Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Winners’ posters + W.C. Fields Pettifoggery: Academy exhibitions celebrate artworks and former vaudevillian’s career.
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Anna Magnani in Bellissima. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (website) began a mini Anna Magnani retrospective, Mamma Roma: The Films of Anna Magnani, on Friday, Nov. 3. Twelve…
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Frank Sinatra in ‘The Man with the Golden Arm’: Groundbreaking drug addiction drama. Although hardly one of Otto Preminger’s better films, The Man with the Golden Arm is worth a…
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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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Press Release: Beverly Hills, CA – The evolution of Mexican cinema, the important role of Mexican filmmakers working in Hollywood and the influence of international filmmakers working in Mexico all…
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Millionaire match made in heaven – or rather, New York City. Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, and Lauren Bacall try to calculate the number of diamonds, cookies, and hunky young men…
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The Barker with Dorothy Mackaill and Milton Sills. Among the good & rarities screened at the UCLA Film and Television Archive Festival of Preservation (website) was a restored print of…
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Network movie with William Holden and Peter Finch. Image: © A.M.P.A.S. The year when a boxing Cinderella punched his dim-witted way to a Best Picture Academy Award was the same…
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Chinatown: John Huston suggests a good homeopathic remedy to Jack Nicholson, who developed a boil on his nose after drinking too much of L.A.’s tap water. Image: © A.M.P.A.S. On…
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Chicago with Phyllis Haver. Image: A.M.P.A.S. A restored print of the little-seen 1928 silent film Chicago will be screened on August 16 at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…
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Funny Girl Press Release: The 1968 Best Picture nominee Funny Girl will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Great To Be…
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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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Doctor Zhivago theme: Lara & the Russian Revolution When bigger isn’t exactly better: Doctor Zhivago – despite its classic music theme – is no masterpiece. Bloated and overlong, it fails…
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Robert Hays in Airplane! ‘Airplane!’ movie cast at Academy screening The 1980 Airplane! movie writers/directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, and actor Robert Hays will be among those…
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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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Janet Gaynor: First Best Actress Academy Award winner “Has anyone in Hollywood ever had a trajectory quite like the career and reputation of Janet Gaynor?” inquires Los Angeles Times film…
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Oscar-nominated gay author-screenwriter Gavin Lambert tribute includes I Never Promised You a Rose Garden + The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone.
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Falcon Lair: Rudolph Valentino House of legendary history (Doris Duke lived there) for Sale in Bel Air + Silent Era Child Actress Baby Peggy Talks!
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AFI FEST showcases Heath Ledger in Casanova: Chaos in Hollywood area. AFI FEST: ‘Casanova’ movie chaos The worst thing I can say about the 2005 edition of the AFI Los…
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Joel McCrea. Joel McCrea movies: LACMA’s ‘Centenary Tribute’ to Old Hollywood star Joel McCrea, the star of numerous light comedies, melodramas, and Westerns from the early the 1930s to the…
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Mary Astor. Classic film festival Cinecon: Lots of rarities + pre-scandal Mary Astor & Mary Miles Minter There’ll be rare movies aplenty at Los Angeles’ mini-film festival Cinecon. For starters,…
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Brazilian cinema at MoMA Brazilian cinema will return to New York City’s Museum of Modern Art in July. MoMA will be presenting the third edition of “Premiere Brazil!” between July…
‘The Golden Age of Norman Corwin’ Press Release: Beverly Hills, CA A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin, which won the 2005 Academy Award® for Documentary Short…
Harold Lloyd Rare Pictures: Academy Exhibition Showcases Silent Era ‘comic genius’ in rarely seen photos in front of and behind camera.
The Hard Way with Joan Leslie and Ida Lupino. ‘The Hard Way’ movie at the American Cinematheque: Director Vincent Sherman homage On Tuesday, Aug. 8, at 7:30 p.m., the American…
Movie Magic The films below feature the likes of Tyrone Power, Myrna Loy, Helen Morgan, George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, James Cagney, Anita Louise, Dick Powell, and Jeff Bridges. Press…
Chávez Ravine evictions and controversial autism shorts + Viola Liuzzo - the US Civil Rights Movement’s Only White Woman Martyr get LA screenings.
Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino in Beyond the Rocks: “Lost movie” will be screened in Los Angeles area. Gloria Swanson & Rudolph Valentino: Found ‘Lost’ film ‘Beyond the Rocks’ screening…
The American Cinematheque to present a 6-week Ingmar Bergman film series with new prints of Cries and Whispers and Autumn Sonata.