Luis Buñuel Movies: Subversive, Challenging Viridiana (‘blasphemous’ according to the Vatican) and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
Maximilian Schell. Maximilian Schell: Best Actor Oscar winner for ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’ has died Actor and filmmaker Maximilian Schell, best known for his Oscar-winning performance as the defense attorney in…
Deborah Raffin: Movie & TV actress + Dove audio-book entrepreneur dead at 59 Deborah Raffin, film and television actress, and Dove Books on Tape co-founder, at age 59 on Nov.…
Andrew Sarris, auteur theory proponent in the U.S., died earlier today at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan, apparently of complications caused by a stomach virus. Sarris, who was 83, was…
Elizabeth Taylor movies: A Place in the Sun with Montgomery Clift. Elizabeth Taylor can be found in 11 movies to be presented on Turner Classic Movies on Monday, Aug. 23,…
Joseph Losey 1963 classic The Servant with Dirk Bogarde and James Fox. Sarah Miles also stars. “Among the greatest things that happened to British cinema were the arrival on our…
Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie, with Jack Lemmon. Saturday, June 14, highlights on Turner Classic Movies include The Third Man and several Walter Matthau movies: Many consider The Third…
Maggie Smith in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, based on a novel by Muriel Spark. ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ author Muriel Spark dead at 88 Scottish-born writer…
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.…
John Howard Lawson Remembered “First Writers Guild president. Playwright. Screenwriter. Oscar nominee. Organizer. Teacher. ‘Premature antiracist.’ Blacklistee. ‘Dean of the Hollywood Ten.’ Jailbird. ‘Tinseltown’s cultural commissar.’ Film theorist. ‘Grand Pooh-Bah…