Antarctic exploration with Sir Ernest Shackleton. Antarctic exploration ‘epic’: ‘South’ It was surprising to see the large crowd waiting to get into the 2012 San Francisco Silent Film Festival screening of South: Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Glorious Epic of the Antarctic…
William A. Wellman
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Jean Harlow in Libeled Lady with William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy. Turner Classic Movies’ Jean Harlow film series continues this evening with four of Harlow’s MGM vehicles – Bombshell, Personal Property, Reckless, and Libeled Lady – and one…
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Steven Spielberg ‘Jaws’ Oscar Shock + Other Non-Nominated Directors: Biggest Oscar Snubs
by Andre S.Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard in Mutiny on the Bounty 1962: Veteran director Lewis Miletone bypassed. Previous post: Biggest Oscar Snubs: Michael Nyman for The Piano, Lee Smith for Inception, Gordon Willis for The Godfather, and Caleb Deschanel for The…
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Adolphe Menjou, Lionel Stander, Fredric March, Janet Gaynor in William A. Wellman’s A Star Is Born (top); March in William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives (bottom) Fredric March, Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month, can be seen…
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‘Crossfire’ Movie: Bleak Post-War Mood in Anti-Semitism Drama + Joan Fontaine-Charles Boyer Rarity Revisited
by Andre S.Crossfire movie. Directed by Edward Dmytryk, written by John Paxton, and produced by Adrian Scott, Crossfire (1947) will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Oscar Noir: 1940s Writing Nominees from…
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‘The Godfather’ Movies & Ray Harryhausen Classics + Early Alfred Hitchcock Output Needs Restoration
by Andre S.The Godfather movies: Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 The Godfather. This week at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation’s in Culpeper, Va.: John Cusack stars in Stephen Frears’ comedy High Fidelity…
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Batjac Blockbuster: John Wayne Air Disaster + Not-All-That-Great Bob Fosse & Martin Scorsese Classics
by Andre S.John Wayne Centennial Screening In celebration of John Wayne’s centennial, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will premiere a new restoration of The High and the Mighty (1954), an airborne disaster-about-to-happen melodrama. Made by Wayne-Fellows Productions, co-owned by…
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Thomas Edison ‘Frankenstein’ 1910 Owner Found Dead + ‘The High and the Mighty’ Collector’s DVD
by Andre S.Thomas Edison ‘Frankenstein’ 1910 owner Alois F. Dettlaff found dead Alois F. Dettlaff, the film archivist responsible for preserving the only surviving print of Thomas Edison’s 1910 film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, was found dead in the bathroom of…
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John Wayne DVD Collection: Rarely Seen All-Star ‘Disaster’ Blockbuster + Shakespeare Goes West
by Andre S.John Wayne DVD collection: The High and the Mighty stars the Stagecoach actor as a former airline pilot and compulsive whistler tormented by the memory of a plane crash for which he held himself responsible and that had killed everybody…