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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The 2006 Seoul Film Festival came to a close this past Sunday, Sept. 17. The Best Film winner in the International Competition section was Sebastián Camposs dramatic comedy La Sagrada…
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Viacom vs. Tom Cruise Hardly “alternative film” news, and hardly “news,” period, at this point … … But after 14 years of marriage, Paramount – following orders from 83-year-old Viacom…
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Male rape: Tom Long in The Book of Revelation. Male Rape in controversial ‘The Book of Revelation’ Based on Rupert Thomson’s novel, the psychological thriller The Book of Revelation opened…
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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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Harold Lloyd Rare Pictures: Academy Exhibition Showcases Silent Era ‘comic genius’ in rarely seen photos in front of and behind camera.
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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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Prolific author James Robert Parish answers a few questions about his latest tome, The Hollywood Book of Breakups. Unlike his previous book, Fiasco: A History of Hollywood’s Iconic Flops, an…
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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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Géla Babluani’s thriller 13 Tzameti, winner of the World Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, offers a relentlessly bleak – and downright exploitive – look at…
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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…
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In Anthony Mann’s action-packed B film noir Desperate, the lights don’t have to go out for danger to strike. When a clean-cut delivery man (Steve Brodie) gets accidentally involved in a…
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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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Bette Davis in Mr. Skeffington, directed by Vincent Sherman. Vincent Sherman dead at 99: Director guided Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Ida Lupino (image: Bette Davis in ‘Mr. Skeffington’) Vincent Sherman,…
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Tonight is the Academy Tribute to Olivia de Havilland (who will turn 90 on July 1). According to the Academy’s press release, the tribute “will feature film clips from many…
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Two-time Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker Shohei Imamura died in Tokyo on May 30. The 79-year-old Japanese filmmaker had been suffering from liver cancer. Born in Tokyo in 1926, Imamura entered a…
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Robert Sterling, the handsome leading man of several 1940s B movies and the star of the TV series Topper, died of natural causes at his home in the Los Angeles…
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A few recommendations for those who watch Turner Classic Movies: The beautifully photographed (and tinted) 1921 Cecil B. DeMille sex drama The Affairs of Anatol stars Wallace Reid as the…
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Jane Birkin. Jane Birkin Style: Birkin to direct, write, star in autobiopic According to London’s Sunday Times (May 14), Jane Birkin, “whose career highlights include simulating sex in the song…
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‘Fiasco’ & Hollywood flops: Q&A with author James Robert Parish
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Rudolph Valentino death, funeral, and legacy discussed in new book: The Valentino Mystique Allan R. Ellenberger‘s meticulously researched The Valentino Mystique: The Death and Afterlife of the Silent Film Idol…
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Rudolph Valentino profile by James Steffen on TCM: “The breakthrough film for Valentino was Rex Ingram’s The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921). The World War I melodrama, based on…
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Considering the immigration debate in the U.S. (and elsewhere) and the May 1 day of boycotts and protests, I figured it would be a good time to recommend five films…
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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…
Male power in early 20th century Made in 1919, the year before women gained the right to vote in the United States, the ultimately disappointing (and sleep-inducing) Phil-for-Short tells the…
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…
Sherrybaby, Maggie Gyllenhaal among this year’s Karlovy Vary Film Festival winners. Best Actress Gyllenhaal plays an ex-convict trying to rebuild her life.
Fabián Bielinsky dead at 47: Second (and last) feature film, ‘The Aura,’ was screened a few days ago at the Los Angeles Film Festival Argentinean filmmaker Fabián Bielinsky has died…
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…
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…
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…