Anna Magnani in Bellissima. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (website) began a mini Anna Magnani retrospective, Mamma Roma: The Films of Anna Magnani, on Friday, Nov. 3. Twelve…
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Jane Wyatt: Star Trek, Father Knows Best, and Lost Horizon actress. Jane Wyatt: ‘Star Trek’ & ‘Father Knows Best’ + ‘Lost Horizon’ actress dead at 96 Actress Jane Wyatt, best…
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Luchino Visconti’s White Nights has the look – but not the feel – of a Hollywood production. Great cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell and Jean Marais.
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Frank Sinatra in ‘The Man with the Golden Arm’: Groundbreaking drug addiction drama. Although hardly one of Otto Preminger’s better films, The Man with the Golden Arm is worth a…
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Is the iconic 1960 nouvelle vague movie Breathless vastly overrated? Jean-Paul Belmondo + Jean Seberg star in Jean-Luc Godard’s influential noir homage.
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Film Forum, the New York City institution that about a year ago presented the Paramount Before the Code film series, will be presenting Pre-Code movies from Fox – Fox Before…
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Early talkies on TCM: Rudy Vallee in The Vagabond Lover + Tanned Legs & Spring Is Here In the U.S., Turner Classic Movies will be showing three early talkies: The…
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Mexican wrestler vs. invading Martians: Santo el Enmascarado de Plata vs la invasión de los marcianos. Mexican Wrestler Santo vs. the Martians + Bhutanese fantasy-adventure & Helen Mirren: Rio Film…
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In his 1966 ‘Swinging London’ masterwork Blow-Up, Michelangelo Antonioni questions the perception of reality. David Hemmings + Vanessa Redgrave star.
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One of the highlights of this year’s San Sebastian International Film Festival (website) is a mouth-wateringly thorough Ernst Lubitsch Retrospective. (Image: Angel, with Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, and Melvyn Douglas.)…
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Novelist and playwright Joseph Hayes, best known for his stage and film adaptations of his 1954 suspense novel The Desperate Hours, died this past Sept. 11 at a nursing home…
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Malcolm Arnold, reportedly the first British composer to win an Academy Award, died Saturday, Sept. 23, at a hospital in Norfolk county, eastern England, after suffering from a chest infection.…
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Pola Negri in Madame Dubarry / Passion with Emil Jannings. New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (website) is currently presenting “Pola Negri: Life Is a Dream,” a week-long retrospective on…
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Krzysztof Kieslowski’s sublime 1993 psychological drama Three Colors: Blue provides Juliette Binoche with one of the best roles of her career.
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Press Release: Beverly Hills, CA – The evolution of Mexican cinema, the important role of Mexican filmmakers working in Hollywood and the influence of international filmmakers working in Mexico all…
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Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 action classic Seven Samurai is one of those rare films that get better and better with each new viewing. Toshiro Mifune stars.
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If nothing else, the silly (and unfortunately mistitled) One Hysterical Night – Reginald Denny’s first all-talking vehicle – serves as a good explanation as to why Denny, Universal’s top male…
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Male power in early 20th century Made in 1919, the year before women gained the right to vote in the United States, the ultimately disappointing (and sleep-inducing) Phil-for-Short tells the…
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Finis Terrae. Finis terrae (1929): Jean Epstein classic at London’s Barbican Jean Epstein, best known for his 1928 Gothic silent classic The Fall of the House of Usher, was also…
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The Barker with Dorothy Mackaill and Milton Sills. Among the good & rarities screened at the UCLA Film and Television Archive Festival of Preservation (website) was a restored print of…
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Harold Lloyd Rare Pictures: Academy Exhibition Showcases Silent Era ‘comic genius’ in rarely seen photos in front of and behind camera.
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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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British cinematographer, director, and film and television producer Monty Berman, whose television series The Saint became an international hit, died in London last June 14. His obit was reported in…
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Chinatown: John Huston suggests a good homeopathic remedy to Jack Nicholson, who developed a boil on his nose after drinking too much of L.A.’s tap water. Image: © A.M.P.A.S. On…
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Counterfeit ‘Going My Way’ 1944 Oscar Says Academy Press Release: Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has examined the Oscar® statuette that was…
Otto Preminger film noir Laura with Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “A Centennial Tribute to Otto Preminger” will be hosted by filmmaker…
The L-Shaped Room & Prime Suspect actor Tom Bell has died British actor Tom Bell died on Oct. 4 after a short illness. Perhaps best remembered for playing opposite Helen…
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.…
Composer Franz Waxman tribute Press Release: Beverly Hills, CA – In celebration of Oscar®-winning composer Franz Waxman’s centennial, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen the 1941 films…
Based on my understanding of Joseph Conrad’s 1900 novel Lord Jim, the 1925 film version faithfully follows the book’s storyline without capturing its essence. For if Lord Jim the novel…
Millionaire match made in heaven – or rather, New York City. Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, and Lauren Bacall try to calculate the number of diamonds, cookies, and hunky young men…
“I hope you enjoyed your trip back to a more innocent time,” said presenter Randy Haberkamp to a packed house last night following the screening of the 1928 Chicago at…