In Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s ‘best bad movie,’ The Barefoot Contessa, Ava Gardner exudes a magnetic - and underrated - mix of glamour and charisma.
William Cameron Menzies. William Cameron Menzies movies on TCM: Murderous Joan Fontaine, deadly Nazi Communists Best known as an art director/production designer, William Cameron Menzies was a jack-of-all-trades. It seems…
Howard Hughes movies: The Aviator with Leonardo DiCaprio. Howard Hughes movies Turner Classic Movies will be showing the Howard Hughes-produced, John Farrow-directed, Baja California-set gangster drama His Kind of Woman,…
‘What Is the Tea Party?’Morgan Freeman accuses far-right Republican group of racism: ‘Dolphin Tale’ Box Office Affected? Morgan Freeman, Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winner for Million Dollar Baby, accused…
Warren Beatty in Dick Tracy with Madonna. June 22 update: Warren Beatty used to be known as a Ladies’ Man. Before Annette Bening, there were stories about Natalie Wood, Leslie…
George Eastman House movie ‘The Reckless Moment’: Crime drama with James Mason and Joan Bennett. George Eastman House movies: Max Ophüls dramas ‘The Reckless Moment’ and ‘Caught’ Located in Rochester,…
Eugène Lourié homage: Adrienne Corri (Mrs. Alexander in A Clockwork Orange) in Jean Renoir’s 1951 drama The River. The Art Directors Guild (ADG) Film Society and the American Cinematheque (AC)…
Master and Commander movie: Russell Crowe in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Peter Weir’s 2003 Best Picture nominee Master and Commander: The Far Side of the…
As weirdo billionaire Howard Hughes, Leonardo DiCaprio Is both fully convincing and badly miscast in Martin Scorsese’s overblown biopic The Aviator.
Howard Hughes: Billionaire spent a number of years in Hollywood. If all goes as planned, Warren Beatty will be the next big-screen Howard Hughes, following The Aviator‘s Leonardo DiCaprio. In…
As the title implies, BearManor Media’s The History of Independent Cinema covers the century-long development of – American – filmmaking outside the big-studio lots. Now, who were those independents? Well,…