Miriam Seegar, one of the last surviving adult performers featured in silent films, died of “age-related causes” on Sunday, Jan. 2, at her home in Pasadena, northwest of downtown Los…
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Mainstream group choices: New York Film Critics opt for Establishment fare from inspirational king biopic to crowd-pleasing lesbian family comedy-drama.
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Royal Drama tops British Independent Film Awards but director snubbed and missing from respected film magazine Top Ten + Jennifer Lawrence wins Stockholm.
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Ingrid Pitt seducing Madeline Smith in Roy Ward Baker’s The Vampire Lovers (1970). Ingrid Pitt, the star of the Hammer horror flicks The Vampire Lovers (1970) and Countess Dracula (1971),…
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John Mills. John Mills movies: Oscar-winning British actor Unfortunately, nine of the ten John Mills films to be shown on Turner Classic Movies as part of their month-long “Summer Under…
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The Godfather movies: Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 The Godfather. This week at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation’s in Culpeper,…
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Ronald Neame disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure with Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters, and Red Buttons. Ronald Neame, best-known for the 1972 blockbuster The Poseidon Adventure, died on June 16 at a hospital…
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Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller Pygmalion. George Bernard Shaw is tonight’s star on Turner Classic Movies. Major Barbara (1941), directed by Gabriel Pascal, and starring Rex Harrison and Wendy Hiller,…
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Hatter’s Castle with James Mason and Deborah Kerr. A 1942 adaptation of A.J. Cronin’s first novel, Hatter’s Castle, strips away multiple characters and subplots, thus streamlining the film into melodrama.…
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Shane Meadows’ Somers Town movie is a minor but worthwhile portrayal of an unlikely friendship. Tribeca and London Film Critics winner Thomas Turgoose stars.
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British Independent Film Awards: Moon Mystery and brutal Tom Hardy Tops + Andrzej Wajda Passion & Death Tale Is European Film Awards’ FIPRESCI Winner.
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Alfred Hitchcock British films: The Lady Vanishes with Dame May Whitty, Margaret Lockwood, and Michael Redgrave. On Nov. 27–28, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (website) will present the…
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Edward Woodward in Breaker Morant with Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson. Edward Woodward, the star of the 1980s television series The Equalizer and of the big-screen classics The Wicker…
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Angry Young Man Albert Finney in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Image: Bryanston Films Ltd./Photofest. “Four Angry Young Men” is the title of a four-film series to take place on…
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The Tiger’s Tail with Brendan Gleeson and Kim Cattrall. One might initially be surprised to find that John Boorman’s latest film, The Tiger’s Tail, has all but gone straight to…
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Oberon Movies: Mysterious Oscar-nominated actress led intriguing off-screen life rivaling roles she played on the big screen in England and Hollywood.
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How to Make-Up? Oscars’ Artists Show How + Kate Winslet is London Film Critics’ winner/loser while Michael Fassbender is sole Best Actor also-ran.
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Gay Murder and political life that rocked California + awards season juggernaut top WGA Awards plus Academy names Holocaust-themed drama producers.
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Kathleen Byron, best-remembered as the sex-obsessed nun in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Black Narcissus, died on Jan. 18. She was 88 (or 86, depending on the source) and is…
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Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter. Friday, Aug. 22, highlights on Turner Classic Movies (TCM): I’m not all that familiar with Trevor Howard’s career as a star. I’ve…
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Baghdad High focuses on 4 Iraqi high-school students who use their cameras to show the world who they are. And for better or for worse, they’re “us.”
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From the first shot of The Belles of St. Trinian’s – which shows the sign of the St. Trinian’s School for Young Ladies being fired at by what sounds like…
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Outlandish situations can be found everywhere in The Story of Esther Costello, starring a stylish Joan Crawford. Rossano Brazzi costars.
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Joan Crawford shows in Berserk that she could still command the action, seduce hunks half her age and look fabulous while parading around in fishnet leggings.
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Those looking for hints for the upcoming Academy Awards will be disappointed with the results of the pompous-sounding Orange British Academy of Film & Television Arts. (But check out images…
Vivien Leigh. Vivien Leigh, one of the greatest performers of the 20th century, is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month in September. That’s the good news. The bad news:…
Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates in Silvio Narizzano’s Georgy Girl Lynn Redgrave died Sunday, May 2, ’10, at her home in Connecticut. She had been fighting breast cancer for seven years.…
Christmas Cheer: Andy Hardy and rediscovering Sherlock Holmes actor who made his mark as sleuth in 5 films + Woody Allen and Katharine Hepburn.
A Cottage on Dartmoor / Escape from Dartmoor with Uno Henning. Very little in a career overview of filmmaker Anthony Asquith prepares a viewer for the brilliant thriller A Cottage…
Joseph Losey 1963 classic The Servant with Dirk Bogarde and James Fox. Sarah Miles also stars. “Among the greatest things that happened to British cinema were the arrival on our…
In The Guardian, Simon Callow reviews Ever Dirk: The Bogarde Letters, a collection of letters written by Dirk Bogarde and edited by John Coldstream, former books editor at the Daily…
Robert Donat in The Magic Box: All-star biopic. London’s BFI Southbank has been hosting an homage to Robert Donat, who died fifty years ago (on June 9, 1958) of a chronic…