Robert Mitchum Movies: The Yakuza surprising casting and effectively cast against type in David Lean’s troubled Ryan’s Daughter with Sarah Miles.
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Honorary Oscar NON-winner Doris Day inexplicably snubbed by the Academy. Why? Other women include Danielle Darrieux, Liv Ullmann and Mia Farrow.
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Christopher Jones in Ryan’s Daughter. ‘Ryan’s Daughter’ actor Christopher Jones dead at 72: Quit acting after nervous breakdown resulting from Sharon Tate murder Christopher Jones, who had a key role …
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Dirk Bogarde. Dirk Bogarde: Victim star took no prisoners in his letters to Dilys Powell Letters exchanged between film critic Dilys Powell and actor Dirk Bogarde – one of the …
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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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John Mills. John Mills movies: Oscar-winning British actor Unfortunately, nine of the ten John Mills films to be shown on Turner Classic Movies as part of their month-long “Summer Under …
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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 …
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Blow-Up (movie 1966) review: In his ‘Swinging London’ masterwork, Michelangelo Antonioni questions the perception of reality. David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave star.
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Harold Pinter Nobel Prize in Literature Winner: Fiery Anti-US and Anti-Iraq War Acceptance Speech called for the arrest of British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Michelangelo Antonioni movies at LACMA “Modernist Master: Michelangelo Antonioni,” is the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (website) retrospective honoring the Italian filmmaker, whose body of work includes revered classics …
Michael Winner: Death Wish director. ‘Death Wish’ director Michael Winner has died Michael Winner, best remembered for directing the Charles Bronson action hit Death Wish, died earlier today at his …
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 …