Oscars’ Westerns: Turner Classic Movies’ ’31 Days of Oscar’ continues with 11 titles, including John Ford’s classic Stagecoach and the so-called Worst Best Picture Winner Ever.
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Roy Rogers Under Western Stars: Subversive Singing Cowboy Western still relevant in this age of special interests in government and climate change threat.
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Robert Redford Movies: Two of the Biggest Blockbusters Ever and War Hero or Serial Killer? The future Hollywood icon in an early subversive war movie.
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Shane with Alan Ladd. ‘Shane’: Alan Ladd stars in classic Western to be screened at the Academy The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a 60th anniversary…
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Randolph Scott ca. 1945. Randolph Scott movies: From Westerns to Cary Grant / Irene Dunne comedy Handsome, granite-faced Randolph Scott is Turner Classic Movies’ next great choice in its “Summer…
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The SFSFF’s Amazing Tales from the Archives featured two fascinating topics: Finding Douglas Fairbanks’ The Half-Breed and early movie sound technology.
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‘Despicable Me 2’ Despicable Me 2 easily tops domestic box office as ‘The Lone Ranger’ 2013 bombs July 8 update: Here’s a quick rundown of the July 5-7 weekend’s top…
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Laurence Olivier = Kenneth Branagh in My Week with Marilyn. Once upon a time, Kenneth Branagh was hailed as the new Laurence Olivier. Back in early 1990, Branagh was nominated…
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Ben Johnson isn’t exactly what one would call a movie icon; Johnson isn’t even a Western icon, despite his presence in numerous Old (and not-so-Old) West movies during his 50+-year…
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Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger in Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain As I sit here writing, I am finding it hard to gather my thoughts together. Most of this essay has already…
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True Grit box office: Joel and Ethan Coen’s acclaimed Western is a surprisingly successful late-year release. Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon star.
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The Warrior’s Way movie box office: Starring Jang Dong-gun and Kate Bosworth, Sngmoo Lee’s martial arts Western has turned out to be a mammoth commercial flop. Geoffrey Rush costars.
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True Grit 2010 movie review: Far superior to the 1969 John Wayne version, as Joel and Ethan Coen Western is much more than the sum of its parts.
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Stagecoach with John Wayne. Stagecoach is the next 1939 best picture Oscar nominee to be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Hollywood’s Greatest…
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Cinecon attractions include the sentimental 1930 Al Jolson musical Mammy and the early Bette Davis drama The Menace.
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Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Bruce Willis looks none too cheerful. The original Die Hard (1988) will have a special 20th anniversary screening on Wednesday, Aug. 14, at 7:30…
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Starring gay MGM contract actor William Haines, the pre-Code comedy Western Way Out West features gay innuendoes just about everywhere you look.
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Seen (sort of) together for the first and last time, Mae West and W.C. Fields follow their own routines in the entertaining comedy Western My Little Chickadee.
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The Trespasser movie: Gloria Swanson stars in mother love melodrama with Purnell Pratt and Robert Ames, who would die two years after this film was made. Author Cari Beauchamp will…
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Psychological movies: Movies on the Mind since Sigmund Freud “I don’t believe it’s possible to graphically represent the abstract nature of our thinking in a respectable form,” said Sigmund Freud.…
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Image: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Press Release: The 1967 Best Picture nominees Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Bonnie and Clyde will be screened as the next features in the…
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The River 1951: Jean Renoir India-set classic. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be presenting a restored print of Jean Renoir’s 1951 drama The River. Though largely…
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Brokeback Mountain with Heath Ledger. Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain is without a doubt a culturally significant motion picture. The same-sex romantic drama won numerous awards, it was discussed all over…
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Errol Flynn DVD box set: The Signature Collection features 5 classic swashbucklers and Westerns in addition to a new Turner Classic Movies documentary.
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Pretty Western actress had promising Hollywood career derailed after a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical flop, but was kept busy opposite several cowboy stars.
Randolph Scott Westerns, comedies, war dramas: TCM schedule on August 19, 2013 See previous post: “Cary Grant and Randolph Scott Marriages – And ‘Expect the Biographical Worst.’” 3:00 AM BADMAN’S…
The Lone Ranger (2013) movie review: Johnny Depp is a key problem in Gore Verbinski’s bloated action Western. Armie Hammer costars.
Rango Movie Box Office: Latest Gore Verbinski & Johnny Depp Collaboration Has Year’s Strongest Debut
Rango movie box office: With Johnny Depp heading the voice cast, Gore Verbinski’s animated comedy Western had the year’s biggest opening weekend so far in the domestic market. Is that enough?
Movie Star Stamps: Katharine Hepburn + Pioneering Black Filmmaker Oscar Micheaux and movie cowboys William S. Hart and Tom Mix + Gene Autry and Roy Rogers.
Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 with Claudia Cardinale. Sergio Leone’s epic Western Once Upon a Time in the West will be screened as part of the Academy…
The Brave One box office: Directed by Neil Jordan and starring two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster, the unenthusiastically received revenge thriller has had a wobbly start.
Tom Hompertz and Louis Waldon in Andy Warhol’s ‘Lonesome Cowboys.’ ‘Gay cowboy movies’ directed by Andy Warhol & Ang Lee: London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival screenings Among the film…
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