Rex Ingram. St. Patrick’s Day always reminds me of silent era filmmaker Rex Ingram, among whose silent era efforts are The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Prisoner of Zenda,…
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Geneviève Bujold as Anne Boleyn in Charles Jarrott’s Anne of the Thousand Days. Charles Jarrott, best known for the period dramas Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) and Mary Queen…
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Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter: Matching Hair on the Oscars Red Carpet while garbed in dark outfits plus white fan and long black gloves.
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Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, Francis Ford Coppola and Wife Eleanor at the Oscars as movie veterans honored with special career awards.
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Roger Deakins: ‘True Grit’ cinematographer has no Oscar to call his own. Oscar Predictions: Best Cinematography – Roger Deakins, ‘True Grit’ Although Inception‘s Wally Pfister won the 2011 American Society…
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Best Actress Oscar Nominees Group picture with Natalie Portman and Jennifer Lawrence with Nicole Kidman, Annette Bening and Michelle Williams.
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Steven Spielberg The Color Purple Oscar snub: Whoopi Goldberg did receive a Best Actress nomination. Steven Spielberg’s Best Direction Oscar nomination for his 1985 film version of Alice Walker’s The…
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Barbra Streisand director and actress in Yentl with Mandy Patinkin and Amy Irving. “Leonardo DiCaprio, Screenwriter James Cameron for Titanic: Biggest Oscar Snubs #6.” To date, only four women have received…
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Steve McQueen, Bullitt: Peter Yates directed. Peter Yates, Oscar nominated for directing and producing Best Film nominees Breaking Away (1979) and The Dresser (1983), has died after “a long illness.”…
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Josef von Sternberg directed Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper in Morocco. Turner Classic Movies is dedicating this evening to filmmaker Josef von Sternberg, best known for his elaborate pageants starring Marlene…
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I Remember Mama with Irene Dunne, Philip Dorn, Barbara Bel Geddes, Steve Brown: George Stevens immigrant family drama. George Stevens’ film series on Turner Classic Movies continues tonight with a…
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Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Vittorio Gassman in Mauro Monicelli’s Big Deal on Madonna Street. Mario Monicelli, the (co)writer-director of Italian cinema classics such as I soliti ignoti / Big Deal on…
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Irvin Kershner, the director of the most watchable early Star Wars saga effort, The Empire Strikes Back (1980), has died in Los Angeles. Kershner was 87. What makes The Empire Strikes…
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Marilyn Monroe in Roy Ward Baker’s Don’t Bother to Knock. Roy Ward Baker, best known for directing Marilyn Monroe in her first dramatic lead, Don’t Bother to Knock (1952), opposite…
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Arthur Penn epoch-making crime drama Bonnie and Clyde with Gene Hackman, Warren Beatty, and Faye Dunaway. Arthur Penn, who died of congestive heart failure at his New York City home…
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Jean-Luc Godard. Jean-Luc Godard, Eli Wallach (right), Kevin Brownlow, and Francis Ford Coppola have been chosen as the recipients of the 2010 special Academy Awards. Godard, Brownlow, and Wallach will…
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3D technology on film: Avatar and the world of Pandora. 3D technology at the movies: “Getting Perspective III” Academy panel series 3D technology at the movies was a sensation back…
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Megan Fox as Mikaela Banes in Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen June 20 update: Can you imagine Michael Bay taking orders from anyone? Michael Bay, the tough guy…
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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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Outside the Law 2010 with Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila. Directed by Rachid Bouchareb. ‘Outside the Law’ 2010 Cannes controversy: French right-wingers & war veterans irked Rachid Bouchareb’s Outside the Law…
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Lawrence Kasdan, whose neo-noir Body Heat starring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner has become a 1980s classic, introduced a screening of John Huston directorial debut, The Maltese Falcon, starring Humphrey…
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Joseph W. Sarno – chiefly known as Joe Sarno – the director of cult erotic movies such as Sin in the Suburbs (1963), Moonlighting Wives (1966), and Confessions of a…
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Cary Grant and Jean Arthur in The Talk of the Town (top); Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year (bottom). Actor Cary Grant collaborated with director George…
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Edward and Bella kissing: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in Eclipse. Edward and Bella kissing in Eclipse That’s Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in the by now famous The Twilight…
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James Dean in Giant: George Stevens sprawling Texas-set 1956 family drama. George Stevens will be the star attraction of Turner Classic Movies’ Monday evenings in April. The series begins tonight…
Christopher Nolan and Wife Emma Thomas, Danny Boyle: Outrage at Oscars? Batman trilogy filmmaker yet to get Best Director nod.
Christopher Nolan Oscar Snub: Christian Bale and Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight. Biggest Oscar Snubs #4e In early 2009, Christopher Nolan’s megablockbuster The Dark Knight received nominations from the…
Blake Edwards tribute: Shamelessly Sanitized Breakfast at Tiffany’s + Near-Anomaly Victor Victoria with Robert Preston as flamboyantly gay scene-stealer.
Judy Garland as Dorothy in Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz So, Robert Zemeckis, the guy who brought you Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Death Becomes Her,…
Roman Polanski, 76, will not be extradited to the United States following a decision by the Swiss Justice Ministry. In September 2009, Polanski – among whose efforts are Knife in…
Jesse Eisenberg, Mike O’Connell, The Living Wake Directed by Sol Tryon, and co-written by Mike O’Connell and Peter Kline, The Living Wake is the sort of movie that defies both…
Roman Polanski, 76, the Oscar-winning director currently under house arrest in Switzerland, has issued a statement circulated by his friend Bernard-Henri Lévy, publisher of the French film magazine La Règle…