(See previous post: “Gay Pride Movie Series Comes to a Close: From Heterosexual Angst to Indonesian Coup.”) Ken Russell’s Valentino (1977) is notable for starring ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev as …
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Turner Classic Movies’ 2017 Gay Pride film series comes to a close this evening and tomorrow morning, Thursday–Friday, June 29–30, with the presentation of seven movies, hosted by TV interviewer …
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Jackie Collins Movies: Surprisingly Few Film Adaptations of Her Bestselling Sex Novels. 2 starred sister Joan Collins: The Stud and The Bitch.
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Jayne Meadows dead at 95: Minor Movie Actress Became Emmy-Nominated Television Celebrity and wife of TV personality Steve Allen.
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Martin Balsam: Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner for A Thousand Clowns. Martin Balsam: Oscar winner supported Joanne Woodward & Rod Steiger + Charles Bronson Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winner …
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Alec Guinness. Alec Guinness movies: Pre-‘Star Wars’ Guinness runs the gamut from Dickens’ Fagin to Japanese businessman romancing Rosalind Russell Alec Guinness is Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” …
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Bryan Forbes. Bryan Forbes has died: Katharine Hepburn & Leslie Caron + the original ‘The Stepford Wives’ director Director Bryan Forbes, whose films include the then-daring The L-Shaped Room, the …
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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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According to various online sources, Tasmanian-born director Don Sharp has died at age 89. A former small-time actor (The Planter’s Wife, The Cruel Sea), Sharp (born April 19, 1922, in …
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Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire. Marlon Brando movies on TCM Marlon Brando is the first star in the 2011 edition of Turner Classic Movies’ annual …
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Susannah York in Robert Altman’s Images. Susannah York, one of the best (and best-looking) performers of the 1960s and 1970s, died today. York’s son, Orlando Wells (the Duke of Kent …
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Joe Mantell in Marty, with Ernest Borgnine. Low-budget Delbert Mann comedy-drama was the Best Picture Oscar and Palme d’Or winner of 1955. Joe Mantell, who died at age 94 on …
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Lee Remick. Great news for Lee Remick fans: eleven of her movies will be shown on Thursday, Aug. 26, on Turner Classic Movies. Remick Day is part of TCM’s “Summer …
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Ida Lupino. Ida Lupino, one of the top Warner Bros. stars of the 1940s, will have her “Summer Under the Stars” day on Thursday, Aug. 27. More than a second-rank …
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Ken Annakin, best remembered for directing the big-budget 1965 adventure comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, died on April 22 at his home in Beverly Hills. Like fellow …
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Rashomon effect revisited: Toshiro Mifune and Machiko Kyo in Akira Kurosawa classic. Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic Rashomon, which officially introduced Japanese cinema to the world at large, will be the …
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Francesco Rosi political drama Salvatore Giuliano. This year’s Berlin Film Festival will present the Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement to the unabashedly political Italian filmmaker Francesco Rosi, 85, on Feb. …
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Satirical novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr, author of the bestselling anti-war novel Slaughterhouse-Five, died Wednesday, April 11. According to his wife, photographer Jill Krementz, Vonnegut had suffered brain injuries after a …
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Doctor Zhivago theme: Lara & the Russian Revolution When bigger isn’t exactly better: Doctor Zhivago – despite its classic music theme – is no masterpiece. Bloated and overlong, it fails …
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The Hurricane (movie 1999) review: Featuring a superficial Denzel Washington as jailed U.S. boxer Rubin Carter, Norman Jewison’s contrived real-life-based drama is probably his worst.
Norma Bengell and John Herbert in As Cariocas. Norma Bengell: Iconic (and controversial) Brazilian film, stage & TV star made history as first actress seen naked (full frontal) in a …
Sara Montiel Sara Montiel: Legendary Spanish movie and recording superstar Sara Montiel, a.k.a. Sarita Montiel a.k.a. Saritisima, one of the Spanish-speaking world’s biggest film and recording stars, died yesterday, April …
Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Sidney Lumet, Murder on the Orient Express. Among Lumet’s most notable big-screen efforts are the U.S. justice system dramas 12 Angry Men and The Verdict; the …
Claire Bloom, one of the most talented and most striking actresses of her generation, will have her “Summer Under the Stars” day on Monday, Aug. 31. Handpicked by Charles Chaplin …
Most shocking movie moments: Charles Chaplin goes murderous in the dark comedy-drama Monsieur Verdoux, with Martha Raye. Most shocking movie moments: Martha Raye eclipses murderous Charles Chaplin in ‘Monsieur Verdoux’ In The …
Documentary or docudrama? Is it possible to pinpoint the line separating fiction from one recent Oscar winner’s extensive use of reenactments?