In Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s ‘best bad movie,’ The Barefoot Contessa, Ava Gardner exudes a magnetic - and underrated - mix of glamour and charisma.
Danielle Darrieux in ‘La Ronde.’ Film icon Danielle Darrieux turns 100: Longest ‘star career’ in movie history? Screen legend Danielle Darrieux is turning 100 today, May 1. In all likelihood,…
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:…
Maximilian Schell. Maximilian Schell: Best Actor Oscar winner for ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’ has died Actor and filmmaker Maximilian Schell, best known for his Oscar-winning performance as the defense attorney in…
The Emigrants with Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow. From the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, the New York Film Critics Circle handed out top awards to a couple of…
Jennifer Jones in Portrait of Jennie: one of Luis Buñuel’s favorite films. Best Actress Oscar winner Jennifer Jones dead at 90: Best remembered for her portrayals of troubled, complex women…
Audrey Hepburn movies all day on Tuesday, Aug. 11, on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Hepburn is the day’s “Summer Under the Stars” movie star. (See Audrey Hepburn Movie Schedule further…
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…
Golden Globes’ hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler (photo © HFPA). Tina Fey and Amy Poehler funny & daring enough at the 2014 Golden Globes telecast? Acting as a lighter…
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…