‘Under the Volcano’ screening: John Huston’s ‘quality’ comeback starring daring Albert Finney As part of its John Huston film series, the UCLA Film & Television Archive will be presenting the…
‘Making Love’: Groundbreaking romantic gay drama returns to the big screen As part of its Anniversary Classics series, Laemmle Theaters will be presenting Arthur Hiller’s groundbreaking 1982 romantic drama Making…
One of cinema’s early comediennes, Dorothy Devore: between 1918 and 1930, the Ft. Worth-born actress was seen in nearly 100 movies, both features and shorts. Among them were Salvation Sue,…
The Thief and the Cobbler: Original version of Richard Williams’ animated film gets Academy premiere The first public screening of the original version of Richard Williams’ The Thief and the…
Ben-Hur 1925 with Ramon Novarro: The chariot race. ‘Ben-Hur’ 1925: Fast & furious epic Los Angeles screening Directed by Fred Niblo and starring Ramon Novarro, the 1925 Ben-Hur, a.k.a. Ben-Hur:…
Alfred Hitchcock ca. 1960. Alfred Hitchcock San Francisco: Guided tour through the sites of Hitchcock’s movies The San Francisco Silent Film Festival has arranged for San Francisco City Guides to…
Garth & Wayne’s World with Dana Carvey and Mike Myers. Wayne’s World movie: Mike Myers & Dana Carvey + director Penelope Spheeris to attend Academy screening Wayne’s World, starring Saturday…
Ann Arbor Film Festival 16mm films at the Los Angeles Filmforum The Los Angeles Filmforum will present the 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival’s 16mm short-film show, featuring recent U.S.-made experimental,…
The Birds poster: Universal Studios horror. Universal Studios horror: Alfred Hitchcock & James Whale + ‘Tarantula’ Academy screenings As part of the year-long celebration of Universal Pictures’ centenary, the Academy…
Clara Bow, Mantrap: The Silent Era’s “It Girl.” What do Andrei Tarkovsky, Edward G. Robinson, Clara Bow, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Audrey Hepburn have in common? Easy. They’ll all be…
AFI FEST 2011 Guest Artistic Director Pedro Almodóvar has selected the following classic thrillers to be presented at the festival: Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face, Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Cercle…
Rare movies: Director Allan Dwan, actor George O’Brien, cinematographer George Webber on the set of East Side West Side Are you a movie lover in Los Angeles, unable to travel…
Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in 7th Heaven, which helped – along with Sunrise and Street Angel – to earn Gaynor the first-ever Best Actress Academy Award. Frank Borzage’s 7th…
Cuban movie posters: Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. Here’s something unusual: hand-silkscreened Cuban posters for Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (right), Costa-Gavras’ Z, Ernesto Daranas Serrano’s Fallen Gods, Stanley Kubrick’s…
James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo’s Every Little Step Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman’s Soundtrack for a Revolution, and James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo’s Every Little Step…
Mark Zuckerberg: Time Person of the Year. Will the Time magazine Person of the Year cover give an awards season boost to Sony Pictures’ The Social Network? Directed by David…
Funny Girl movie: Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice and Omar Sharif in William Wyler’s 1968 blockbuster. A restored print of Funny Girl (1968), Barbra Streisand’s film debut, will reignite the Academy…
Barbara Sukowa as Hildegard von Bingen in Vision Margerethe von Trotta-Barbara Sukowa ‘Vision’: Hildegard von Bingen in L.A. Margarethe von Trotta’s Vision, Official Selection at the Telluride and Toronto film…
Lilli Palmer and Gary Cooper in Fritz Lang’s Cloak and Dagger (top); Carroll Baker in Elia Kazan’s Baby Doll (bottom). The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (website) 20th Anniversary…
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with Rudolph Valentino (left) and then-extra Ramon Novarro (right). Rose Dione is seen holding the French tricolor in Rex Ingram’s 1921 blockbuster. Directed by…
Gay brothers’ taboo affair: Rafael Cardoso and João Gabriel Vasconcellos in Aluízio Abranches’ From Beginning to End. Aluízio Abranches’ Do Começo ao Fim / From Beginning to End, Donatella Maiorca’s…
South Pacific movie: 1958 musical toplining Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi, John Kerr, France Nuyen, and Juanita Hall was a major box office hit. Tonight at 7:30 p.m., a recently restored…
Gay indie actor Matthew Montgomery and Steve Callahan, Role/Play (top); Montgomery in Robert Gaston’s Flight of the Cardinal (bottom). Described as “an unheralded superstar in the American independent gay filmmaking…
Eugène Lourié homage: Adrienne Corri (Mrs. Alexander in A Clockwork Orange) in Jean Renoir’s 1951 drama The River. The Art Directors Guild (ADG) Film Society and the American Cinematheque (AC)…
Double Indemnity poster. Regarding Barbara Stanwyck, Jacques Tourneur – who directed 11 episodes of the short-lived The Barbara Stanwyck Show – would later recall “that Barbara is one hell of…
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…
I’m So Excited 2013 with Miguel Ángel Silvestre. I’m So Excited: Flamboyant Pedro Almodóvar trailer just can’t hide it Pedro Almodóvar’s upcoming movie, I’m So Excited / Los amantes pasajeros…
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…
Brent Corrigan movie Judas Kiss. Gay and lesbian movies Judas Kiss – starring gay porn star Brent Corrigan (as Sean Paul Lockhart) – Trigger, Mangus!, Leading Ladies and Suicide Room…
Mary Pickford in Maurice Tourneur’s The Poor Little Rich Girl (top); Dustin Farnum in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Squaw Man (bottom). The Birth of Hollywood, part II of the seven-part…
Cammie King: ‘Gone with the Wind’ child actress has died Cammie King, Rhett Butler’s daughter Bonnie in Gone with the Wind, died of lung cancer in Fort Bragg, Calif., on…
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…