I'll not focus on the movie itself. " The Best Years of Our Lives " (1946) is a bold classic directed by William Wyler , which symbolizes life in America in the years that followed the end of WWII . What's amazing about this movie is how clearly it depicts changes in American mores that were happening much before the ascension of the flower power generation. True revolution really happens...
In color, directed by William Wyler (Ben Hur, among many others), won the best documentary Oscar in 1945. Follow "The Fighting Lady" (USS Yorktown) as she steams across the Pacific, culminating in the "Marianas Turkey Shoot." Some great footage:...
Writer Larry Karaszewski will host a salute to the '70s legend, who died last year. Larry Karaszewski, who co-wrote such films as "Ed Wood" with Scott Alexander, is presenting a salute tonight to 1970s blaxploitation legend Rudy Ray Moore, who died last year at the age of 81, at the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre.
" Dodsworth " ( William Wyler , 1936) "Why are Americans always such snobs?" asks David Niven 's snobbish Capt. Clyde Lockert. Well, the answer is that there are two kinds of people in this world: people who lump people together with presumptive generalizations and those who don't. And the best place to lump people together is a cruise ship. Just ask the captain of "The Love...
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.
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 [...]
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...
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...
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...
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 [...]
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...
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