This past June 14, one of the world’s top directors of the last 25 years, Pedro Almodóvar, was presented with the title of Commander of the Order of Merit of …
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Curtis Harrington, best known as the director of numerous stylized horror films, died at age 80 on Sunday evening, May 6, at his Hollywood Hills home. Born in Los Angeles …
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The New York Public Library’s Donnell Media Center is presenting “The Two Faces of Wakefield Poole,” centering on the filmmaker of X-rated gay and not-so-gay cult classics such as Boys in …
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Jessie Matthews in the musical First a Girl: Victor Victoria precursor. The bfi is currently presenting a Jessie Matthews retrospective, which ends on March 11. From Richard Stirling’s bfi article: “Few stories …
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Dark Fantasy Tops NSFC while raunchy Kate Winslet film wins Iowa + is Al Gore global warming documentary going to change Americans’ warped views?
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Robert Altman: ‘The Player’ + ‘Nashville’ & ‘MASH’ director dead at 81 Robert Altman, whose movie career alternated between little-seen and at times poorly received offbeat efforts and award-winning film …
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Otto Preminger film noir Laura with Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “A Centennial Tribute to Otto Preminger” will be hosted by filmmaker …
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One of the highlights of this year’s San Sebastian International Film Festival (website) is a mouth-wateringly thorough Ernst Lubitsch Retrospective. (Image: Angel, with Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, and Melvyn Douglas.) …
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Fabián Bielinsky dead at 47: Second (and last) feature film, ‘The Aura,’ was screened a few days ago at the Los Angeles Film Festival Argentinean filmmaker Fabián Bielinsky has died …
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Bette Davis in Mr. Skeffington, directed by Vincent Sherman. Vincent Sherman dead at 99: Director guided Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Ida Lupino (image: Bette Davis in ‘Mr. Skeffington’) Vincent Sherman, …
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Versatile Hollywood director Richard Fleischer, at his best handling action films and suspense thrillers, died yesterday of “natural causes” at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in the Los Angeles …
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Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry. Don Siegel Movies: From Alien Pods to Clint Eastwood From March 17 through April 13, New York City’s Film Forum (website) will be screening a …
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SAG and DGA Awards: Crashing Gay Cowboy Party + the return of veterans Paul Newman and Shirley Temple while Felicity Huffman wins one loses one.
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Gene Hackman Night Moves: 1975 neo-noir movie by Arthur Penn screening as part of Academy tribute to the 3-time Best Director Oscar nominee.
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Pasolini protégé & collaborator Sergio Citti dead at 72 Sergio Citti, a close friend, frequent collaborator, and protégé of controversial filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, died on Oct. 11 in Rome. …
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Are there Iraq War parallels in George Lucas’ Revenge of the Sith? The American filmmaker tackled the issue at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
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The WWII-era Katyn massacre is the topic of Andrzej Wajda’s next project + Criterion’s ‘3 War Films’ DVD includes the classic Ashes and Diamonds.
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Lord of the Rings lawsuit: Former professional partners fight over TLOTR profits as Peter Jackson’s Wingnut Films sues ‘wanton’ New Line Cinema.
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What are the Academy Awards? One famous Oscar winner doesn’t seem to hold them in high regard, while a film publication lists the Ten Very Worst Best Pictures ever.
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Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood have performed an unexpected Golden Globes turnabout, while Hilary Swank and Annette Bening have an awards season rematch ‘tie.’
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El Chupacabra terrifies Big Pharma: How polemical filmmaker Michael Moore has become an urban legend within the American pharmaceutical industry.
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Sidney Lumet movies getting some belated Academy recognition: The Honorary Oscar will go to the Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon director.
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Diane English has penned and will direct The Women remake, as the 1939 all-female classic comedy is finally getting a 21st-century facelift. Meg Ryan and Annette Bening are slated to …
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Ed Wood’s long-thought (partially) lost film Necromania has been rediscovered. This groundbreaking sexually explicit supernatural tale stars Ric Lutze and Rene Bond.
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Two Pedro Almodóvar quotes: Bad Education filmmaker takes on the Catholic Church and its millenary anti-gay stance, while actor Gael García Bernal reveals his ‘inner transvestite.’
Best Director Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Leonardo DiCaprio at the DGA Awards. © DGA. Well on his way to his first Academy Award, last night Martin Scorsese received the …
In the New York Times, Dave Kehr has written about the death of Paris-born filmmaker Danièle Huillet, who succumbed to cancer on Oct. 9 at the home of friends in …
Two-time Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker Shohei Imamura died in Tokyo on May 30. The 79-year-old Japanese filmmaker had been suffering from liver cancer. Born in Tokyo in 1926, Imamura entered a …
Gog 1954 (2001: A Space Odyssey precursor) director Herbert L. Strock + Brazilian producer of Cinema Novo classics The Guns and Ganga Zumba remembered.
The American Cinematheque to present a 6-week Ingmar Bergman film series with new prints of Cries and Whispers and Autumn Sonata.
The winners of the various Guild Awards’: Season’s curious Best Director and Best Film bifurcation continues and thus further complicates this year’s Oscar predictions.
A Muslim radical has killed contentious Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh – Vincent van Gogh’s great-grandnephew known for several polemical movies.