Celebrities in the 1930 Census Q&A: Greta Garbo, Gangsters Go Missing while Marie Dressler and Mae West Find Fountain of Youth.
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Sex Education Film Class courtesy of the BFI + Glasgow Bette Davis Tribute and Woody Allen thriller + Evolution of Russian Cinema from Eisenstein to Sokurov.
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A complete retrospective of Hollywood director Rouben Mamoulian (1897–1987), one of cinema’s greatest stylists and innovators, will run at New York City’s Film Forum from Friday, Sept. 7, through Tuesday,…
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Back in the late 1920s, Anita Page could never have dreamed that eight decades later she would be a celebrity of sorts: The Official Last Surviving Silent Film Star. In…
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Movies with gay characters: A fey Charles Laughton as Nero, plus Claudette Colbert and Fredric March in The Sign of the Cross. Inspired by Richard Barrios’ book Screened Out: Playing Gay…
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One of the highlights of this year’s San Sebastian International Film Festival (website) is a mouth-wateringly thorough Ernst Lubitsch Retrospective. (Image: Angel, with Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, and Melvyn Douglas.)…
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The Hard Way with Joan Leslie and Ida Lupino. ‘The Hard Way’ movie at the American Cinematheque: Director Vincent Sherman homage On Tuesday, Aug. 8, at 7:30 p.m., the American…
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Glamorous Actresses Carole Lombard and Mae West and Marlene Dietrich + Cecil B. DeMille DVD sets offer rare + racy and historically significant classics.
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Joel McCrea. Joel McCrea movies: LACMA’s ‘Centenary Tribute’ to Old Hollywood star Joel McCrea, the star of numerous light comedies, melodramas, and Westerns from the early the 1930s to the…
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Anne Bancroft, Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate dead at 73 Anne Bancroft, Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate and the longtime wife of Mel Brooks, died of uterine cancer on July…
Psychological movies: Movies on the Mind since Sigmund Freud “I don’t believe it’s possible to graphically represent the abstract nature of our thinking in a respectable form,” said Sigmund Freud.…
Bette Davis in Mr. Skeffington, directed by Vincent Sherman. Vincent Sherman dead at 99: Director guided Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Ida Lupino (image: Bette Davis in ‘Mr. Skeffington’) Vincent Sherman,…
Film Forum screenings: Claudette Colbert & Mae West + Gary Cooper Paramount Pre-Code classics “Paramount Before the Code,” consisting of more than 40 classics, semi-classics, and forgotten gems from Hollywood’s…
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