Bryan Forbes. Bryan Forbes has died: Katharine Hepburn & Leslie Caron + the original ‘The Stepford Wives’ director Director Bryan Forbes, whose films include the then-daring The L-Shaped Room, the…
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Jesus Franco a.k.a. Jess Franco: Cult sex & horror filmmaker. Jesús Franco a.k.a. Jess Franco: Cult sex & horror Spanish filmmaker dead at 82 “I think I was born because…
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Grace of Monaco Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly. Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly in ‘Grace of Monaco’: Best Actress Oscar nominee? Nicole Kidman Best Actress Academy Award nominee (possibly winner)…
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Ben Affleck director: DGA Award winner. Ben Affleck tops DGA Awards Ben Affleck, not nominated for a Best Director Academy Award this year (or any other year), has won the…
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Nagisa Oshima: In the Realm of the Senses Iconoclastic Filmmaker dead at 80 Nagisa Oshima, best known as the director of the sexually charged 1976 psychological drama Ai No Corrida…
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Amy Adams in The Master: “Classy” NSFC win. What Batman Awards? WGA snubs latest ‘Dark Knight’ movie The WGA Awards 2013 nominations were announced earlier today. Expect the Academy Awards…
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Kathryn Bigelow and Benh Zeitlin are Best Director favorites but Michael Haneke surprisingly bypassed also for Best Screenplay despite acclaimed film.
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Kurt Maetzig. Remembering pioneer East German filmmaker Kurt Maetzig Kurt Maetzig, one of East Germany’s pioneering filmmakers, died on Aug. 8 at his home in the village of Wildkuhl, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,…
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Clint Eastwood chair speech. Clint Eastwood chair speech at Republican National Convention It was less a bizarre “Clint Eastwood Chair Speech” than a bizarre “Clint Eastwood Chair Performance Artwork” at…
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Fernando Meirelles: City of God and The Constant Gardener filmmaker. RoboCop remake: ‘Hell’ for director José Padilha Fernando Meirelles (photo), the first and to date only Brazilian-born filmmaker to receive…
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D.W. Griffith Father of Film, controversial figure. To say that the movies wouldn’t be what they are today without D.W. Griffith is probably inaccurate. I mean, someone – or “someones”…
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A Bill of Divorcement with Katharine Hepburn and David Manners: 1932 George Cukor drama. George Cukor ‘gay Woman’s Director’? Known as a refined “woman’s director,” George Cukor has had his…
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Nora Ephron movies: Heartburn 1986: Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson as fictionalized versions of Nora Ephron and Carl Bernstein. Nora Ephron & Carl Bernstein: ‘Heartburn’ movie Besides her essays, screenplays, and…
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Carlos Reichenbach: The Forbidden Paradise / O Paraíso Proibido. Carlos Reichenbach, a Brazilian filmmaker and cinematographer perhaps best known for his sex comedies and dramas of the 1970s and early 1980s,…
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Les Misérables trailer is out. (Please scroll down.) You can hear Anne Hathaway’s miserable Fantine singing “I dreamed that love would never die … I had a dream my life…
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Kirk Cameron made headlines in early March after appearing on CNN’s Piers Morgan Show, where Cameron voiced his views on homosexuality: “I think that it’s – it’s – it’s unnatural.…
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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie Leg + Marlene Dietrich Pioneer Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and Angelina Jolie’s notorious right leg (“Brangeleg” for short?) are seen…
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Tippi Hedren once told The Times of London that Alfred Hitchcock – for whom she starred in The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964), and with whom she had an exclusive…
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Pierre Schoendoerffer, who won an Academy Award for the 1967 Vietnam War documentary The Anderson Platoon, died following an operation at a hospital outside Paris. He was 83. While still…
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‘The Artist’: Best Picture winner makes history. Best Picture winner ‘The Artist’: Two ‘First Times’ in Oscar history Pictured above are several cast members of Best Picture winner The Artist…
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Unless things change dramatically (apart from environmental chaos and apocalyptic wars), 30 or 40 years from now Martin Scorsese is going to be the best-remembered name of the current top-five…
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Fred Zinnemann began his career during the studio era, but kept on going, however sporadically, long after most of his contemporaries had retired. Even so, today his name means little…
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William Wyler was one of the greatest film directors Hollywood – or any other film industry – has ever produced. Today, Wyler lacks the following of Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford,…
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. Just last week, an email ad plugging Meryl Streep’s performance in The Weinstein Company release The Iron Lady…
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Anna Magnani in Luchino Visconti’s Bellissima (1951). At the end of Giuseppe Tornatore’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner Cinema Paradiso, small-town projectionist Philippe Noiret has died and the Nuovo…
Michael Winner: Death Wish director. ‘Death Wish’ director Michael Winner has died Michael Winner, best remembered for directing the Charles Bronson action hit Death Wish, died earlier today at his…
Drew Denny. Drew Denny discusses The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had with My Pants On Filmmaker, performance artist, songwriter, actress, screenwriter Drew Denny’s first feature film, the partly autobiographical The…
Tony Scott. Tony Scott jumps off bridge in Los Angeles area Earlier today, Aug. 19, director Tony Scott jumped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in the Los Angeles suburb of…
Avatar 2 news: Sequels to be filmed concurrently says Sigourney Weaver Avatar 2, 3, 4 to be filmed concurrently. [Photo: Sigourney Weaver in Avatar.] Audiences are clamoring for original fare,…
April 19, ’12, update: The Catching Fire director will be Francis Lawrence, among whose (few) feature-film credits are Reese Witherspoon / Robert Pattinson / Christoph Waltz’s Water for Elephants, Will…
Kirk Baxter, Tina Fey, Bradley Cooper, Angus Wall. Presenters Tina Fey and Bradley Cooper pose with Oscar winners Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall backstage at the 84th Academy Awards, held…
Dorothy McGuire, Gregory Peck, Gentleman’s Agreement Elia Kazan: Actors Director Elia Kazan is best remembered today for two things: his association with Marlon Brando during the first half of the…