Ruth Hussey. Ruth Hussey: 1940s MGM actress remembered Ruth Hussey, a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominee for George Cukor’s The Philadelphia Story, died at age 93 on April 19…
Classic Movies
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Margaretta Scott. Margaretta Scott: Things to Come & All Creatures Great and Small actress remembered Margaretta Scott, best remembered for playing the eccentric widow Mrs. Pumphrey in the BBC television…
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Errol Flynn DVD box set: The Signature Collection features 5 classic swashbucklers and Westerns in addition to a new Turner Classic Movies documentary.
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Warner’s Doris Day DVD Collection box set include several of the bright star’s biggest hits – comedies and musicals – and even one of her rare (big-budget) flops.
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What are the Academy Awards? One famous Oscar winner doesn’t seem to hold them in high regard, while a film publication lists the Ten Very Worst Best Pictures ever.
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Early 1960s Top 10 box office star Sandra Dee personified American cinema’s idealized adolescence + young womanhood – but with an undercurrent of disaffection.
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Pretty Western actress had promising Hollywood career derailed after a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical flop, but was kept busy opposite several cowboy stars.
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Sidney Lumet movies getting some belated Academy recognition: The Honorary Oscar will go to the Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon director.
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French film producer René Cleitman’s prestigious credits include Cyrano de Bergerac and several Prix César and Oscar-nominated titles.
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Marathon Man (movie 1976) review: As a proudly evil Nazi, Laurence Olivier Is by far the best thing about John Schlesinger’s confusing and absurd political thriller. Dustin Hoffman stars.
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Nicholas and Alexandra (movie 1971) review: The last of the Romanovs are at the center of Franklin J. Schaffner’s lavish but conventional Oscar-nominated historical drama.
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The Devil Strikes at Night (movie 1957) review: Robert Siodmak’s intriguing political drama asks whether serial killers are any less of a danger than socially sanctioned mass murderers.
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The Fixer (movie 1968) review: Alan Bates is badly miscast in John Frankenheimer and Dalton Trumbo’s drama about anti-Jewish hate, which is ruined by its lack of subtlety.
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A Hatful of Rain (movie 1957) review: Eva Marie Saint is the one standout in Fred Zinnemann’s early drug addiction drama seriously impaired by its three male leads and overall staginess.
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Diane English has penned and will direct The Women remake, as the 1939 all-female classic comedy is finally getting a 21st-century facelift. Meg Ryan and Annette Bening are slated to star.
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Ed Wood’s long-thought (partially) lost film Necromania has been rediscovered. This groundbreaking sexually explicit supernatural tale stars Ric Lutze and Rene Bond.
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The highlight of Paramount Home Entertainment’s four new John Wayne DVDs is the long-unseen multiple Oscar-nominated ‘disaster’ blockbuster The High and the Mighty.
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A Woman Under the Influence (movie 1974) review: John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands’ psychological drama is irreparably marred by its own fake ‘rawness.’
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Mulholland Dr. (movie 2001) review: Naomi Watts delivers an exceptional performance – or rather, two – in David Lynch’s unsettling Hollywood horror drama. Laura Harring costars.
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Faces (movie 1968) review: John Cassavetes’ landmark and widely admired independent drama is a narrative trainwreck and a long-winded cinematic chore. John Marley stars.
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Four news DVDs focus on Oscar-winning director George Stevens: A tribute to British colonialism; an immigration family drama; and two documentaries, one of which features rare WWII color footage.
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In Old Arizona (movie 1928) review: Starring Oscar winner Warner Baxter, Fox’s Pre-Code Western is of interest as the first ‘outdoor’ talkie and for its brazenly risqué sensibility.
Movie festival news from around the world cover big-screen events from New York’s Tribeca to the century’s ‘biggest’ French cinema retrospective in Beijing.
A restored print of Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 Soviet masterpiece Battleship Potemkin will be screened at next year’s Berlin Film Festival.
Calling Hedy Lamarr (movie 2004) review: Georg Misch’s low-key documentary offers a glimpse into the chatty phone habits of one of Hollywood’s most glamorous stars.
Lenny (movie 1974) review: A miscast and painfully unfunny Dustin Hoffman is overshadowed by a sensational Valerie Perrine in Bob Fosse’s unsatisfying Lenny Bruce biopic.
William A. Wellman’s experimental Western Track of the Cat is one of five new DVDs of long-unseen movies with a little-known John Wayne connection. Robert Mitchum stars.
What are the best British films of all time? Starring Michael Caine, the violent 1971 thriller Get Carter is critics’ surprise #1 choice, while women-centered titles are completely absent.
Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro: Biography of the tragic gay actor and MGM star (Ben-Hur) who was both devoutly Catholic and homosexual.