…