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19 articles from 2009
AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movie Quotes
4 November 2009 4:45 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »
"Extra" brings you AFI's 100 Best Movie Quotes of all time! From "The Wizard of Oz" to "Taxi Driver," see if your favorites made the list!
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie QuotesGone with the Wind (1939)
“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” —Said by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara.
The Godfather (1972)
“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” —Marlon Brando as Don Corleone.
On the Waterfront (1954)
“You don’t understand! »
Shadows of Russia: Communism on TCM
3 November 2009 11:28 PM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas in Ninotchka (top); Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford in The Way We Were (bottom) From the Romanovs’ last stand to Warren Beatty’s first solo directorial effort: On every Wednesday in January 2010, Turner Classic Movies will present the 20-film festival "Shadows of Russia," a showcase of Hollywood movies portraying Russia (and/or the Soviet Union) and the sociopolitical reverberations of Communism throughout the 20th century. Among the scheduled films are classics such as Ninotchka, The Manchurian Candidate, and Reds, in addition to lesser-known fare like Counter-Attack, I Was a Communist for the FBI, and The Strawberry Statement. Get ready for some laughs and a few tears — mostly laughs. And mostly of the unintended kind. I must red-facedly [...] »
- Andre Soares
Holiday Preview: A Repertory Calendar
3 November 2009 1:01 PM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Tim Burton invades New York, New Italian Cinema hits Los Angeles, Harold and Kumar spread holiday cheer in Austin and everywhere you look, they're celebrating All Tomorrow's Parties -- just some of the holiday film fun you can have this winter at your local repertory theater.
More Holiday Preview: [Theatrical Calendar]
[Repertory Calendar] [Anywhere But a Movie Theater]
New York
92YTribeca
In November, the 92YTribeca Screening Room will have some special guests in the house when it hosts the already sold out "A Conversation with Wes Anderson and Jason Schwartzman" on November 10th, with the two longtime collaborators discussing their latest film "Fantastic Mr. Fox." But tickets are still available for the night before (Nov. 9th), when actor Ben Foster and director Oren Moverman will screen their acclaimed new post-war drama "The Messenger". Much of the rest of the month is devoted to Cinema Tropical's Ten Years of New Argentine Cinema series with screenings of Adrián Caetano's immigration »
- Stephen Saito
Ramon Novarro II: Best Films, Rex Ingram
27 October 2009 1:34 PM, PDT | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Jeanette MacDonald, Ramon Novarro in The Cat and the Fiddle. Photo: Courtesy Matias Bombal Collection. Ramon Novarro: Allan Ellenberger Interview I How would you describe Ramon Novarro the actor? Novarro was a first-rate actor – maybe not an Olivier, but a good solid actor. Even in bad films such as Laughing Boy (1934), he had his moments. He was excellent in dramatic roles such as the aviator Alexis Rosanoff opposite Greta Garbo in Mata Hari (1931), or as the rapist-suitor of Myrna Loy in The Barbarian (1933). He excelled in light comedic moments, especially in The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) and in several of his musicals including The Cat and the Fiddle (1934) and The [...] »
- Andre Soares
Michael Mann Digs Robert Capa
5 October 2009 11:02 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Michael Mann is once again heading into the halls of history, but this time around it's about those who document the violence rather than those who deliver it. Variety reports that Mann and Columbia Pictures are joining forces to tell the story of war photographer Robert Capa and his romance with fellow photographer Gerda Taro.
The good news: This isn't simply another story where an artist's achievements are reduced to their time between the sheets. To be adapted from Susan Fortes' Waiting for Robert Capa (by scribe Jez Butterworth), the film will kick off when Capa (a refugee from fascist Hungary whose professional name was inspired by Frank Capra) meets a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany -- Gerda Taro (a name partly inspired by Greta Garbo). She becomes his assistant, learns photography, and the two fall in love. A year later, the Spanish Civil War begins, setting Capa up as »
- Monika Bartyzel
Warners digs up some cheesy gold on DVD
11 August 2009 2:05 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Back in March, Warner Bros announced the creation of Warner Archives, a mail-order service that offered some of the more obscure titles from the studio's vaults on DVD for armchair cinephiles. Each month, the studio promised to dust off more films and add them to the list. We'll be honest, the first batch was loaded with a lot of mothball-scented curios that were never released on DVD for a reason. They were lesser films from big stars like Cary Grant, Clark Gable, and Greta Garbo. Sure, the Robert Osborne crowd would eat them up, but what about the rest of us with -- how should we put this -- less discerning tastes? Well, this month's arsenal of Warner Archives titles is for you! Here are some of the highlights. *Razorback: Highlander's Russell Mulcahy helms this 1984 killer pig movie is a wonderfully gory slice of Ozploitation. This is Grade »
- Chris Nashawaty
Greta Garbo's life and loves get the big screen treatment
16 July 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »
Through her life, Greta Garbo was famously for saying she vanted to be alone. But even almost 20 years after her death, we just can’t seem to let her have her wish. With a life and career as rich and interesting as Garbo’s, how could we? Well now, a new film project will delve further into the private life of the screen icon.
Tapped to play the reclusive screen icon is relative unknown Swedish-born, New York-based actress Anna-Karin Eskilsson. She looks a little like Garbo and Padma Lakshmi had a love child, no?
Eskilsson has had small, largely cameo roles in films like The Wrestler (as a flirt in the supermarket) and Sex and the City movie (as one of Charlotte’s girlfriends). Before being tapped for the lead in the new biopic she was a bartender at the Empire State Building Bar. From cocktail slinger to screen icon, »
- dorothy snarker
Reed’s Bargain Bin: S1m0ne
6 July 2009 10:15 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Reed’s Bargain Bin [1] is a recurring column where Reed Farrington tells us about a movie he bought for under $5, and whether or not he regrets the purchase. Despite the clever title and participation of Al Pacino, S1m0ne did not receive much attention from critics or movie theatre audiences when it came out in 2002. The director, Andrew Niccol, had some acclaim as a result of having directed Gattaca (a smart science fiction film about a physically defective human in a genetically manipulated world) and having written The Truman Show (a smart allegorical film about a man who's oblivious to the fact that his life has been manufactured for the purposes of a television show). S1m0ne also has a high concept idea behind it: a movie director creates a computer generated actor who becomes a star while only he knows that the actor is computer generated. I think I’ve had »
- Reed
Edwards Scissorhands prop fetches over $16,000 at auction
24 June 2009 4:28 AM, PDT | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
Rockefeller Center was the place to be yesterday if on the hunt for expensive entertainment treasures. The New York branch of Christie’s auctioneers was home to a whole host of music, art and movie goodies going under the hammer as part of its Pop Culture Sale. Making headlines everywhere was the sale of a Sergeant Pepper poster signed by all four Beatles which sold for a whopping $52,500 (over £31,000), however it was the film-related items from the 300 available that whetted our appetite here at Boxwish. And most exciting and novel amongst this number was the prop of Edward Scissorhands’s scissorhands used in the production of the Johnny Depp movie which sold for $16,000 (nearly £10,000) – remarkable considering the asking price was only $3,000 to $5,000!
The budget-busting pair of scissorhands is described as being “composed of steel, leather, painted rubber and foam-latex” and now makes a fantastic movie souvenir for one lucky film fan. »
Rare Hepburn Stamp Goes For Sale
25 May 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
A rare stamp featuring a picture of Audrey Hepburn smoking is set to go on sale on Germany - eight years after the star's son ordered the entire print run be destroyed.
The stamps were commissioned by the German government in 2001 as part of a collection featuring portraits of stars including Hepburn, Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo.
But Hepburn's son, Sean Ferrer, objected to the photo of his late mother which had been used on the stamp because it showed her with a cigarette holder dangling from her lips.
He refused to grant copyright and all of the stamps were destroyed apart from 30 advanced copies which were saved from destruction by a postal employee.
One of the rare stamps - one of only five surviving copies - is now set to go under the hammer on Tuesday in Berlin, Germany. It has a reserve bid set at $41,959 (£27,972).
Hepburn died in 1993 at the age of 64. »
Carrie Rickey Defends Christian Bale from Minnow Attack
20 May 2009 3:14 PM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »
Carrie Rickey, a.k.a. Flickgrrl, responds to a critical barf hurled at mega-cheekboned actor Christian Bale (Empire of the Sun, American Psycho, Christopher Nolan's Batman revival, the imminent Terminator Salvation--could the later title be more vainglorious?), whose raging f-word rant may have cost him the Miss Congeniality award in perpetuity. Though I don't disagree with anything Carrie says in defense of Bale's acting, daring range, and fanatical commitment, I find him something of an abstraction on screen, a sculptural feat that leaves me somewhat cold. But the attack on Bale to which she's responding is based on such dated sentimentalities that you have to dust off the sentences and remind yourself you're not reading Rex Reed circa 1983: When we look into the dark pools of intensity that are Christian Bale’s eyes, do we see a star reflected in them? A star, that is, in the »
Is Christian Bale a Real Movie Star?
18 May 2009 4:03 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
If we see a glint in his eyes, it’s just his determination to be famous. But if we stare harder, we’ll find something more ominous -- our own sense of entitlement.
By Desson Thomson
When we look into the dark pools of intensity that are Christian Bale’s eyes, do we see a star reflected in them?
A star, that is, in the old-fashioned way we used to understand the term. You know, with that X-factor twinkle we saw -- or thought we saw -- in the baby blues of Paul Newman, the amber gaze of Greta Garbo or the mischievous expression of Clark Gable.
Nope.
Technically speaking, Bale is a star, given his impressive box-office returns as the star of “Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight,” and the huge anticipation for &ld... »
- Lew Harris
Queen Christina d: Rouben Mamoulian
14 April 2009 1:20 AM, PDT | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
Queen Christina (1933) Direction: Rouben Mamoulian Screenplay: H. M. Harwood and S. N. Behrman Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, Elizabeth Young, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, David Torrence One of the most ambitious productions of the early 1930s, Queen Christina remains surprisingly modern in its execution thanks in large part to Rouben Mamoulian’s assured hand. Those looking for historical accuracy in the film, however, will be greatly disappointed, for credited screenwriters H. M. Harwood and S. N. Behrman kept themselves busy concocting a highly fictionalized version of the Swedish queen; one who experiences an all-consuming and ultimately tragic love affair with a Spanish envoy. (Garbo biographer Mark Vieira explains [see below] that credited screenwriter — and close Garbo friend — Salka Viertel did not in any way help in the writing of the Queen Christina screenplay.) The unusual Swedish monarch is played with passionate determination by the equally unusual Swedish star Greta Garbo, »
- Andre Soares
Warner Opens Film Vault
30 March 2009 11:06 PM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »
I have seen the future of classic movies on DVD, and it's exciting.
I recently spent hours sampling titles from Warner Archive, a new initiative that makes dozens of hard-to-find old movies available on demand -- on disc as well as via download.
Warner is initially offering 150 never-on-dvd titles, with at least 20 more to be added every month, for $19.95 each ($14.95 for download). Vintage TV shows and theatrical live-action shorts are to be added in coming months.
Available exclusively at wbstore.com, they span the 1920s (Greta Garbo in "Love") to the 1980s (Kristy McNichol in »
- By LOU LUMENICK
Classic Film Stars: Now Less Elusive!
24 March 2009 7:32 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Have you heard the news that Warner Bros has opened up their vaults? Seems at least one of the major studios has realized that those who truly love the cinema love the entire history of it. They'd like to see more of that history.
Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery live Private Lives but they
still want to show off their brand new DVD collections!
There's a reason that some former mega stars (Norma Shearer is a good example) fade in the public consciousness quicker than others. Actually there are many reasons: changing tastes, mediocre filmographies, undramatic personal lives -- especially if they don't end tragically, pop culture's rapid "who's next?" star meat grinder, lack of gay appeal (think about it: fascinating the gays insures a long shelf life for entertainers. I don't think I need to cite examples... they've probably popped into your head just reading that sentence). But I'm »
- NATHANIEL R
Valentina !
16 March 2009 5:01 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
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Visited the Valentina exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York today. The gloved gown to the left was for exotic Hollywood beauty Merle Oberon. The green gown was designed for Lillian Gish who apparently wore Valentina both on and off stage. Finally to the right this Katharine Hepburn ensemble was for The Philadelphia Story. Valentina declared "At last, I made her look like a woman."
To your left are three Greta Garbo pieces. Apparently Garbo was pretty damn specific about what she wanted. The coat to your left she asked that it be ...a combination of The Duchess of Windsor, Lady Mendl and George Bernard ShawYou can't see the details too well here but the gown to your right, the "petal pink and black floral medallion silk brocade" is amazing.
Valentina was quite a high society character (why no biopic of her? »
- NATHANIEL R
Ask the Flying Monkey! (February 24, 2009)
23 February 2009 5:35 PM, PST | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »
Have a question about gay male entertainment? Ask the Monkey! (Please include your city and state and/or country)
Q: It seems like Robert Pattinson is attempting to sabotage his own success by talking about his poor hygiene habits etc. Perhaps he is just being very honest, which is refreshing. However, I am curious about his sexual orientation. I have seen him with his friend Tom Sturridge, and they seem very close, but I get the feeling that he is being told by his agent and the Twilight machine not to "come out" since his fans are predominantly young females. Haven't we gotten past all that by now? – Eileen, Gainesville, Virginia
A: First, Pattinson is reportedly straight, having been romantically linked with Nina Schubert, Katie Leung, and Camilla Belle; Sturridge is merely his best friend. And actually, I believe him. Why? Because – as you say – he is so damn honest »
- dennis
Grandchild Liked His 'Being There'
16 February 2009 10:22 PM, PST | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »
The road to an Oscar is sometimes long and winding.
For Melvyn Douglas, it led through World War II Burma (now Myanmar) where he met a young British comedian named Peter Sellers.
Douglas, famed at the time as the dapper star of Hollywood comedies such as "Ninotchka" (1939) with Greta Garbo, was entertaining troops.
"And someone decided to introduce him to this very funny young British soldier nobody had ever heard of," recalls Douglas' granddaughter, actress Illeana Douglas, who appears in a »
- By LOU LUMENICK
Greta Garbo Thawed Out So She May Finally Act With Ben Stiller
10 February 2009 11:11 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Wait...There's a different Greta in Hollywood? eff. Anyhoo, Greta Gerwig, seen in this past summer's horror/comedy Baghead, has been linked to star alongside Ben Stiller in Greenburg. The Hollywood Reporter, well, reports that Greenburg is the new dramedy being written/directed by Noah Baumbach (Squid and the Whale, Margot at the Wedding). The ... »
- Josh Radde
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