She co-starred opposite John Garfield, Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, Paul Newman and played Sandra Dee's mother but it's her European films that she's remembered for including Devil In The Flesh (1947) with Gerard Philipe, Loves Of A Woman (1953) with Massimo Girotti, Five Day Lover (1961) with...
An Oscar nominee for best supporting actress for The Rose Tattoo (1955), she also starred in Drum Beat (1954) with Alan Ladd, Diane (1956) with Lana Turner, Man In The Gray Flannel Suit (1956) with Gregory Peck and Solomon And Sheba (1959) with Yul Brynner among many others. She was the sister...
From the New York Times, worth reading and another reason I'm not sold on streaming. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/17/business/best-buy-dvds-britney-spears-crossroads.html
One of my personal favorites. Heartbreaking in The Hustler (1961) and unforgettable in Carrie (1976). https://www.indiewire.com/news/obituary/piper-laurie-dead-1234916783/
Fans of French cinema should know her well. For everybody else, she's probably best known for the Agatha Christie films Death On The Nile (1978) and Evil Under The Sun (1982)...
Quite the career! Film debut at 9 years old in Destry Rides Again (1939), the original Liat in Broadway's South Pacific (1949), Miriam in the first CinemaScope film The Robe (1953), co-starring with Cary Grant in Dream Wife (1953), two Tarzan movies (1957, 1959) with Gordon Scott, horror movies...
I just got an e-mail from Powerhouse/Indicator that effective 6/30/23 Dragonwyck, Little Murders, The Snake Pit, St. Valentine's Day Massacre and The Third Secret will no longer be available for purchase. The recently announced standard edition of Effect Of Gamma Rays On Man In The Moon...
Alas, most younger people won't remember her or the song (even recent Jeopardy contestants were stumped) but it was HUGE hit.
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/06/1180416189/astrud-gilberto-the-girl-from-ipanema-singer-dies-at-83
The funniest woman on the planet has passed away. R.I.P. Dame Edna. A star of the stage, TV and screen. (I have no idea who this Barry Humphries was)...
I just got an e-mail from Blogger that a post has been deleted because it didn't meet "community standards" but it didn't tell me specifically what was offensive about the post. It was a review of a telefilm with Candice Bergen called Mayflower Madam and this was the text:
A young socialite...
Fantastic in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and Absence Of Malice. The original Honey in the Broadway production of Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?. https://deadline.com/2023/02/melinda-dillon-dead-close-encounters-a-christmas-story-absence-of-malice-actress-1235249273/
Best Film: Tár
Best Director: S. S. Rajamouli, RRR
Best Actor: Colin Farrell, After Yang and The Banshees of Inisherin
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, Tár
Best Screenplay: Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Best Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once
Best...
The Critics’ Top 100 Greatest Films of All Time
1. “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
2. “Vertigo” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
3. “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941)
4. “Tokyo Story” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1953)
5. “In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai, 2001)
6...
I just finished watching Imprint's blu of Louis Malle's Pretty Baby (1978) from a new 4K scan from Paramount pictures (according to the back cover) and it looks very good and Sven Nykvist's cinematography is served well. There's an excellent 23 minute interview with Brooke Shields (filmed in...
Moviegoers will remember him from such movies as Mysterious Island, Cat Ballou, Gidget Goes Hawaiian and The Victors among many others. He was also the original Riff in the original stage cast of West Side Story...
Although best known for the TV series The F.B.I., he had memorable roles in two Douglas Sirk films All That Heaven Allows and There's Always Tomorrow as well as the cult horror film Cult Of The Cobra and the sci-fi movie The Land Unknown as well as a memorable episode of Twilight Zone titled The...