Lillian Gish: The Birth of a Nation actress enmeshed in Bowling Green University controversy. Should Lillian Gish be labeled a racist because at age 21 she had one of the…
James Garner. James Garner movies: ‘Grand Prix’ & ‘Victor Victoria’ among TCM highlights James Garner, whose film and television career spanned more than five decades, died of “natural causes” at…
San Francisco Symphony & Cary Grant in ‘North by Northwest.’ San Francisco Symphony salutes Alfred Hitchcock: Halloween movies and Hitchcock movie music The San Francisco Symphony will celebrate Alfred Hitchcock…
Eva Marie Saint: Actress has gone from Marlon Brando & Cary Grant to Superman As found in Arthur Spiegelman’s 2006 Reuters article “Eva Marie Saint won’t look back,” the Oscar-winning…
TCM Cruise group photo (click on the image to enlarge it), from left to right: Bruce Goldstein, New York Film Forum; film critic Alonso Duralde; Harold Lloyd’s granddaughter Suzanne Lloyd;…
Rudolph Valentino in ‘Blood and Sand’ Rudolph Valentino Movies: ‘Blood and Sand,’ starring Hollywood’s foremost Latin Lover, at the Hollywood Heritage Museum The Hollywood Heritage Museum will celebrate the birthday…
Irvin Kershner, the director of the most watchable early Star Wars saga effort, The Empire Strikes Back (1980), has died in Los Angeles. Kershner was 87. What makes The Empire Strikes…
Goldie Hawn, Whoopi Goldberg, Anjelica Huston, Penélope Cruz, Tilda Swinton, and Eva Marie Saint. “This is not going to be 45 seconds, I can say that right now,” said best…
Douglas Fairbanks in The Iron Mask. Last Remaining Seats: North by Northwest & Roman Holiday The Los Angeles Conservancy (website) will present the 21st Annual Last Remaining Seats film series…
Because of Winn-Dixie movie: Wayne Wang’s whimsical + sentimental Girl and Her Dog story lacks genuine feeling. Veteran Eva Marie Saint + Jeff Daniels are acting highlights.
Dorothy McGuire, Gregory Peck, Gentleman’s Agreement Elia Kazan: Actors Director Elia Kazan is best remembered today for two things: his association with Marlon Brando during the first half of the…
White couple, black baby: Sophie Okonedo as black daughter of white parents in Skin Winner of four audience awards, including at the AFI Dallas and Santa Barbara film festivals, Skin…
A Hatful of Rain movie review: Like a number of other stage-to-film transfers of the 1950s, Fred Zinnemann’s 1957 big-screen version of Michael V. Gazzo’s Broadway play about an all-American…