‘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 1984 drama Under the Volcano, starring Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, and Anthony Andrews, on July…
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‘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 Love, the first U.S. movie distributed by a major studio that focused on a romantic…
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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, Naughty Mary Brown, and Saving Sister Susie, all with frequent partner Earle Rodney. ‘Comediennes of…
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‘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 Cobbler will be held at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn…
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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 screening of George Stevens’ classic Western Shane, starring Alan Ladd as a lone and mysterious…
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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: A Tale of the Christ, will be screened at 8 p.m. on Wed., June 26,…
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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 lead “a special, SFSFF-only edition” of its “Alfred Hitchcock’s San Francisco” guided walking tour. This…
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Garth & Wayne’s World with Dana Carvey and Mike Myers. Wayne’s World movie: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Penelope Spheeris to attend Academy screening Wayne’s World, starring Saturday Night Live alumni Mike Myers and Dana Carvey, will be screened at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 23,…
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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 (literally, “passing lovers” and/or “passenger lovers”) has a new and full trailer. That’s the good…
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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, narrative, documentary and animated movies. The program, which will be screened at 7:30 p.m. on…
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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 of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present “Universal’s Legacy of Horror,” a month-long series…
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Audrey Hepburn films: ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ & ‘Two for the Road’ screening Tonight at 7:30 p.m., the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre in Santa Monica will be presenting two Audrey Hepburn movies of the ’60s: Blake Edwards’ romantic comedy-drama Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Stanley Donen’s offbeat…
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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 featured in some form or other at the Library of Congress’ Packard Campus in Culpeper,…
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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 Cinema Paradiso has become a pile of rubble. The bratty Italian boy Salvatore Cascio has…
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Samuel-Novarro House: Ramon Novarro swimming. Lloyd Wright’s Samuel-Novarro House is back in the market, as per Curbed Los Angeles. Located in the Los Feliz Hills, the eastern section of the Hollywood Hills, the house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son Lloyd Wright in the…
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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 rouge, Edmund Goulding’s Nightmare Alley, and Robert Siodmak’s The Killers. Why this particular quartet? “Because…