When Bernard Hill died recently, I wrote about the unique feeling accompanying the real-life death of an actor when that actor has been especially associated with a dramatic death scene onscreen. That feeling is only magnified when it’s been a very long time since the actor performed the demise in question. Juanita Moore, with her character’s funeral in 1959’s “Imitation of Life” being the grandest of any in the movies, only dying in real life in 2013 is an example.
One of the most extreme of these has just occurred, a death that also represents the severing of another critical link to Old Hollywood. Darryl Hickman died this past Wednesday, May 22, at the age of 92. He was a child actor in “The Prisoner of Zenda” and John Ford’s “The Grapes of Wrath” who, upon exiting his teenage years, decided he wanted to become a monk. He entered a...
One of the most extreme of these has just occurred, a death that also represents the severing of another critical link to Old Hollywood. Darryl Hickman died this past Wednesday, May 22, at the age of 92. He was a child actor in “The Prisoner of Zenda” and John Ford’s “The Grapes of Wrath” who, upon exiting his teenage years, decided he wanted to become a monk. He entered a...
- 5/27/2024
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
Darryl Hickman, a child actor in Leave Her to Heaven and The Grapes of Wrath, died at 92 on Wednesday, May 22, his family said. No cause was given.
Hickman appeared in more than 40 films, having been a contract player at Paramount and MGM.
He portrayed the youngest member of the Joad family, Winfield, in John Ford’s 1940 adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath, as well as a role as the younger version of Van Heflin’s character in the 1946 noir, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.
In 1945’s Leave Her to Heaven, Hickman played Danny, younger brother to Cornel Wilde’s Richard. Danny was disabled by polio and when he comes to live with Richard and his wife, Ellen (Gene Tierney). He drowns by Ellen’s hand in the middle of a lake due to jealousy of Richard’s affection for the boy.
In 1951, he briefly retired from acting to enter a monastery,...
Hickman appeared in more than 40 films, having been a contract player at Paramount and MGM.
He portrayed the youngest member of the Joad family, Winfield, in John Ford’s 1940 adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath, as well as a role as the younger version of Van Heflin’s character in the 1946 noir, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.
In 1945’s Leave Her to Heaven, Hickman played Danny, younger brother to Cornel Wilde’s Richard. Danny was disabled by polio and when he comes to live with Richard and his wife, Ellen (Gene Tierney). He drowns by Ellen’s hand in the middle of a lake due to jealousy of Richard’s affection for the boy.
In 1951, he briefly retired from acting to enter a monastery,...
- 5/24/2024
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Darryl Hickman, who appeared in such films as The Grapes of Wrath and Leave Her to Heaven as a youngster before becoming a CBS executive in charge of daytime drama and an actor once more, has died. He was 92.
Hickman, who lived in Montecito, died Wednesday, his family announced.
He was the older brother (by three years) of the late Dwayne Hickman, who starred on the 1959-63 CBS comedy The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Darryl appeared with his brother in Captain Eddie (1945) — he played famed fighter pilot Eddie Rickenbacker as a boy — and on three first-season episodes of Dobie as older brother Davey, who came home from college.
In 1951, after appearances in more than 40 movies, Hickman — who had been a contract player at Paramount and MGM — became disillusioned with the business and entered a monastery, though he was back in show business before long.
Hickman had made his first...
Hickman, who lived in Montecito, died Wednesday, his family announced.
He was the older brother (by three years) of the late Dwayne Hickman, who starred on the 1959-63 CBS comedy The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Darryl appeared with his brother in Captain Eddie (1945) — he played famed fighter pilot Eddie Rickenbacker as a boy — and on three first-season episodes of Dobie as older brother Davey, who came home from college.
In 1951, after appearances in more than 40 movies, Hickman — who had been a contract player at Paramount and MGM — became disillusioned with the business and entered a monastery, though he was back in show business before long.
Hickman had made his first...
- 5/24/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Odeon cinema in Ayr Photo: Ian Rainey
The Odeon cinema in Ayr, which was purpose built 85 years ago, is to close on 5 June, it was announced today. In a message sent to customers, the owners apologised for the decision but said "it is no longer viable to operate the cinema."
Designed by the award-winning architect Thomas Braddock, the distinctive Art Deco building was one of three, with companion cinemas in Hamilton and Motherwell which closed some years ago. It opened with a screening of The Prisoner Of Zenda and is currently screening Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3.
The Odeon company, founded in 1928 by Oscar Deutsch and a part of the AMC group since 2016, was badly hit by Covid lockdowns and has continued to post a loss each year since.
The closure will leave Ayr, which has a population of just under 47,000 people, with no centrally located cinema. Efforts are underway to find.
The Odeon cinema in Ayr, which was purpose built 85 years ago, is to close on 5 June, it was announced today. In a message sent to customers, the owners apologised for the decision but said "it is no longer viable to operate the cinema."
Designed by the award-winning architect Thomas Braddock, the distinctive Art Deco building was one of three, with companion cinemas in Hamilton and Motherwell which closed some years ago. It opened with a screening of The Prisoner Of Zenda and is currently screening Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3.
The Odeon company, founded in 1928 by Oscar Deutsch and a part of the AMC group since 2016, was badly hit by Covid lockdowns and has continued to post a loss each year since.
The closure will leave Ayr, which has a population of just under 47,000 people, with no centrally located cinema. Efforts are underway to find.
- 5/6/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Cinematography retrospectives are the way to go—more than a thorough display of talent, it exposes the vast expanse a Dp will travel, like an education in form and business all the same. Accordingly I’m happy to see the Criterion Channel give a 25-film tribute to James Wong Howe, whose career spanned silent cinema to the ’70s, populated with work by Howard Hawks, Michael Curtz, Samuel Fuller, Alexander Mackendrick, Sydney Pollack, John Frankenheimer, and Raoul Walsh.
Further retrospectives are granted to Romy Schneider (recent repertory sensation La piscine among them), Carlos Saura (finally a chance to see Peppermint frappe!), the British New Wave, and groundbreaking distributor Cinema 5, who brought to U.S. shores everything from The Man Who Fell to Earth and Putney Swope to Pumping Iron and Scenes from a Marriage.
September also yields streaming premieres for the recently restored Bronco Bullfrog, Ang Lee’s Pushing Hands,...
Further retrospectives are granted to Romy Schneider (recent repertory sensation La piscine among them), Carlos Saura (finally a chance to see Peppermint frappe!), the British New Wave, and groundbreaking distributor Cinema 5, who brought to U.S. shores everything from The Man Who Fell to Earth and Putney Swope to Pumping Iron and Scenes from a Marriage.
September also yields streaming premieres for the recently restored Bronco Bullfrog, Ang Lee’s Pushing Hands,...
- 8/22/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Deborah Kerr would’ve celebrated her 97th birthday on September 30, 2018. With six Oscar bids to her name, the Scottish-born thespian is one of the most celebrated performers of all time. However, she never actually won one of those little gold statuettes, giving her the dubious distinction of tying Thelma Ritter and Glenn Close as the most nominated actress without a victory. Still, she must’ve done something right to rack up all that Academy recognition. In honor of her birthday, let’s take a look back at 15 of her greatest films, ranked worst to best.
Born in 1921, Kerr got her start on the London stage before appearing in her first film when she was just 20-years-old: “Major Barbara” (1941). She had her big break two years later in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger‘s epic “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp” (1943). Kerr reunited with the filmmaking duo for “Black Narcissus...
Born in 1921, Kerr got her start on the London stage before appearing in her first film when she was just 20-years-old: “Major Barbara” (1941). She had her big break two years later in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger‘s epic “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp” (1943). Kerr reunited with the filmmaking duo for “Black Narcissus...
- 9/30/2018
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
University Press of Kentucky
464 pages
Published 15 December 2017
Isdn: 978-0-8131-7425-9
Review By Adrian Smith
Born in 1896, as a teenager Barbara La Marr, then Reatha Watson, lead something of an adventurous life. Her father worked in the newspaper business, and the family moved home constantly, almost inevitably contributing towards the turbulence and seeming inability to settle down that plagued her life. At the age of sixteen, now living in California, her elder sister and her husband kidnapped Reatha, causing a minor scandal, with some accounts stating that Reatha had helped plot the kidnaping herself in a desire to flee her oppressive parents. Reatha was already an incredibly luminous and attractive young woman, and she was regularly spotted in the nightclubs of Los Angeles dancing, drinking, and generally behaving in such a way that soon brought the wrong kind of attention. For her own protection a court declared that she...
464 pages
Published 15 December 2017
Isdn: 978-0-8131-7425-9
Review By Adrian Smith
Born in 1896, as a teenager Barbara La Marr, then Reatha Watson, lead something of an adventurous life. Her father worked in the newspaper business, and the family moved home constantly, almost inevitably contributing towards the turbulence and seeming inability to settle down that plagued her life. At the age of sixteen, now living in California, her elder sister and her husband kidnapped Reatha, causing a minor scandal, with some accounts stating that Reatha had helped plot the kidnaping herself in a desire to flee her oppressive parents. Reatha was already an incredibly luminous and attractive young woman, and she was regularly spotted in the nightclubs of Los Angeles dancing, drinking, and generally behaving in such a way that soon brought the wrong kind of attention. For her own protection a court declared that she...
- 8/1/2018
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Ronald Colman: Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Month in two major 1930s classics Updated: Turner Classic Movies' July 2017 Star of the Month is Ronald Colman, one of the finest performers of the studio era. On Thursday night, TCM presented five Colman star vehicles that should be popping up again in the not-too-distant future: A Tale of Two Cities, The Prisoner of Zenda, Kismet, Lucky Partners, and My Life with Caroline. The first two movies are among not only Colman's best, but also among Hollywood's best during its so-called Golden Age. Based on Charles Dickens' classic novel, Jack Conway's Academy Award-nominated A Tale of Two Cities (1936) is a rare Hollywood production indeed: it manages to effectively condense its sprawling source, it boasts first-rate production values, and it features a phenomenal central performance. Ah, it also shows its star without his trademark mustache – about as famous at the time as Clark Gable's. Perhaps...
- 7/21/2017
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
A few years ago the editors of Shadowlocked asked me to compile a list of what was initially to be, the ten greatest movie matte paintings of all time. A mere ten selections was too slim by a long shot, so my list stretched considerably to twenty, then thirty and finally a nice round fifty entries. Even with that number I found it wasn’t easy to narrow down a suitably wide ranging showcase of motion picture matte art that best represented the artform. So with that in mind, and due to the surprising popularity of that 2012 Shadowlocked list (which is well worth a visit, here Ed), I’ve assembled a further fifty wonderful examples of this vast, vital and more extensively utilised than you’d imagine – though now sadly ‘dead and buried’ – movie magic.
It would of course be so easy to simply concentrate on the well known, iconic,...
It would of course be so easy to simply concentrate on the well known, iconic,...
- 12/28/2015
- Shadowlocked
Born in St. Louis on May 27, 1911, iconic actor Vincent Price retained a special fondness for his place of origin, and that love was reciprocated with Vincentennial, a celebration of his 100th birthday in his hometown back in May of 2011 (for summary of all the Vincentennial activities go Here). One of the guests of honor at Vincentennial was Vincent Price’s daughter Victoria Price. Because of their close relationship and her access to his unpublished memoirs and letters, Victoria Price was able to provide a remarkably vivid account of her father’s public and private life in her essential book, Vincent Price, a Daughter’s Biography, originally published in 1999. .In 2011, her biography of her father was out of print. but now it’s been re-issued and Victoria will be in St. Louis this weekend (October 9th – 10th) for three special events. In addition to the biography, she will also be signing...
- 10/6/2015
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ca. 1935. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was never as popular as his father, silent film superstar Douglas Fairbanks, who starred in one action-adventure blockbuster after another in the 1920s (The Mark of Zorro, Robin Hood, The Thief of Bagdad) and whose stardom dates back to the mid-1910s, when Fairbanks toplined a series of light, modern-day comedies in which he was cast as the embodiment of the enterprising, 20th century “all-American.” What this particular go-getter got was screen queen Mary Pickford as his wife and United Artists as his studio, which he co-founded with Pickford, D.W. Griffith, and Charles Chaplin. Now, although Jr. never had the following of Sr., he did enjoy a solid two-decade-plus movie career. In fact, he was one of the few children of major film stars – e.g., Jane Fonda, Liza Minnelli, Angelina Jolie, Michael Douglas, Jamie Lee Curtis – who had successful film careers of their own.
- 8/16/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Rex Ingram in 'The Thief of Bagdad' 1940 with tiny Sabu. Actor Rex Ingram movies on TCM: Early black film performer in 'Cabin in the Sky,' 'Anna Lucasta' It's somewhat unusual for two well-known film celebrities, whether past or present, to share the same name.* One such rarity is – or rather, are – the two movie people known as Rex Ingram;† one an Irish-born white director, the other an Illinois-born black actor. Turner Classic Movies' “Summer Under the Stars” continues today, Aug. 11, '15, with a day dedicated to the latter. Right now, TCM is showing Cabin in the Sky (1943), an all-black musical adaptation of the Faust tale that is notable as the first full-fledged feature film directed by another Illinois-born movie person, Vincente Minnelli. Also worth mentioning, the movie marked Lena Horne's first important appearance in a mainstream motion picture.§ A financial disappointment on the...
- 8/12/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Raymond Massey ca. 1940. Raymond Massey movies: From Lincoln to Boris Karloff Though hardly remembered today, the Toronto-born Raymond Massey was a top supporting player – and sometime lead – in both British and American movies from the early '30s all the way to the early '60s. During that period, Massey was featured in nearly 50 films. Turner Classic Movies generally selects the same old MGM / Rko / Warner Bros. stars for its annual “Summer Under the Stars” series. For that reason, it's great to see someone like Raymond Massey – who was with Warners in the '40s – be the focus of a whole day: Sat., Aug. 8, '15. (See TCM's Raymond Massey movie schedule further below.) Admittedly, despite his prestige – his stage credits included the title role in the short-lived 1931 Broadway production of Hamlet – the quality of Massey's performances varied wildly. Sometimes he could be quite effective; most of the time, however, he was an unabashed scenery chewer,...
- 8/8/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
By Lee Pfeiffer
Although he was regarded as a comedy genius, the sad truth is that Peter Sellers was more often than not misused in big screen comedies. After making it big on British TV and in feature films in the late 1950s, Sellers became an international sensation with his acclaimed work in big studio feature films such as "Lolita", "Dr. Strangelove", "The World of Henry Orient" and the first entries in the "Pink Panther" series. Through the mid-Sixties, he did impressive work in films like "After the Fox", "The Wrong Box" and "What's New Pussycat?" If the films weren't classics, at least they presented some of Sellers' off-the-wall ability to deliver innovative characters and comedic situations. By the late Sixties, however, his own personal demons began to get the better of him. Sellers was the epitome of the classic clown: laughing on the outside but crying on the inside.
Although he was regarded as a comedy genius, the sad truth is that Peter Sellers was more often than not misused in big screen comedies. After making it big on British TV and in feature films in the late 1950s, Sellers became an international sensation with his acclaimed work in big studio feature films such as "Lolita", "Dr. Strangelove", "The World of Henry Orient" and the first entries in the "Pink Panther" series. Through the mid-Sixties, he did impressive work in films like "After the Fox", "The Wrong Box" and "What's New Pussycat?" If the films weren't classics, at least they presented some of Sellers' off-the-wall ability to deliver innovative characters and comedic situations. By the late Sixties, however, his own personal demons began to get the better of him. Sellers was the epitome of the classic clown: laughing on the outside but crying on the inside.
- 3/8/2015
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
We’ll be celebrating the 5th year anniversary of Super-8 Movie Madness at The Way Out Club in St. Louis on Tuesday October 7th with an encore performance of our most popular show. It’s Super-8 Vincent Price Movie Madness in 3D, the show that we took on the road to promote Vincentennial back in 2011. We’ll be honoring the hometown horror hero by showing condensed (average length: 15 minutes) versions of several of Price’s greatest films on Super-8 sound film projected on a big screen. They are: Master Of The World, War-gods Of The Deep, Pit And The Pendulum, The Raven, Witchfinder General, Tim Burton’s Vincent, Two Vincent Price Trailer Reels, Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein and The Mad Magician in 3D (We’ll have plenty of 3D Glasses for everyone)
The non-Price movies we’re showing October 7th are The Three Stooges in Pardon My Backfire...
The non-Price movies we’re showing October 7th are The Three Stooges in Pardon My Backfire...
- 10/1/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
You’re probably heard the old chestnut that somewhere in the world resides your mirror twin or doppelgänger, a person with your exact mannerisms, voice, etc., but completely unrelated to you. Pretty farfetched a notion you say. Well film makers certainly believe it, or at least have used that idea for action thrillers and comedies in everything from The Prisoner Of Zenda to Frances Joins The Navy!. But what if this discovery of your double is not the inspiration for swashbuckling romance or manic hi-jinks? What if it drops you into a nightmare world? That’s the main idea of Enemy which re-teams co-writer and director Denis Villeneuve and actor Jake Gyllenhaal less that a year after their first work together, the crime thriller Prisoners.
The film opens over the Toronto cityscape as we hear a voicemail message left by a concerned mother about her son’s new home. Cut to an elegant,...
The film opens over the Toronto cityscape as we hear a voicemail message left by a concerned mother about her son’s new home. Cut to an elegant,...
- 3/20/2014
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Director: Choo Chang-min Review: Stan Glick Masquerade is a marvelous period film set during the rule of Gwanghae, one of the Joseon Dynasty kings. Cj Entertainment released a single disc DVD version in June of 2013. A Blu-ray edition became available in the U.S. on Tuesday, February 11th. So this seemed like the perfect time to review the film and to compare the DVD and Blu-ray versions. The story is one of assumed identity. In this it is related to such literary works as Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper (1881) and Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and to Akira Kurosawa's film Kagemusha (1980). King Gwanghae (Lee Byung-hun) knows that there are powerful ministers in his court who are plotting against him. Fearful of assassination, he commands Chief Secretary Ho Gyun (Ryu Seung-Ryong) to locate an identical double who can pretend to be the king certain evenings.
- 2/22/2014
- 24framespersecond.net
Ramon Novarro and Greta Garbo in ‘Mata Hari’: The wrath of the censors (See previous post: "Ramon Novarro in One of the Best Silent Movies.") George Fitzmaurice’s romantic spy melodrama Mata Hari (1931) was well received by critics and enthusiastically embraced by moviegoers. The Greta Garbo / Ramon Novarro combo — the first time Novarro took second billing since becoming a star — turned Mata Hari into a major worldwide blockbuster, with $2.22 million in worldwide rentals. The film became Garbo’s biggest international success to date, and Novarro’s highest-grossing picture after Ben-Hur. (Photo: Ramon Novarro and Greta Garbo in Mata Hari.) Among MGM’s 1932 releases — Mata Hari opened on December 31, 1931 — only W.S. Van Dyke’s Tarzan, the Ape Man, featuring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan, and Edmund Goulding’s all-star Best Picture Academy Award winner Grand Hotel (also with Garbo, in addition to Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, and...
- 8/9/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Ramon Novarro: Silent movie star proves he can talk and sing (See previous post: "Ramon Novarro: Mexican-Born Actor Was First Latin American Hollywood Superstar.") On Ramon Novarro Day, Turner Classic Movies’ first Novarro movie is Rex Ingram’s The Prisoner of Zenda (1922), a stately version of Edward Rose’s play, itself based on Anthony Hope’s 1897 novel: in the Central European kingdom of Ruritania, a traveling Englishman takes the place of the kidnapped local king-to-be-crowned. A pre-Judge Hardy Lewis Stone has the double role, while Novarro plays the scheming Rupert of Hentzau. (Photo: Ramon Novarro ca. 1922.) Despite his stage training, Stone is as interesting to watch as a beach pebble; Novarro, for his part, has a good time hamming it up in his first major break — courtesy of director Rex Ingram, then looking for a replacement for Rudolph Valentino, with whom he’d had a serious falling out...
- 8/8/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Paulette Goddard: An Ideal Husband and Paris Model on TCM Paulette Goddard height: Supposedly 5’4″. Paulette Goddard age: Well… Goddard would have turned 108 today. Or 103. Or 102. Or 98. It all depends on the source, though Goddard herself apparently — and not at all surprisingly — preferred the 1915 birth date, which would have made her 98 years old in 2013. Whether a centenarian or a nonagenarian, Paulette Goddard is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Day. TCM has already shown several Goddard movies, among them Charles Chaplin’s Modern Times and the Luise Rainer star vehicle Dramatic School, and it’s currently showing An Ideal Husband. (Picture: Paulette Goddard publicity shot, ca. 1940.) Made in England for London Films, An Ideal Husband (1947) was quite a prestigious production so as to justify the presence of a top Hollywood star in a British film. No less a figure than London Films founder Alexander Korda directed this movie adaptation of...
- 6/3/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Continuing our daily countdown, here is part three out of 30 in our list of the 300 Greatest Films Ever Made. These are numbers 280-271.
280) A Christmas Carol (1951) Brian Desmond-Hurst British
279) The Prisoner Of Zenda (1937) John Cromwell USA
278) To Be Or Not To Be (1942) Ernst Lubitsch USA
277) The Hunchback Of Notre Dam (1939) William Dieterle USA
276) Ed Wood (1994) Tim Burton USA
275) Red River (1948) Howard Hawks USA
274) Hotel Rwanda (2004) Terry George USA
273) How Green Was My Valley (1941) John Ford USA
272) Lost In Translation (2003) Sofia Coppola USA
271) Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) Hayao Miyazaki Japan Animated
Numbers 270-261 coming next.
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280) A Christmas Carol (1951) Brian Desmond-Hurst British
279) The Prisoner Of Zenda (1937) John Cromwell USA
278) To Be Or Not To Be (1942) Ernst Lubitsch USA
277) The Hunchback Of Notre Dam (1939) William Dieterle USA
276) Ed Wood (1994) Tim Burton USA
275) Red River (1948) Howard Hawks USA
274) Hotel Rwanda (2004) Terry George USA
273) How Green Was My Valley (1941) John Ford USA
272) Lost In Translation (2003) Sofia Coppola USA
271) Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) Hayao Miyazaki Japan Animated
Numbers 270-261 coming next.
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- 1/4/2013
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Rob Young)
- Cinelinx
If you don't know who Mel Brooks is, you could be a teenager, born without a sense of humor or someone who hasn't been paying attention for a really long time. Just in case, Brooks, 86, is one of the rare performers known as an Egot (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) winner -- multiple times.
A comedian, actor, singer, director, producer and lyricist, Brooks is the brains behind "The Producers," "Blazing Saddles" and "Young Frankenstein." He chats openly with his pal, Alan Yentob of the BBC, in an hourlong conversation, "Mel Brooks Strikes Back!" Monday, Dec. 10., on HBO. He had another open and long talk with Zap2it, condensed here.
Zap2it: What is your favorite one-liner?
Mel Brooks: "Walk this way." Don't ask me why. Groucho did it, and the double entendre was he walked in a funny way.
Zap2it: What's your favorite song?
Mel Brooks: It's probably "High Anxiety.
A comedian, actor, singer, director, producer and lyricist, Brooks is the brains behind "The Producers," "Blazing Saddles" and "Young Frankenstein." He chats openly with his pal, Alan Yentob of the BBC, in an hourlong conversation, "Mel Brooks Strikes Back!" Monday, Dec. 10., on HBO. He had another open and long talk with Zap2it, condensed here.
Zap2it: What is your favorite one-liner?
Mel Brooks: "Walk this way." Don't ask me why. Groucho did it, and the double entendre was he walked in a funny way.
Zap2it: What's your favorite song?
Mel Brooks: It's probably "High Anxiety.
- 12/10/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has undertaken a unique expansion in film preservation. As the rise of digital technology drastically reduces the availability of film stock, the project accelerates the work of the Academy Film Archive to acquire and create new archival film masters and prints from at-risk elements. Under the banner “Film-to-Film,” the $2 million initiative, approved by the Academy.s Board of Governors, focuses largely on Academy Award®-winning and nominated films from across motion picture history, including works made as recently as the 1990s.
“This is a moment of great transition for our industry, and we are responding to the urgency of that moment,” said Dawn Hudson, Academy CEO. “By increasing our preservation efforts now, we are building a vital pipeline of films and film elements that we will not only safeguard, but also make available for audiences well into the future.”
Until recently, the...
“This is a moment of great transition for our industry, and we are responding to the urgency of that moment,” said Dawn Hudson, Academy CEO. “By increasing our preservation efforts now, we are building a vital pipeline of films and film elements that we will not only safeguard, but also make available for audiences well into the future.”
Until recently, the...
- 5/7/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
HBO is developing a film based on the life of legendary film producer David O. Selznick reports The Los Angeles Times.
"The Messenger" director Oren Moverman is re-writing an early draft from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies and could potentially direct (though that's not confirmed yet).
Ben Stiller is executive producing and has met several times with both the network and with Moverman to potentially star.
Based partly on Selznick's own correspondence, the film will follow the ladies man who worked in the studio system at MGM, Paramount and Rko in the 20's and 30's on such films as "King Kong" and "Dinner at Eight".
In 1935 he started his own company and was the creative force behind the epic "Gone with the Wind" along with "The Prisoner of Zenda," "A Star is Born" and Alfred Hitchcock's Oscar-winning first Hollywood film "Rebecca". He also produced "The Third Man" and "Duel in the Sun"
Stuart Cornfeld,...
"The Messenger" director Oren Moverman is re-writing an early draft from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies and could potentially direct (though that's not confirmed yet).
Ben Stiller is executive producing and has met several times with both the network and with Moverman to potentially star.
Based partly on Selznick's own correspondence, the film will follow the ladies man who worked in the studio system at MGM, Paramount and Rko in the 20's and 30's on such films as "King Kong" and "Dinner at Eight".
In 1935 he started his own company and was the creative force behind the epic "Gone with the Wind" along with "The Prisoner of Zenda," "A Star is Born" and Alfred Hitchcock's Oscar-winning first Hollywood film "Rebecca". He also produced "The Third Man" and "Duel in the Sun"
Stuart Cornfeld,...
- 10/5/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
I'm somewhat numb from all the high-end movie-related auctions this year, but one has caught my fancy in a way that Debbie Reynolds’ or even John Wayne’s hasn’t. Even the catalog for the September 13 event at Doyle Gallery in New York is a keeper, because it celebrates the life and often-overlooked career of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. A handsome and elegant man, and a much better actor than he’s given credit for (think of Gunga Din, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Corsican Brothers, or any number of early 1930s Warner Bros. films), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. lived in his famous father’s…...
- 9/1/2011
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
The Devil’s Double
Directed by Lee Tamahori
Written by Michael Thomas and Latif Yahia, Based on the novel by Latif Yahia
Belgium, 2011
Fantasia imdb
The idea that there could be someone in the world who resembles us so much that they could pass as our double is a popular meme in literary imaginations, frequently expressed as the confusion between a peasant and a noble who appear physically identical, but whose life experiences are radically different. The only question is how far back do we go to find the original idea first expressed: Moon Over Parador? The Great Dictator? The Prisoner of Zenda? The Prince and the Pauper? A Tale of Two Cities? The Man in the Iron Mask? Twelfth Night?
In fact, the idea of the doppelgänger is such a primal one that it is expressed in the very first piece of recorded literature: The Epic of Gilgamesh. The...
Directed by Lee Tamahori
Written by Michael Thomas and Latif Yahia, Based on the novel by Latif Yahia
Belgium, 2011
Fantasia imdb
The idea that there could be someone in the world who resembles us so much that they could pass as our double is a popular meme in literary imaginations, frequently expressed as the confusion between a peasant and a noble who appear physically identical, but whose life experiences are radically different. The only question is how far back do we go to find the original idea first expressed: Moon Over Parador? The Great Dictator? The Prisoner of Zenda? The Prince and the Pauper? A Tale of Two Cities? The Man in the Iron Mask? Twelfth Night?
In fact, the idea of the doppelgänger is such a primal one that it is expressed in the very first piece of recorded literature: The Epic of Gilgamesh. The...
- 8/17/2011
- by Michael Ryan
- SoundOnSight
Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Lost Horizon Ronald Colman on TCM: Random Harvest, Kiki, A Tale Of Two Cities Schedule (Et) and synopses from the TCM website: 6:00 Am Lucky Partners (1940) Two strangers who share a sweepstakes ticket take it on the lam. Dir: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Ronald Colman, Ginger Rogers, Jack Carson. Bw-99 mins. 7:45 Am My Life With Caroline (1941) A man thinks his high-spirited wife is cheating on him. Dir: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Ronald Colman, Anna Lee, Charles Winninger. Bw-81 mins. 9:15 Am The White Sister (1923) Thinking her lover was killed in the war, a young woman becomes a nun. Dir: Henry King. Cast: Lillian Gish, Ronald Colman, Gail Kane. Bw-135 mins. 11:30 Am Kiki (1926) A Parisian dancer vies with a glamorous actress for a producer's heart. Dir: Clarence Brown. Cast: Norma Talmadge, Ronald Colman, Gertrude Astor. Bw-97 mins. 1:30 Pm Raffles (1930) A distinguished British gentleman hides his true...
- 8/4/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Ronald Colman, A Tale of Two Cities Ronald Colman is Turner Classic Movies "Summer Under the Stars" performer on Thursday, August 4. One of the finest film actors ever, at ease in both heavy drama and light comedy, Ronald Colman will have his extensive career represented by 13 films. Among those are three TCM premieres: the silent comedies Kiki (1926) and Her Night of Romance (1924), and the 1931 romantic drama The Unholy Garden. [Ronald Colman Movie Schedule.] Kiki is notable as one of Drama Queen Norma Talmadge's relatively rare comedy forays. Though all but forgotten today, Talmadge was one of the top two or three movie stars of the 1920s, starring in a series of melodramas that gave her the chance both to suffer for love and to wear some really fancy gowns. Women loved her. And I'm assuming many men loved her as well. In fact, had the Academy been founded a few years earlier, I...
- 8/4/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Creator of film special effects who turned an 18-inch model ape into King Kong
In the history of cinema, many children have followed their mothers or fathers into the film business, but few offspring pursued the path of a parent more slavishly than Harry Redmond Jr, who has died aged 101. Like a master craftsman, Harry Redmond Sr passed on the skills of his trade to his son, the trade being the creation of special effects for films. Most notably, they worked together on King Kong (1933), in which a giant gorilla captures an actor, Ann Darrow, played by the "scream queen" Fay Wray.
The Redmonds were important members of the King Kong technical team under the supervision of Willis O'Brien, the pioneer of model animation. Part of their job was to integrate the stop-motion models and animatronics into live-action sequences by means of back projection and travelling mattes. Although the model...
In the history of cinema, many children have followed their mothers or fathers into the film business, but few offspring pursued the path of a parent more slavishly than Harry Redmond Jr, who has died aged 101. Like a master craftsman, Harry Redmond Sr passed on the skills of his trade to his son, the trade being the creation of special effects for films. Most notably, they worked together on King Kong (1933), in which a giant gorilla captures an actor, Ann Darrow, played by the "scream queen" Fay Wray.
The Redmonds were important members of the King Kong technical team under the supervision of Willis O'Brien, the pioneer of model animation. Part of their job was to integrate the stop-motion models and animatronics into live-action sequences by means of back projection and travelling mattes. Although the model...
- 6/28/2011
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Witchfinder General will play at the Vincentennial Vincent Price Film Festival in a 35mm print at 7:00pm tonight, Thursday, May 26th at Brown Hall on the campus of Washington University. Admission is free.
It’s likely that Vincent Price never delivered a better performance than the one he gave in Witchfinder General (1968), the fact-based story of infamous witchhunter Matthew Hopkins and the barbaric acts he practiced in mid-17th century England. Price completely jettisoned his usual campy theatrics in favor of an appropriately low-key, sinister, and menacing depiction of a purely evil man who hides behind a mask of religious allegiance. Price plays Hopkins as an unmerciful fiend with a genteel manner and an appetite for torture, especially burning. The movie is cruel in its violence but also intelligent and effective and Price is relatively restrained in a complex role as a man who whose mission is to achieve...
It’s likely that Vincent Price never delivered a better performance than the one he gave in Witchfinder General (1968), the fact-based story of infamous witchhunter Matthew Hopkins and the barbaric acts he practiced in mid-17th century England. Price completely jettisoned his usual campy theatrics in favor of an appropriately low-key, sinister, and menacing depiction of a purely evil man who hides behind a mask of religious allegiance. Price plays Hopkins as an unmerciful fiend with a genteel manner and an appetite for torture, especially burning. The movie is cruel in its violence but also intelligent and effective and Price is relatively restrained in a complex role as a man who whose mission is to achieve...
- 5/26/2011
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Champagne For Caesar will play at the Vincentennial Vincent Price Film Festival in a 35mm print at 7:00pm tonight, Tuesday, May 24th at Brown Hall on the campus of Washington University followed by The Baron Of Arizona at 9:15. With introductions and a post-film discussion of .Champagne for Caesar. by Washington U. film & media lecturer Hunter Vaughan. Admission is free.
Many works of fiction have been said to be ahead of their time. In the world of motions pictures few are more prophetic than the 1950 comedy classic Champagne For Caesar. By that year, mind you, quiz shows were popular on radio and that young upstart television, but by the end of the decade these programs would inspire a national craze ( and a scandal later depicted in Robert Redford’s film Quiz Show ). Caesar foreshadows all this while showcasing some delightful performances by actors generally not known for big screen comedies.
Many works of fiction have been said to be ahead of their time. In the world of motions pictures few are more prophetic than the 1950 comedy classic Champagne For Caesar. By that year, mind you, quiz shows were popular on radio and that young upstart television, but by the end of the decade these programs would inspire a national craze ( and a scandal later depicted in Robert Redford’s film Quiz Show ). Caesar foreshadows all this while showcasing some delightful performances by actors generally not known for big screen comedies.
- 5/24/2011
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Article by Jim Batts, Dana Jung, and Tom Stockman
Born in St. Louis on May 27, 1911, iconic actor Vincent Price retained a special fondness for his place of origin, and that love is now reciprocated with Vincentennial, a celebration of his 100th birthday in his hometown. Price was not only a notable St. Louisan but one of the 20th century.s most remarkable men. To do full justice to the range of his accomplishments, Vincentennial features not only a 10-day film festival but also a pair of exhibits, a stage production, two publications, and illuminating discussions by Price experts and film historians. We decided to do a special edition of Top Ten Tuesday here at We Are Movie Geeks in honor of the many great films that Vincent Price starred in, and after we had assembled the list we realized that all ten of these films will be showing at the...
Born in St. Louis on May 27, 1911, iconic actor Vincent Price retained a special fondness for his place of origin, and that love is now reciprocated with Vincentennial, a celebration of his 100th birthday in his hometown. Price was not only a notable St. Louisan but one of the 20th century.s most remarkable men. To do full justice to the range of his accomplishments, Vincentennial features not only a 10-day film festival but also a pair of exhibits, a stage production, two publications, and illuminating discussions by Price experts and film historians. We decided to do a special edition of Top Ten Tuesday here at We Are Movie Geeks in honor of the many great films that Vincent Price starred in, and after we had assembled the list we realized that all ten of these films will be showing at the...
- 5/10/2011
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
So you probably saw the headline and thought to yourself, “Oh Dave came up with a cute tie-in to all the pomp and ceremony that went on over in London last week, how clever of him to find an Eclipse title that connects so well with the marriage of Prince William and his girlfriend Catherine Middleton.” Yeah, I’m sure that’s what you were thinking and I can’t fault you for drawing such an obvious conclusion, even though it’s wrong. I actually chose this film for my next installment in this series simply because May 2 happens to be the birthday of Catherine the Great, the most powerful woman on earth during her lifetime and one of the most influential of all monarchs in Russia’s long and turbulent history.
Despite the fact that The Rise of Catherine the Great depicts a young woman’s entry into the...
Despite the fact that The Rise of Catherine the Great depicts a young woman’s entry into the...
- 5/4/2011
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
(at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007; Golden Horse Award winner)
Director: Arthur Dong
Starring: Nancy Kwan, Joan Chen, Tsai Chin, James Hong, Christopher Lee, Justin Lin
(Writing from Tiff, where he brought his film for its premiere, Arthur Dong shares with Mpm the personal story behind the film.)
In-a-nutshell:
With Chinese the largest visible minority in Canada, it is not too surprising that the Tiff programmers chose to schedule Hollywood Chinese in this year’s festival. From the unfamiliar fame of Anna May Wong (The Toll of the Sea, Shanghai Express), to her perceived snubbing as the lead in The Good Earth, Dong’s documentary simmers amidst old-Hollywood’s promotion teams serving up top-billing to Caucasian stars in “yellow-face” in films promoted by teams pulling Chinese oxen through San Francisco’s streets inhabited by white women in silk dresses – in order to appeal to the...
- 1/28/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Three entertaining novels: an epic, wry account of Brits in the Balkans during WWII, a gripping murder mystery in a Southern town, and what Marilyn Monroe's dog, Maf, saw.
The Balkan TrilogyBy Olivia Manning
Related story on The Daily Beast: This Week's Hot Reads
No young man dreams of growing up to be a lecturer for the British Council. But when I first stumbled across Olivia Manning's Balkan Trilogy in graduate school, I was ready to be signed up. At nearly a thousand pages, Manning's three novels are a sweeping story of marital love, English manners, and Balkan intrigues, set against Europe's descent into the Second World War. Harriet Pringle, bright and self-confident, joins her husband, Guy, in Bucharest, Romania, where he teaches English at the local university as part of a British cultural program. "Anything can happen now," Harriet thinks as her train chugs eastward, somewhere beyond Venice.
The Balkan TrilogyBy Olivia Manning
Related story on The Daily Beast: This Week's Hot Reads
No young man dreams of growing up to be a lecturer for the British Council. But when I first stumbled across Olivia Manning's Balkan Trilogy in graduate school, I was ready to be signed up. At nearly a thousand pages, Manning's three novels are a sweeping story of marital love, English manners, and Balkan intrigues, set against Europe's descent into the Second World War. Harriet Pringle, bright and self-confident, joins her husband, Guy, in Bucharest, Romania, where he teaches English at the local university as part of a British cultural program. "Anything can happen now," Harriet thinks as her train chugs eastward, somewhere beyond Venice.
- 12/19/2010
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
Joel Silver is one of the most prolific and successful producers in the history of motion pictures. He has produced over 60 films, including the groundbreaking “The Matrix” trilogy, the blockbuster four-part “Lethal Weapon” franchise, and the seminal action films “Die Hard” and “Predator.” To date, Silver’s catalog of films have earned more than $10 billion in worldwide revenue from all sources.
Under his Silver Pictures banner, Silver most recently produced the smash hit action adventure “Sherlock Holmes,” directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, and Rachel McAdams, which earned more than $500 million worldwide. He’s current producing the sequel and it’s been rumored Brad Pitt may possibly join the cast to play the infamous Dr. Moriarty.
Most recently, Silver produced the actioner “The Losers,” starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana and Chris Evans. His production company also has a number of films upcoming, including the thriller “Unknown White Male,...
Under his Silver Pictures banner, Silver most recently produced the smash hit action adventure “Sherlock Holmes,” directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, and Rachel McAdams, which earned more than $500 million worldwide. He’s current producing the sequel and it’s been rumored Brad Pitt may possibly join the cast to play the infamous Dr. Moriarty.
Most recently, Silver produced the actioner “The Losers,” starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana and Chris Evans. His production company also has a number of films upcoming, including the thriller “Unknown White Male,...
- 6/1/2010
- MoviesOnline.ca
Ronald Colman in The Prisoner of Zenda: Never a dull moment, whether fighting Douglas Fairbanks Jr. or romancing Madeleine Carroll Celebrating Douglas Fairbanks Jr.’s 100th birthday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) on Wednesday, December 9, at 8 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Oscar-winning visual-effects supervisor Craig Barron and Oscar-winning sound designer Ben Burtt will examine the photographic and sound effects used in this Ruritanian classic directed by John Cromwell, and also starring Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, and Mary Astor. As a plus, the evening will feature rare behind-the-scenes color footage of The Prisoner of Zenda from the Academy Film Archive’s [...]...
- 12/9/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Packard Campus December Film Series: Introduction Series Schedule Thursday, Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m. Manhattan (United Artist, 1979, R-rated*) A television comedy writer in New York falls for his best friend’s girl. Directed by Woody Allen, who stars with Diane Keaton, the film was named to the National Film Registry in 2001. *No one under 17 will be admitted without a parent or an adult guardian. Friday, Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m. The Prisoner of Zenda (Selznick International Pictures, 1937) An Englishman on holiday in Ruritania must impersonate the king when the rightful monarch, a distant cousin, is drugged and kidnapped. Starring Ronald Colman and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., the film [...]...
- 12/1/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Ronald Colman, centenarian Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Madeleine Carroll, and Mary Astor (in the Ruritanian classic The Prisoner of Zenda); Fairbanks again, with Irene Dunne and Lucille Ball (in the not-so-classic comedy Joy of Living); Bette Davis, Monty Woolley and Ann Sheridan (in the comedy classic The Man Who Came to Dinner); John Gilbert and Renée Adorée (in the anti-war classic The Big Parade); Humphrey Bogart, Joan Bennett, and Peter Ustinov (in the demi-classic allegorical comedy We’re No Angels); Woody Allen and Diane Keaton (in the middle-age-crisis classic Manhattan); James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, and Gloria Grahame (in the horror classic It’s a Wonderful Life); Ingmar Bergman’s Oscar-winning classic Fanny and Alexander; and, inevitably, several Walt Disney classic shorts [...]...
- 12/1/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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