Festival of Legends: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Peter Yarrow in Murray Lerner Oscar-Nominated Folk Music Documentary.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Agnieszka Holland Movies: Controversial Polish Filmmaker Retrospective at MoMA with screening of Best Actress Oscar nominee Sally Kirkland in Anna.
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The Thief of Bagdad 1924: Douglas Fairbanks’ classic was 1 of costliest silent films + rumored to have had leading lady replaced by actor’s jealous wife.
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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…
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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,…
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Sex Education Film Class courtesy of the BFI + Glasgow Bette Davis Tribute and Woody Allen thriller + Evolution of Russian Cinema from Eisenstein to Sokurov.
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The Golden Compass irks US Catholic Archbishop & Vatican newspaper while Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis to show up Moonstruck 20th anniversary screening.
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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The Talmadge Sisters Norma and Constance: Unfairly neglected silent era superstars return in sophisticated comedies Her Sister from Paris and Kiki.
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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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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…
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Gene Hackman Night Moves: 1975 neo-noir movie by Arthur Penn screening as part of Academy tribute to the 3-time Best Director Oscar nominee.
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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…
Douglas Kirkland’s Pictures: Brigitte Bardot and The Sound of Music actresses Charmian Carr and Angela Cartwright + check out Judy Garland miniature Oscar.
‘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: Evangelical Christian con men exposed in Sarah Kernochan and Howard Smith Oscar-Winning documentary with future Earthquake actor Marjoe Gortner.
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…