Bob Dylan: “Festival of Legends” in the Oscar-nominated documentary Festival. ‘Festival’ of Legends: Bob Dylan & Joan Baez showcased in Oscar-nominated documentary Before Woodstock and Monterey Pop there was ……
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Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark in No Way Out Ruby Dee will be the special guest at a screening of No Way Out (1950), part of the Academy of Motion Picture…
Lew Ayres and Louis Wolheim in All Quiet on the Western Front The silent version of the best picture Academy Award winner All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), in…
Gunga Din movie: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. George Stevens’ proudly “politically incorrect” – and for the most part much admired – action-adventure tale Gunga Din will…
Midnight Cowboy with Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. John Schlesinger’s 1969 socio-psychological drama Midnight Cowboy, one of the better best picture Oscar winners, will be screened as part of the…
Marni Nixon: Making Deborah Kerr, Natalie Wood, and Audrey Hepburn sound more melodious. Marni Nixon, the voice behind, among others, Deborah Kerr in The King and I and An Affair…
Woody Allen film to open Tribeca Film Festival: Whatever Works. The most recent Woody Allen film, Whatever Works, will open the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival on April 22. Whatever Works…
Agnieszka Holland film Total Eclipse with Leonardo DiCaprio. Directed by the Polish filmmaker perhaps best known for the World War II drama Europa Europa, Total Eclipse chronicles the troubled, love/hate…
The Thief of Bagdad 1924 with Douglas Fairbanks. At least nominally directed by Raoul Walsh, the Douglas Fairbanks production and United Artists release The Thief of Bagdad was in preparation/production…
Bob Hope. Although Bob Hope was one of the most popular American (though English-born) entertainers of the 20th century, I’ve always found him hard to swallow. So, why am I…
Disney Hand-Drawn Animation + Tex Avery & Michael Maltese & Production Design ‘Psychology & Science’
Disney hand-drawn animation: Ink & Paint Department, 1957. Image courtesy of Ann Guenther. Ink & Paint: The Art of Hand-Drawn Animation The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ new…
Cries and Whispers. Ingmar Bergman (right) will be the subject of a weekend-long salute – with the screening of five of his Academy Award-nominated and winning films – beginning Friday,…
Sex education film The Irresponsibles. The British Film Institute’s “The Joy of Sex Education” – to be presented at London’s bfi Southbank – consists of a series of British-made sex…
Brigitte Bardot: Douglas Kirkland’s pictures. One of the best-known subjects of celebrity (and later film set) photographer Douglas Kirkland was the iconic French star Brigitte Bardot. Long before she became…
The Golden Compass with Nicole Kidman as the powerful and (most likely) untrustworthy Mrs. Coulter. Is Chris Weitz’s bowdlerized film version of Phillip Pullman’s Northern Lights anti-Catholic and/or anti-Christian? In…
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