Phawker (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
BY DAN BUSKIRK, FILM CRITIC The synopsis sounds like it could be a reality TV episode: two couples, “real people” like me and you, flirt and switch partners during a summer outing by the lake. What sets this apart from Cheaters is that it was shot in the Berlin of 1929 and the [...]
Film of the Year (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
When does washing the dishes become a generator of fear? When it's shot in silhouette, of course. Yesterday I was feeling the post-war tensions mount in Fred Zinnemann's manhunt picture Act of Violence (1948) when I noticed how the most mundane of tasks can be manipulated to keep us in...
Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Famous Firsts Focusing on the debut feature work of famous, and infamous, figures of film Red River (1948) Director: Howard Hawks Debut film of: Montgomery Clift, actor By Roderick Heath A beautiful, young actor first appears on the screen in...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Arts & entertainment: Is film a young man's game? Three of this season's most intriguing movies are by directors well past 70
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Film News: Zinnemann Fund to protect, promote artists rights -- The Directors Guild of America and the Film Foundation have established the Zinnemann Fund -- named after the late director Fred Zinnemann -- to protect and promote artists' rights.
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: There Will Be Blood - Blu-ray -...
Nicholas Stix, Uncensored (Free subscription) | 03/30/2008
by Nicholas Stix July 12, 2004 Charley Malloy: Look, kid, I - how much you weigh, son? When you weighed one hundred and sixty-eight pounds you were beautiful. You coulda been another Billy Conn, and that skunk we got you for a manager, he brought you along too fast. Terry Malloy: It wasn't him, Charley, it was you. Remember that night in the Garden you came down to my dressing room and you said, "Kid,...
Marc Valdez Weblog (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008
(from the LA Times) Paul Scofield, one of the giants of the British stage who won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film "A Man for All Seasons," has died. He was 86. ...Considered one of the most talented actors of his generation, the tall, craggy-faced Scofield had a memorably rich voice that movie director Fred Zinnemann likened to the sound of "a Rolls-Royce being...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
On stage, the actor Paul Scofield, who has died aged 86, was braver than a lion. Off stage this genial man kept his private life quiet as a mouse.... [I]t was his voice that marked him out. It already...
Zap2it.com - News (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
British actor starred in 'A Man for All Seasons' Paul Scofield, one of the giants of the British stage who won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film "A Man for All Seasons," has died. He was 86.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 02/29/2008
Film News: Star of 'The Bank Job,' out on March 7 -- Saffron Burrows, star of “The Bank Job,” out on March 7
LIBERTAS (Free subscription) | 02/28/2008
Man for All Seasons, A (1966) - A devout scholar gets caught in the middle of Henry VIII’s plans to break with the Catholic Church. Cast: Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller. Dir: Fred Zinnemann.. C-120 mins, TV-PG I could gush all day about the actors and the director, but it's the brilliant, literate script that [...]
isrealli (Free subscription) | 02/26/2008
Israel's candidate for the ‘08 Academy Awards — Joseph Cedar’s Beaufort — was trumped by an Austrian film about the Holocaust. Too bad, right? But the Jersualem Post's Miriam Shaviv has an insightful take on why the staunch moral message of The Counterfeiters is anything but a loss for us Jewish types, [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
Vienna - Vienna's classic Gartenbau Cinema erupted into loud cheers and thundering applause at 4.40 am (0340 GMT) when in Los Angeles Oscar award presenter Penelope Cruz read out the surprise winner for best foreign film. Thus came to pass what many ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
LOS ANGELES -- "The Counterfeiters," the Austrian tale of a master forger forced to work for Nazis in a concentration camp, won the foreign-language Oscar on Sunday.
