Ra’anan Alexandrovicz’s The Law in These Parts Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild, the story of a young girl growing up in Louisiana (to be released by Fox Searchlight) …
Filmmakers
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Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos died at age 76 on Jan. 24 at a hospital near Athens. Angelopoulos had suffered serious head injuries after being hit by a motorcycle while crossing …
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Chris Colfer: 1 of Few Openly Gay Actors (with upcoming movie and play) at Golden Globes plus Kristen Wiig, Oscar fave Octavia Spencer.
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Michelle Williams and Elle Macpherson: Golden Globes’ Best Actress and Top Model as Marilyn Monroe spirit revisited.
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The Artist‘s Michel Hazanavicius is the only first-timer among the five nominated directors for the 2012 Directors Guild of America Awards. Hazanavicius’ competition consists of Woody Allen for Midnight in …
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Martin Scorsese: British Academy (BAFTA) Fellowship Recipient is the latest male, British/American film industry talent so honored.
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Barry Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby and Gene Lockhart in Going My Way Leo McCarey is Turner Classic Movies’ Director of the Evening this Christmas. Considering that McCarey was an ardent Catholic, …
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Clint Eastwood: Gay Marriage support or merely IDGAF? + Family reality show may feature ‘most fabulous’ cameo by two-time Best Director Oscar winner.
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TCM Cruise: Oscar Winners Eva Marie Saint and Ernest Borgnine + Hitchcock Star Tippi Hedren plus Turner hosts Robert Osborne and Ben Mankiewicz.
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Mike Leigh vs Isabelle Adjani: Berlin Film Festival getting ‘Outspoken’ President with no qualms about badmouthing 2-time Best Actress Oscar nominee.
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Ken Russell, best known for his movies featuring sex-starved nuns, nude male wrestling, “offensive” religious symbolism, and kaleidoscopic musical numbers, died Sunday, Nov. 27, ’11, in the United Kingdom. Russell …
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Who is The Iron Lady? Ask Meryl Streep, who plays Margaret Thatcher in the Phyllida Lloyd-directed biopic. Oscar veteran Meryl Streep may have her name already engraved on the Best …
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Tate Taylor & James Earl Jones, Michael Fassbender & Steve McQueen: Oscar hopefuls and honorees at Governors Awards.
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Filmmaker/animator Sarah Watt, winner of the Australian Film Institute’s (AFI) Best Director and Best Screenplay awards for the 2006 drama Look Both Ways died at age 53 on Nov. 4. …
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Cam Gigandet, 5 Star Day Directed by Danny Buday (photo), and starring Twilight‘s Cam Gigandet and Sucker Punch‘s Jena Malone,the psychological drama 5 Star Day opened via Breaking Glass Pictures …
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Gilbert Cates, best known as the man behind a record 14 Academy Awards ceremonies, died at age 77 on Sept. 31 in the Los Angeles of Westwood. Cates reportedly had …
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Women Directors’ Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Presence: Nadine Labaki submission Where Do We Go Now? Today it was announced that Patty Jenkins, whose Monster earned Charlize Theron a Best …
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Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai. Orson Welles’ career as an actor was both fruitful and frustrating. From Citizen Kane (1941) to Someone to Love (1987), …
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Young Alfred Hitchcock movie? Betty Compson in The White Shadow, which was actually directed by Graham Cutts. Among other duties, Hitchcock wrote and edited the 1923 film. About thirty minutes …
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Silvio Narizzano, best known for the Swinging London comedy-drama Georgy Girl, died July 26. Narizzano was 84. Based on Margaret Forster’s novel, and starring Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates, James Mason, …
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Filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis, best known for the 1964 Oscar-nominated drama Zorba the Greek, died of complications from a heart attack and chronic respiratory problems early Monday at an Athens hospital. …
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Alfred Hitchcock suspense thriller: I Confess with Montgomery Clift. Alfred Hitchcock is the focus of tonight’s programming on Turner Classic Movies, which will be showing five of the director’s films: Stage …
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Tim Hetherington Killed by mortar fire in Libya: Oscar-Nominated Restrepo Co-Director, Photojournalist was covering civil war.
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Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Sidney Lumet, Murder on the Orient Express. Among Lumet’s most notable big-screen efforts are the U.S. justice system dramas 12 Angry Men and The Verdict; the …
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Dawn Hudson The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is replacing retiring executive director Bruce Davis with two people: former Film Independent head Dawn Hudson and long-time Academy executive …
Michel Hazanavicius and wife Bérénice Bejo: Making Golden Globes history. Michel Hazanavicius and wife Bérénice Bejo: ‘The Artist’ achieves unique Golden Globes feat Michel Hazanavicius and wife Bérénice Bejo accept …
According to various online sources, Tasmanian-born director Don Sharp has died at age 89. A former small-time actor (The Planter’s Wife, The Cruel Sea), Sharp (born April 19, 1922, in …
https://youtu.be/bfYTsRLjpPgVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Shame REDBAND Trailer (https://youtu.be/bfYTsRLjpPg) “Shame, shame, shame”: Michael Fassbender shows that sex is in the eye of the beholder in the trailer …
Hal Kanter (see photo at Bette Davis tribute), creator of the groundbreaking TV series Julia, starring Diahann Carroll (photo) as a nurse, died at age 92 on Nov. 6 in …
Justin Bieber Justin Bieber going to jail? Not so fast Justin Bieber, pop icon and the star of the documentary Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (right), has come out against …
Actor James Earl Jones and make-up artist Dick Smith will receive Honorary Awards, and former television hostess Oprah Winfrey will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Academy of Motion …
This probably isn’t the last of Lars von Trier – according to him, his project with Martin Scorsese is still a go – but the ‘persona non grata’ filmmaker has …