Álex de la Iglesia vs. Anti-Piracy Sinde Law: Polemical Goya Awards with political speeches, party crasher and homage to Maria Schneider.
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Brief Encounter with Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard. Brief Encounter one-line synopsis: A married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a housewife (Celia Johnson) have an adulterous (and platonic) affair. The Pros:…
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Susannah York in Robert Altman’s Images. Susannah York, one of the best (and best-looking) performers of the 1960s and 1970s, died today. York’s son, Orlando Wells (the Duke of Kent…
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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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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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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:…
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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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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.…
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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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Christmas Cheer: Andy Hardy and rediscovering Sherlock Holmes actor who made his mark as sleuth in 5 films + Woody Allen and Katharine Hepburn.
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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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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…
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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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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…
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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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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…
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Baghdad High (movie 2007) review: Documentary focuses on four Iraqi high-school students who use their cameras to show the world who they are.
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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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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…
Mainstream group choices: New York Film Critics opt for Establishment fare from inspirational king biopic to crowd-pleasing lesbian family comedy-drama.
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…
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,…
British Independent Film Awards: Moon Mystery and brutal Tom Hardy Tops + Andrzej Wajda Passion & Death Tale Is European Film Awards’ FIPRESCI Winner.
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…
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.
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…