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 ……
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A complete retrospective of Hollywood director Rouben Mamoulian (1897–1987), one of cinema’s greatest stylists and innovators, will run at New York City’s Film Forum from Friday, Sept. 7, through Tuesday,…
Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises. Viggo Mortensen Shirtless and Tattooed: London Film Festival Opening Gala David Cronenberg’ London-set thriller Eastern Promises will open this year’s Times BFI 51st London Film…
The Color Purple with Whoopi Goldberg. Whoopi Goldberg will be the special guest at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Monday Nights with Oscar” screening of Steven Spielberg’s…
New York City’s Film Forum is presenting an unusual film series this spring 2007: Low(er)-budget classic musicals from the 1930s to the early 1950s. In those films you won’t find…
Star Wars with Alec Guinness and Mark Hamill. Part four of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Great To Be Nominated” series will kick off on Monday, April 23,…
The Talmadge Sisters: Constance Talmadge in Her Sister from Paris. Adapted to the screen by frequent Ernst Lubitsch collaborator Hanns Kräly, Sidney Franklin’s 1925 comedy Her Sister from Paris is…
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…
Film Forum, the New York City institution that about a year ago presented the Paramount Before the Code film series, will be presenting Pre-Code movies from Fox – Fox Before…
Night Moves movie with Gene Hackman. Arthur Penn directed. Gene Hackman in ‘Night Moves’ movie: Arthur Penn Academy tribute The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will host a…
Isabelle Huppert film series at MoMA Isabelle Huppert, one of the best film actresses of the last three decades, is the subject of a MoMA retrospective at New York City’s…
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…
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…
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…
‘Porgy and Bess’: Rare movie version of George Gershwin musical New York screening The Samuel Goldwyn-produced, Otto Preminger-directed 1959 musical Porgy and Bess “was a much-touted, much-seen and in some…
Marjoe Gortner, “Evangelism’s answer to Mick Jagger,” as seen in the poster of the 1972 documentary Marjoe. Sarah Kernochan and Howard Smith’s Oscar-winning film about Evangelical Christian scammers shows how…
Pola Negri in Madame Dubarry / Passion with Emil Jannings. New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (website) is currently presenting “Pola Negri: Life Is a Dream,” a week-long retrospective on…