(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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Featuring a superficial Denzel Washington as jailed U.S. boxer Rubin Carter, Norman Jewison’s contrived biopic The Hurricane is probably his worst film.
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?