Little Fugitive director Morris Engel was the post-WWII ‘Father of American Independent Cinema,’ inspiring John Cassavetes and the French New Wave.
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Charles Durning. Charles Durning: Oscar-nominated & Tony-winning actor has died Charles Durning, who romanced Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie, a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nominee for The Best Little Whorehouse…
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Jack Klugman and Tony Randall: The Odd Couple. Jack Klugman dead at 90: ‘The Odd Couple’ & ‘Quincy M.E.’ actor Jack Klugman, best known for the television series The Odd…
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Ernest Borgnine dead at 95: villain at his best in befuddled roles Ernest Borgnine, a movie villain who won a Best Actor Academy Award for playing a kindly butcher in…
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Ben Gazzara, who was featured on Broadway in the original Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and in movies by the likes of John Cassavetes, Otto Preminger, and Peter Bogdanovich,…
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Model and sometime actress Doe Avedon Siegel, best known for her marriages to photographer Richard Avedon and to Dirty Harry movie director Don Siegel, died Sunday in Los Angeles. She…
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Doris Day may have been – once again – absurdly bypassed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors, but at least she’ll be getting some…
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Peter Falk: Two-time Oscar nominee. Peter Falk, the two-time Oscar nominee best known for playing television police detective Columbo, died Thursday, June 23, at his Beverly Hills home. Falk, who…
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Tod Maitland, Dennis Maitland, Norman Jewison at the 45th Cinema Audio Society Awards Production Sound Mixer Dennis Maitland, who collaborated with the likes of John Cassavetes, Barbra Streisand, Sydney Pollack,…
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Roman Polanski and Martin Scorsese mystery thrillers are Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear entries in addition to latest Mirjana Karanovic movie.
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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,…
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A few weeks ago, when I began watching a screener of director-screenwriter-etc-etc. Brian Pera’s The Way I See Things, I had no idea what to expect. At first, I wasn’t…
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William Castle and the Rosemary’s Baby ‘curse.’ William Castle was a director of B movie thrillers such as those in two popular franchises of the 1940s starring faded stars of…
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has just begun an homage to Hungarian director Béla Tarr, which runs until March 28. Titled “Reel Epics: The Films of Béla Tarr,”…
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Breathless (movie 1960) review: Is Jean-Luc Godard’s iconic and hugely influential nouvelle vague film noir homage a vastly overrated classic? Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg star.
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NSFC Awards surprise: A Clint Eastwood melodrama is the unexpectedly mainstream winner of the generally more ‘esoteric’ U.S.-based critics group.
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Faces (movie 1968) review: John Cassavetes’ landmark and widely admired independent drama is a narrative trainwreck and a long-winded cinematic chore. John Marley stars.
Mia Farrow Twitpic shows far-right US presidential candidate Rick Santorum as he Bores Kids to Sleep. Despite 50+ films, Farrow has no Oscar nomination.
Joan Blondell biography: A Life Between Takes. Joan Blondell. Those who have heard the name will most likely picture either a blowsy, older woman playing the worldwise but warm-hearted saloon…
Judy Garland movies: Meet Me in St. Louis. Judy Garland vehicles are a Turner Classic Movies staple, so the “Summer Under the Stars” day – Thursday, Aug. 6 – dedicated…
Robert Evans with Rosemary’s Baby producer William Castle and lead actress Mia Farrow on the set of Roman Polanski’s classic 1968 horror thriller. “An Academy Salute to Robert Evans” will…
A Woman Under the Influence (movie 1974) review: John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands’ psychological drama is irreparably marred by its own fake ‘rawness.’