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:…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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.…
Shane Meadows’ Somers Town movie is a minor but worthwhile portrayal of an unlikely friendship. Tribeca and London Film Critics winner Thomas Turgoose stars.
Moon movie mystery with Sam Rockwell. This year’s British Independent Film Awards Best Picture winner, Duncan Jones’ Moon has elements in common with, among other sci-fi/mystery thrillers, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Oberon ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ mystery: Tasmanian- or Indian-born Hollywood and British cinema star? ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ for movie fans: Merle Oberon day on TCM Ravishing beauty Merle Oberon,…
“How to make-up” at the movies? Make-up artist Conor O’Sullivan shows how it was done in Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster The Dark Knight. John Caglione Jr. was Heath Ledger’s make-up artist;…
Gay murder – and political life – that rocked California: Milk. The WGA Awards’ Best Original Screenplay pick was Milk, Dustin Lance Black’s narrative about openly gay San Francisco Board…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Berserk movie with Joan Crawford, Diana Dors, and Ty Hardin. A delightfully daffy freak show on the surface, underneath Berserk could play as a 1940s Woman’s Picture: Hard-as-nails female circus…
Jessica Alba: Science and technology Awards. Actress Jessica Alba hosted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2008 Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards on Feb. 9 in Beverly Hills.…
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…
Atonement with Vanessa Redgrave. Having made her big-screen debut in the late 1950s (Behind the Mask) and a steady film actress since the mid-1960s (Blow-Up, Camelot), Vanessa Redgrave was bypassed…
Control with Sam Riley as Joy Division vocalist Ian Curtis. What are the BAFTA Awards? Don’t be fooled by the inclusion of Anton Corbijn’s low-budget Ian Curtis biopic Control in…
Joy Division movie tops British Independent Film Awards Dutch photographer-turned-filmmaker Anton Corbijn’s Control, a black-and-white drama about troubled Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, won five trophies – including best film,…
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: Love Finds Andy Hardy with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. George B. Seitz’s Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938) reunited Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry (1937) co-stars Mickey Rooney and Judy…
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…
The Story of Esther Costello with Joan Crawford and Rossano Brazzi. Crawford plays an Anne Sullivan-like character in this 1957 melodrama, while Heather Sears is a cross between Hellen Keller…
Sex education film The Irresponsibles. The British Film Institute’s “The Joy of Sex Education” – to be presented at London’s bfi Southbank – consists of a series of British-made sex…