A Talent For Trouble: The Life Of Hollywood's Most Acclaimed Director, William Wyler
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
If you didn't already know The Collector was written by two Saw franchise hacks, and directed by one of them, it would soon become as obvious as a fish hook to the face.
My Green Meadows (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
clipped from www.latimes.com There are movie stars and then there are movie stars — performers who have such a unique and often indescribable quality that their very name connotes the magic of the cinema. Audrey Hepburn was definitely a movie star. Hepburn has remained timeless. Her characters, her look and her persona seem as contemporary [...]
Draven99's Musings (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Every year we get a few horror films that get the horror-loving community excited. These movies are considered the cream of the crop and are often billed as the next great horror classic. Of course, this is hardly ever the case. However, while none of the have actually delivered on the lofty promises of their hype, they always bring something good to the table and always prove to be worth spending...
Cinema Viewfinder (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Joseph Wiseman was never a household name. Like any New York actor, he was equally adept in film, television, or theater. And like many Jewish actors of the time, he often played roles of other ethnicities in a less politically correct era. His most famous film role, was a brief appearance as the mysterious and eponymous half-Asian Bond villain of the first 007 film, Dr. No (1962). Brief appearance...
Show Tracker (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Oct. 18 - 14 in PDF format This week's TV Movies MUSIC MAN: 'Great Performances' features Gustavo Dudamel's debut as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducting Gustav Mahler's...
Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Joseph Wiseman, the very fine Montreal-born character actor who played the first cinematic James Bond supervillain, Dr. Julius No, has passed on at the age of 91. A highly accomplished stage performer, he apparently had little idea he was going to be involved in the launch of a major global phenomenon and didn’t have a [...]
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Oscar-winning editor Anne V. Coates will discuss her esteemed, ongoing career at the academy tonight. Anne V. Coates' uncle, famed British movie producer J. Arthur Rank ("The Red Shoes"), wasn't thrilled when he learned she wanted to join the family business as an editor. But she had discovered the magical power of cinema when she saw William Wyler's 1939 classic version of "Wuthering...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Those who hold to the American Film Institute’s view will assume the subject of this piece is Orson Welles, who, at the tender age of...
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Joseph Wiseman demonstrates the "palms up" gesture for Kirk Douglas and William Bendix in William Wyler's Detective Story, 1951; Michael Strong, behind Wiseman, is clearly impressed. One thing that readers new to Manny Farber ought to understand right off the...
Isak (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Let me be sure not to bury the lead: Go watch "The Celluloid Closet." The documentary, which draws from Vito Russo's 1981 book of the same name, looks closely at the history of homosexuality in film, from the earliest experimental Edison images to more contemporary movies. That the documentary is from 1995 makes it all the more fascinating, provoking one to reflect on what has and has not...
Simon Dyda (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Mae tri Chymro ac un Gymraes wedi ennill Gwobrau'r Academi . Mae rhai yn dweud pedwar Cymro, ond doedd Edmund Gwenn ddim yn Gymro fel mae rhai pobl yn honni ; hogyn o Lundain oedd o. 1945 - Actor Gorau Ray Milland o Gastell-nedd - The Lost Weekend ( Billy Wilder ) 1959 - Actor Ategol Gorau Hugh Griffith o Farianglas, Ynys Môn - Ben-Hur ( William Wyler ) 1991 - Actor Gorau Anthony Hopkins o Fargam,...
Show Tracker (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Sept. 27 - Oct. 3 in PDF format This week's TV Movies CREEPY: David Anders stars in the new made-for-TV remake of Stephen King's chilling short story 'Children of the...
lewrockwell.com (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Legit Reviews: Producer Franz Abraham attempts nothing less than a redefinition of large-scale 21st-century live entertainment.
Show Tracker (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
SERIES True Life: MTV offers a quartet of new episodes of its documentary series (1, 2, 3 and 4 p.m. MTV). Eco Company: This new series seeks to get kids into a greener frame of mind (2 p.m. KTLA). Law...
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