Danièle Delorme: Pioneering woman director Jacqueline Audry’s muse would eventually become a pioneering female movie producer. Remembering pioneering woman director’s muse and pioneering woman producer Danièle Delorme Danièle Delorme, who died on Oct. 17, ’15, at the age of 89 in Paris, is best remembered…
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West End stage actress Constance Cummings also appeared on Broadway and in Hollywood and British movies. West End theater star: Constance Cummings in ‘Saint Joan,’ Shakespeare (See previous post: “Constance Cummings: From Harold Lloyd to Eugene O’Neill.”) In the mid-1930s, Constance Cummings landed the title…
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Hell’s Kitchen: Soul stew image likely from the 1922 Benjamin Christensen horror classic ‘Häxan / Witchcraft Through the Ages.’ Day of the Dead post: Cinema’s Top Five Scariest Living Dead We should all be eternally grateful to the pagans, who had the foresight to come…
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Multicultural movies: Best Foreign Language Film Oscar entries include Irish-Cuban tale Viva, with Héctor Medina. Multicultural movies & the Oscars Nearly ten years ago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences changed a key rule regarding entries for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar;*…
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Robert Pattinson: Actor to play E.T. astronaut. Robert Pattinson to star for Claire Denis If all goes as planned, Robert Pattinson will get to star in French screenwriter-director Claire Denis’ recently announced – and as yet untitled – English-language sci-fier, penned by Denis and White…
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Euthanasia drama The Sea Inside with Javier Bardem. In Alejandro Amenábar’s euthanasia drama, Javier Bardem plays a tetraplegic Spaniard fighting for the right to end his life in a country where – like just about everywhere else –assisted suicide is legally akin to murder. One…
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‘The Beginning or the End’ 1947 with Robert Walker and Tom Drake. Hiroshima bombing 70th anniversary: Six movies dealing with the A-bomb terror Seventy years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. Ultimately, anywhere between…
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Michael Caine young: Long and prestigious career – as long as one chooses to ignore dozens of titles like The Island, Jaws: The Revenge, and Austin Powers in Goldmember. Michael Caine movies: From Irwin Allen bombs to Woody Allen classic It’s hard to believe that…
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Omar Sharif in Doctor Zhivago. Egyptian actor Omar Sharif Below is a brief career recap of Egyptian film star Omar Sharif, who died on July 10 and whose credits include the David Lean-directed classics Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago. A future post will offer…
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Glenda Jackson: Actress and former Labour MP. Two-time Oscar winner and former Labour MP Glenda Jackson returns to acting Two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson set aside her acting career after becoming a Labour Party MP in 1992. Four years ago, Jackson, who…
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Jean-Luc Godard in his youthful days: Greek debt crisis solution? Jean-Luc Godard solution for the Greek debt crisis: ‘Therefore’ copyright payments A few years ago, Nouvelle Vague filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, while plugging his Film Socialisme, chipped in with a surefire solution for the seemingly endless…
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Laura Antonelli: Malizia sex symbol led a troubled, difficult life. Laura Antonelli: ‘Malizia’ sex symbol who led troubled life found dead Laura Antonelli, for a brief while an international star thanks to scandalous sex-themed movies such as Malizia and The Divine Nymph, and who later…
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Father of the Bride with Steve Martin and Kimberly Williams: Father’s Day Movies. Top Five Father’s Day Movies? From giant Gregory Peck to tyrant John Gielgud What would be the Top Five Father’s Day movies ever made? Well, there have been countless films about fathers…
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African-American film ‘Bert Williams: Lime Kiln Club Field Day’ with Williams (in blackface) and Odessa Warren Grey: Early 20th century rarity.* Rare, early 20th-century African-American film among San Francisco Silent Film Festival highlights Directed by Edwin Middleton and T. Hayes Hunter, the Biograph Company’s Lime…
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Yesterday movie: South African AIDS drama features Leleti Khumalo and Lihle Mvelase. ‘Yesterday’ movie: Fantastic central performance in South African AIDS drama To date, nowhere has the AIDS pandemic been felt more strongly than in Sub-Saharan Africa, home to approximately 16 percent of the world’s…
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About a Boy movie with bon vivant Hugh Grant and Baby: ‘No man has the right to be an island’ message. ‘About a Boy’ movie review: Some men should remain islands On the surface, Chris and Paul Weitz’s 2002 movie About a Boy has a profound,…