2016 movies Things to Come (pictured) and Elle have earned French cinema icon Isabelle Huppert her – surprisingly – very first National Society of Film Critics Best Actress Award. 2016…
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Lifetime Achievement Award: Doris Day & long-running Honorary Oscar “snub.” Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award: Doris Day & Danielle Darrieux among Honorary Oscar non-recipients (See previous post: “Honorary Oscars Bypass Women:…
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Edouard Molinaro: La Cage aux Folles’ Oscar-nominated filmmaker. La Cage aux Folles director Edouard Molinaro collaborated with Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau & Orson Welles Edouard Molinaro, best known internationally for…
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European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award: Award-less veteran actress Danielle Darrieux. European Film Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award: Only three female recipients to date As mentioned in the previous post, French…
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Les Misérables with Eddie Redmayne and Amanda Seyfried. In Tom Hooper’s film version of the international stage musical hit based on Victor Hugo’s early-19th-century-set classic novel about the long &…
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Pinky movie with a “black” Jeanne Crain and Ethel Waters. Although absurdly miscast as a light-skinned part-white/part-black young woman whose grandmother is Ethel Waters, Jeanne Crain received a Best Actress…
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Stagecoach film: John Wayne, George Bancroft, and Louise Platt. Stagecoach is the next 1939 best picture Oscar nominee to be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts…
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Kwaidan. Sunday, June 8, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: Some consider Stagecoach, a rip-off of Guy de Maupassant’s “Boule de suif,” John Ford’s best film. Personally, despite a few good…
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Isabella Leong and Rainie Yang as lesbian lovers in Spider Lilies. The Speed of Life wins first Queer Lion: Early Venice Film Festival winners The Venice Film Festival’s first Queer…
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Alida Valli possessed a stern, aristocratic beauty: A wide face covered with dark, voluptuous hair, and featuring large, profoundly expressive green eyes that could convey with equal intensity either soulfulness…
Movie stars of the 1930s still alive: Best Actress Oscar winners Luise Rainer, Olivia de Havilland, Jennifer Jones, Barbra Streisand, and Meryl Streep, and other Oscar-winning actors and actresses at…
If Clark Gable was the King of Hollywood, then Tyrone Power was its – more handsome, more charming, more pleasant – Crown Prince. Allan Ellenberger has reported on and posted…
Sean Connery: Shirtless James Bond. Sean Connery to receive European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award Sean Connery, best known for being the big screen’s first James Bond, will receive the…