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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On the heels of Vanity
Fair's November cover story featuring actress Amy Adams as film icon Rita
Hayworth, the 11th Arpa International Film Festival announces a 90th
birthday screening of Hayworth's breakout film, 1941's "Blood and Sand."
The screening will take place at 8pm on Saturday, October 25 at the
Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Arpa festival director,...
"[T]here are more than enough names to be going on with: Balanchine, Stravinsky, Koussevitsky, Toscanini, Stokowski, Kurt Weill and Rouben Mamoulian are only the most prominent," writes Clive James, reviewing Joseph Horowitz's Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century...
Absolutely sublime dancing with Fred Astaire, above , in The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli 1953) and Silk Stockings (Rouben Mamoulian 1957). Equally well matched with Gene Kelly in Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen 1952), Brigadoon (Minnelli 1954), and It’s Always Fair Weather (Kelly & Donen 1955). Two spectacular solo numbers in Party Girl (Nicholas Ray 1958). Striking even in a non-dancing...
As a fan of Rouben Mamoulian's films (someone once referred to me as an apologist), I was obviously thrilled to finally get my hands on a DVD of his second film, City Streets. Released in 1931, this pre-code gangster/romance flick...
One of the things I like about Zorro is that he gets to make fools of corrupt authority figures. Moral relativity? Here's Tyrone Power chatting up Basil Rathbone in my favorite film version of the popular legend, THE MARK OF ZORRO (1940) Rouben Mamoulian's stylishly mounted period adventure. Franco would present a female Zorro (Lina Romay) in his own LES NONNES EN FOLIE. There will be a review of the...
1933 saw the release of a great trio of Warner Bros. musicals with production numbers designed by the great Busby Berkeley . The first of these movies was 42ND STREET and the last FOOTLIGHT PARADE . In the middle came GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933. GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 is, in some ways, the ultimate Depression-era musical. It vividly illustrates the struggles of the Depression, from the hungry actresses who...
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Rouben Mamoulian was a great cinematic innovator in the early 1930s, when he made a string of masterpieces. By the time he made this film, in 1939, his years of innovation were over, but his later films retain a...
The Reel Jane Austen series at the Kansas City Public Library will examine how Austen's work has been translated to the screen for different times and diverse audiences.
1. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang, 2006) 2. The Man from London (Béla Tarr) 3. Longing (Valeska Grisebach, 2006) 4. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg) 5. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien) 6. Ratatouille (Brad Bird) 7. Still Life (Jia Zhangke, 2006) 8. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas) 9. No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen) 10. Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel, 2005) First...
Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 25By and Steve Luber and Robert Viagas 25 Nov 2007 1882 U.S. premiere of Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta Iolanthe, about fairies and other supernatural folk who get involved with Parliamentary peers. 1882 U.S. premiere of Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta Iolanthe, about fairies and other supernatural folk who get involved with Parliamentary peers.1907 Caesar and Cleopatra,...
Finally Criterion/Eclipse's Lubisch Musicals Box Set has a release date (February 2008). No extras, but four early sound musicals from Paramount (Lubitsch's last musical, The Merry Widow , was made for MGM and will have to wait for a release from Warner Brothers), all starring Maurice Chevalier and/or Jeanette MacDonald. Lubitsch was a very important figure in the history of movie musicals -- The Love...
We're on to the next tune in our little Spooktacular and this one is straight from the mind of Robert Louis Stevenson and his 1886 novella The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr. Hyde. To quote from Wikipedia, "The work is known for its vivid portrayal of the psychopathology of a split personality; in mainstream culture the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" has come to signify wild or bipolar behavior."...
Running Oct. 4-17, the 43rd Chicago International Film Festival will bring to town a string of visiting actors and directors, among them Anthony Hopkins, Ben and Casey Affleck, Jeffrey Wright and Laura Linney. But the opening-night gala will honor one of Chicago's own, longtime Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert, who, more than anyone, represents the image and the heart of eclectic American moviegoing around...
Rouben Mamoulian's second film City Streets (1931), with a screenplay by Dashiel Hammett, screened yesterday at Film Forum as part of a larger Mamoulian retrospective. In it Gary Cooper plays a straight arrow and sharp shooting carnival man who is roped into the mob when his girlfriend is framed for a murder committed by her bootlegging father. Mamoulian famously remarked that the film contains 10...
