Wuthering Heights Movie: Excellent Merle Oberon but hammy Laurence Olivier in Samuel Goldwyn 1939 Best Picture Oscar nominee from Emily Brontë novel.
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Bette Davis and Geraldine Fitzgerald in Dark Victory (top); Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in Wuthering Heights (bottom) Academy revisits ‘Hollywood’s Greatest Year’: 10 Best Picture nominees to be screened…
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How long is Gone with the Wind? Long enough for Clark Gable to watch Vivien Leigh grow from teenage belle to womanly Civil War survivor. “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best…
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Marilyn Bergman and Alan Bergman at 1983 Academy Awards. Songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman, among whose compositions are “The Way We Were” and the song score for Yentl, will be…
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The Watermelon Woman with Cheryl Dunye and Guinevere Turner. Actress-filmmaker Cheryl Dunye and producer Alexandra Juhasz will be present at the REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles for a screening of…
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Left to right: Costume worn by Danny Kaye in The Inspector General (1949), designed by Travilla. Costume worn by Viveca Lindfors in The Adventures of Don Juan (1948), designed by…
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Darfur Movie: The Devil Came on Horseback. Darfur Now and The Devil Came on Horseback, both focusing on the ongoing Darfur crisis, will screen as part of the Academy of…
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Hypnosis and crime: Michael Redgrave and Joan Bennett in Secret Beyond the Door. April 4 update: Tonight at 7:30 p.m. at UCLA’s Festival of Preservation you’ll be able to catch…
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell. “Late Hawks” is the title of a film series featuring the, what else?, later efforts of Hollywood auteur Howard Hawks, which…
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Jane Fonda Broadway comeback: 33 Variations with Colin Hanks and Samantha Mathis. In the New York Times, Ben Brantley reviews Jane Fonda’s return to Broadway after 46 years: “It’s a…
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https://youtu.be/ojo3I59Gn6cVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: CARMEN MIRANDA - O QUE É QUE A BAIANA TEM (https://youtu.be/ojo3I59Gn6c) Carmen Miranda – known as the “Brazilian Bombshell” in the U.S.;…
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How to Make-Up? Oscars’ Artists Show How + Kate Winslet is London Film Critics’ winner/loser while Michael Fassbender is sole Best Actor also-ran.
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‘The Shifting Fog’ a.k.a. ‘The House at Riverton’ book cover featuring 1930s and 1940s Hollywood actress Miriam Hopkins. Kate Morton ‘The Shifting Fog’ book cover featuring (unbilled) Hollywood star Miriam…
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Ed Catmull creativity honored + NSFC Awards’ first ever Animated and Non-Fiction Best Film winner as Fassbinder diva Hanna Schygulla returns.
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Miracle on 34th Street 1947 with Maureen O’Hara and Edmund Gwenn. A newly restored 35mm print of Miracle on 34th Street, the whimsical 1947 classic about Santa Claus posing as…
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Rashomon effect revisited: Toshiro Mifune and Machiko Kyo in Akira Kurosawa classic. Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic Rashomon, which officially introduced Japanese cinema to the world at large, will be the…
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AFI FEST: Joanna Cassidy & Julia Ormond + Meryl Streep & Amy Adams ‘Doubt’ Premiere AFI FEST 2008 opening night premiere of Miramax Films’ Doubt held at ArcLight Hollywood on…
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George Stevens. George Stevens’ The More the Merrier movie screening: Oscar-Nominated romantic comedy stars Jean Arthur & Joel McCrea + Charles Coburn As part of its George Stevens Lecture on…
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Jon Blair and Miep Gies: Anne Frank Remembered documentary. One film historian friend once (half-)jokingly suggested that the Academy should have a special Oscar category for Holocaust documentaries, as those…
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Diseuse Berta Singerman and Luana Alcañiz in Nothing More Than a Woman. The 1934 melodrama Nada más que una mujer / Nothing More Than a Woman, a unique sample of…
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Leslie Caron in Gigi. Leslie Caron will be on hand for the premiere of a new digital restoration of Vincente Minnelli’s 1958 Best Picture Oscar winner Gigi on Oct. 10…
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Somebody Save Me: Gay conversion therapy film Save Me. Save Me is the tale of a couple of troubled gay men (Chad Allen, Robert Gant) who find salvation (of an…
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Bill Condon’s Dreamgirls, a shoo-in for one of the five Best Picture slots in 2006 (a shoo-in that failed to make the cut), will be screened as the next feature…
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Amateur home movies’ stars: Roddy McDowall during the filming of George Stevens’ The Greatest Story Ever Told (top); Norma Shearer on the set of Romeo and Juliet (bottom). Amateur home…
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Ernest Borgnine in Marty. Ernest Borgnine, the 91-year-old veteran of nearly 200 films and TV shows, will show up at the American Cinematheque’s (website) screening of Marty (1955), for which…
Nagisa Oshima. “No other director of Oshima’s generation has made more vital, inventive and challenging films, or taken more risks. He is a giant in contemporary cinema.” - Tony Rayns…
Milt Kahl: The Animation Michelangelo, A Centennial Celebration “Milt Kahl: The Animation Michelangelo, A Centennial Celebration,” an homage to Disney animator Milt Kahl (right), will be presented on Monday, April…
Writer, director, actor, and producer Carl Reiner, among whose feature-film credits are the George Burns hit Oh God! (1977) and several Steve Martin vehicles, is the subject of a mini-retrospective…
Douglas Fairbanks in Wild and Woolly (top) and Don Q. Son of Zorro (bottom). Below right, the silent era superstar can be seen in The Matrimaniac. The exhibition “Douglas Fairbanks:…
Antarctica: Gay population of Tel Aviv dreams about lands far away in ensemble Israeli drama. In writer-director Yair Hochner’s intriguing, multi-layered, remarkably well-acted Antarctica, which Regent Releasing is opening tomorrow,…
Doubt, the much-anticipated drama directed and adapted by John Patrick Shanley from his own Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, and starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and…
Prelude to War. War Documentaries: Prelude to War Oscar statuette – the 1958 duplicate – is returned to the U.S. Army An Oscar statuette earned by Frank Capra’s 1942 documentary…