Atlas Shrugged: Part I movie box office: First segment in a proposed big-screen trilogy based on Ayn Rand’s objectivist novel is a box office bomb. Taylor Schilling and Grant Bowler star.
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The Gay Divorcee: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musical. It’s too bad I’m posting this a little too late, as the Library of Congress’ Packard Campus Theater welcomed the year…
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Clara Bow, known as the “It” Girl, stars in the appropriately titled It. Part III of Moguls & Movie Stars, A History of Hollywood, “The Dream Merchants,” narrated by Christopher…
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Marion Davies in King Vidor’s Show People. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which decades ago was the most financially stable of the Hollywood studios, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday. MGM – initially…
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House / Hausu by Nobuhiko Obayashi. Schedule and synopses from the American Cinematheque website. Wednesday, September 23 - 7:30 PM Japanese Cult Classics Double Feature: HOUSE (HAUSU), 1977, Janus Films,…
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Denise Darcel. Cinecon 45 is currently taking place at the Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. The (old & mostly rare) film marathon ends late Monday afternoon. Thus far, the 2009…
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Starring Judy Garland and directed by Victor Fleming, the 1939 Best Picture nominee The Wizard of Oz will be screened, digitally from a new 4K restoration, as the final feature…
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The 13th annual Kansas Silent Film Festival (KSFF) will be held on Feb. 27 and 28, 2009, at the White Concert Hall on the Washburn University campus in Topeka, Kansas.…
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The Man Who Laughs with Conrad Veidt and Olga Baclanova. The 13th San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF), to be held at the Castro Theater throughout the July 11-13 weekend,…
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Barbara Stanwyck in The Furies. “A Lady to Talk About: The Films of Barbara Stanwyck” is the title of the retrospective being presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive…
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How to Sell Your Soul: Must-See Long-Thought-Lost Classic Resurfaces in Restored Print as TCM presents Eleanor Boardman in Hollywood-set comedy-drama.
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Brazilian cinema at MoMA Brazilian cinema will return to New York City’s Museum of Modern Art in July. MoMA will be presenting the third edition of “Premiere Brazil!” between July…
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Ruth Hussey. Ruth Hussey: 1940s MGM actress remembered Ruth Hussey, a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominee for George Cukor’s The Philadelphia Story, died at age 93 on April 19…
John Gilbert and Greta Garbo in Flesh and the Devil. Just a few days ago I was wondering if Turner Classic Movies would devote a day to the likes of…
The Fall of the House of Usher (top); John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman in Bardelys the Magnificent (middle); Douglas Fairbanks, Lupe Velez in The Gaucho (bottom) Douglas Fairbanks, John Gilbert,…
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…