Ann-Margret Movies: From Elvis Presley leading lady to Oscar nominations for provocative Tommy and Carnal Knowledge.
Glenda Jackson: Labour MP and 2-Time Best Actress Oscar Winner will return to acting after two decades in British politics.
Ron Moody: Fagin in Oliver! Went From Charles Dickens to Walt Disney (and Mel Brooks) - But Strangely no star cameo in Harry Potter movies.
Dirk Bogarde. Dirk Bogarde: Victim star took no prisoners in his letters to Dilys Powell Letters exchanged between film critic Dilys Powell and actor Dirk Bogarde – one of the…
Ken Russell, best known for his movies featuring sex-starved nuns, nude male wrestling, “offensive” religious symbolism, and kaleidoscopic musical numbers, died Sunday, Nov. 27, ’11, in the United Kingdom. Russell…
Silvio Narizzano, best known for the Swinging London comedy-drama Georgy Girl, died July 26. Narizzano was 84. Based on Margaret Forster’s novel, and starring Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates, James Mason,…
Filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis, best known for the 1964 Oscar-nominated drama Zorba the Greek, died of complications from a heart attack and chronic respiratory problems early Monday at an Athens hospital.…
Julie Christie, easily one of the most compelling performers of the last half-century and an ardent political activist for liberal causes, has her day on Monday, Aug. 2, as part…
Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates in Silvio Narizzano’s Georgy Girl Lynn Redgrave died Sunday, May 2, ’10, at her home in Connecticut. She had been fighting breast cancer for seven years.…
The Rose with Bette Midler. Mark Rydell will take part in an onstage discussion following the 30th anniversary screening of The Rose on Friday, Sept. 25, at 7:30 p.m. at…
Harold Pinter Nobel Prize in Literature Winner: Fiery Anti-US and Anti-Iraq War Acceptance Speech called for the arrest of British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Director James Ivory’s producing partner Ismail Merchant has died Ismail Merchant, longtime movie producer and sometime director, died today in London. The cause of death was not immediately made available.…
John Frankenheimer and Dalton Trumbo’s anti-Semitism drama The Fixer is ruined by a preachy and simple-minded script, and by badly miscast lead Alan Bates.
Bryan Forbes. Bryan Forbes has died: Katharine Hepburn & Leslie Caron + the original ‘The Stepford Wives’ director Director Bryan Forbes, whose films include the then-daring The L-Shaped Room, the…
Jill Clayburgh in An Unmarried Woman. In my very personal view, the worst thing about 1980s American moviemaking isn’t the enormous success of adolescent trash like Return of the Jedi,…
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…