Even though Sandra Hüller failed to take home the Best Actress Award at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, her two Official Competition movies bagged the Palme d’Or and the Grand …
Filmmakers
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Edward D. Wood Jr. (a.k.a. Ed Wood) has been labeled ‘The Worst Director of All Time.’ Yet the Grade-Z auteur whose credits include Plan 9 from Outer Space is now …
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TCM Classic Film Festival: Filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh, and actor (and sometime director) George Clooney were among the Hollywood celebrities in attendance.
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The first women filmmakers are the topic of Anthony Slide’s book The Silent Feminists. In a q&a with Alt Film Guide, the author and film historian discusses Weber, Arzner et …
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Belfast movie: Kenneth Branagh is shooting his ‘most personal film,’ set in tumultuous 1960s Northern Ireland. Judi Dench and Jamie Dornan among stars.
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Little Fugitive director Morris Engel was the post-WWII ‘Father of American Independent Cinema,’ inspiring John Cassavetes and the French New Wave.
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Hal Prince Broadway musical legend: Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber collaborator + remembering subversive cult classic.
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Amazing Tales from the Archives: SFSFF spotlights unusual movie audio system, pioneering female documentarian and memorably inventive comedy fantasies.
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Blake Edwards Movies: The Pink Panther filmmaker at his best directing not slapstick but more refined comedies and surprisingly effective serious dramas.
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Ernst Lubitsch movies’ subtle touch now passé in our age of sledgehammer filmmaking but The Student Prince and The Merry Widow still delight.
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Quentin Tarantino Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame: Peaceful ceremony Despite Police Threats of ‘Surprise’ Against The Hateful Eight Director.
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And Then There Were None Movie Remake: Oscar Nominee Morten Tyldum to Direct reboot of classic Agatha Christie mystery bestseller.
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Christopher Nolan New Movie Release Date: Batman Trilogy diretor’s films are as eagerly anticipated as Steven Spielberg’s in 1980s.
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Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg to Join Woody Allen Movie Project? Untitled Film also reportedly to feature Bruce Willis.
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Kristen Stewart Joins Kelly Reichardt Movie also with Laura Dern and Michelle Williams. History-making César winner Stewart to play lawyer.
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Marc Allégret: From André Gide Protégé (and lover) to Simone Simon Mentor. Allégret was one of French cinema’s greatest starmakers.
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Pretty Poison with Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins: Noel Black-directed cult crime classic. Cult movie classic Pretty Poison filmmaker Noel Black has died Noel Black, best remembered for the 1968 …
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Chris Hemsworth in Snow White and the Huntsman. ‘The Huntsman’ release date announced as ‘Snow White and the Huntsman 2’ drops Snow White a.k.a. Kristen Stewart Universal’s Snow White and …
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Oldest person in movies: Manoel de Oliveira. Oldest person in movies? Following the recent passing of 1931 Dracula actress Carla Laemmle at age 104, there is one less movie centenarian …
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Justin Bieber Believe Bombs but comparisons to Never Say Never unfair + David O. Russell Movies: All-Star Crime Film to become his biggest box office hit?
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Edouard Molinaro: La Cage aux Folles’ Oscar-nominated filmmaker. La Cage aux Folles director Edouard Molinaro collaborated with Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau & Orson Welles Edouard Molinaro, best known internationally for …
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Hal Needham: Stuntman & Burt Reynolds director was last year’s Honorary Oscar recipient Veteran stuntman and stunt coordinator Hal Needham, whose stunt-work movie credits ranged from John Ford Westerns to …
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Bryce Dallas Howard. Bryce Dallas Howard in Jurassic World? Howard possibly the next female star in Jurassic Park franchise Bryce Dallas Howard, Rush director Ron Howard’s daughter perhaps best known …
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Channing Tatum in a rare non-shirtless moment in Magic Mike. Channing Tatum to direct Magic Mike 2? Channing Tatum, whose White House Down opens this evening in North America, may …
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Eddie Romero. Eddie Romero dies: Filipino filmmaker best known for his exploitation horror and action movies Eddie Romero, one of most best-known Filipino filmmakers, died of prostate cancer on Tuesday, …
Alice Guy Blaché: The world’s first woman director is remembered in this q&a with film historian Anthony Slide, who also discusses the republication of her book of memoirs.
‘Under the Volcano’ screening: John Huston’s ‘quality’ comeback starring daring Albert Finney As part of its John Huston film series, the UCLA Film & Television Archive will be presenting the …
William Cameron Menzies Movies: Murderous Joan Fontaine, Howard Hughes’ Nazi Communists out to destroy American Way of Life.
Jean-Luc Godard Solution for Greek Debt Crisis is a simple one that quite literally involves the use of the Aristotelian concept of Logic.
Luis Buñuel Movies: Subversive, Challenging Viridiana (‘blasphemous’ according to the Vatican) and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
Best Picture tie surprise: Gravity was one of the winners. Producers Guild of America Awards: ‘Gravity’ & ’12 Years a Slave’ tie for Best Picture Earlier this evening, Jan. 19, …
Patrice Chéreau and Queen Margot star Isabelle Adjani. Patrice Chéreau dies: French director best known for ‘Queen Margot’ & gay-related dramas Screenwriter, sometime actor, and stage, opera, and film director …