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Grace Kelly: To Catch A Thief, The Swan

5 November 2009 4:03 PM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »

Grace Kelly on TCM: Part I Thanks to Kelly’s Oscar win, The Country Girl is interesting as a historical curiosity — it’s the sort of "gutsy" and "realistic" film adaptation of a respected stage play that was very popular among the filmgoing elite of the 1950s (e.g., Tea and Sympathy, A Hatful of Rain), but that I generally find both lame and artificial. Bing Crosby’s drunk is about as convincing as Kelly’s frumpish housewife (a role that should have gone to original choice Jennifer Jones), but that didn’t prevent a number of Academy members from making sure Crosby, director George Seaton, and the film itself received Academy Award nominations. Seaton, in fact, did win an Oscar for his [...] »

- Andre Soares

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A Single Actress (Julianne Moore and Oscar)

27 September 2009 10:49 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

There can be only one ...winner, that is.

This year's supporting actress contest (new predictions!), if you believe early hype, is down to Mo'Nique vs. ummmm? She's way out front for her abusive mother role in Precious. But with Julianne Moore's supposedly vivid contribution to Tom Ford's A Single Man newly exciting festival auds, we could see the redhead goddess nab her 5th career nomination. That's quite an honor, even if she never wins that elusive statue.

The Man That Got Away Keeps Getting Away

A couple of years ago I asked readers who the next Deborah Kerr would be. Which modern important actress will be forever appreciated but never fully embraced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences? Back then Kate Winslet was sort of gunning for the honor. Now that the English Rose has noisily moved into the winner's circle, the imaginary competition is back on. »

- NATHANIEL R

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32 New Fantastic Reimagined Posters from Turner Classic Movies

13 August 2009 12:51 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

I am sure most of you remember the collection of 12 teaser posters Turner Classic Movies released last July in celebration of their "Summer Under the Stars," which is their 31-day series of films featuring a new actor every day. Well, they have debuted even more posters... 32 of them as a matter of fact, and over the next six pages I have every single one of them for you. Seeing how it is already August 13th, here is the list of actors left to have their day: August 13 - Gloria Grahame August 14 - Sidney Portier August 15 - Deborah Kerr August 16 - Elvis Presley August 17 - Jennifer Jones August 18 - John Wayne August 19 - Red Skelton August 20 - Miriam Hopkins August 21 - Gene Hackman August 22 - Sterling Hayden August 23 - Angela Lansbury August 24 - Fredric March August 25 - Merle Oberon August 26 - Yul Brynner August 27 - Ida Lupino August 28 - Frank Sinatra »

- Brad Brevet

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Into the Time Machine of a Black-and-White TV

27 May 2009 4:06 PM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

Turning back the hands of time, our friend and comrade in the cause of truth, justice, and beauty, Margo Jefferson, publishes a fond momento in the latest Bookforum irresistibly titled "TV Time in Negroland," wherein she recounts sitting down with her family in the fifties to watch the greatest black entertainers of the era do guest spots on the top variety shows. Idle diversion this wasn't. Under the microscope each performer went. It’s weekend-television time. Sammy Davis Jr. is going to be on The Milton Berle Show. Dorothy Dandridge is going to be on The Jerry Lewis Colgate Comedy Hour. Lena Horne is going to be on The Frank Sinatra Timex Show. These are seminal moments in the viewing mores of the whole nation. After dinner, the four of us gather in the TV room. Our parents are on the couch; Denise and I push the hassocks as near »

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TCM: Private Screenings—Interview With Ernest Borgnine

26 January 2009 10:15 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

Along with discussing TCM’s upcoming “31 Days of Oscar” and reminiscing on Arlene Dahl, Robert Osborne and I talked about Ernest Borgnine, with whom he recently taped an interview for TCM’s “Private Screenings”, which will premiere on Monday, January 26, 2009, 5:00Pm (Pt), followed by a four-film tribute. Borgnine, a venerable 92-year-old, is the oldest living Academy Award®-winning actor, now that Charlton Heston has passed away. Osborne and I exchanged a few comments regarding this Hollywood legend and then a few hours later I was offered the chance to share a few minutes with Ernie as well.

* * * Robert Osborne: [Ernie] may be matched with Olivia DeHaviland because she’s 92 as well. Jennifer Jones, I believe, is a couple of years younger. I must say that—knowing both of them—Borgnine and Olivia, is that they are both examples of how great it can be to live that long if you have good genes. »

- Michael Guillen

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Interview: Terence Davies on "Of Time and the City"

15 January 2009 4:32 PM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

By Aaron Hillis

Just because the Evening Standard once hailed him as "Britain's greatest living film director," doesn't mean that 63-year-old Terence Davies ("Distant Voices, Still Lives," "The Long Day Closes") can easily find funding for his audacious screen poetry; each new Davies work should be considered an arthouse event. His first feature since 2000's "The House of Mirth" (and an official selection at last year's Cannes Film Festival), "Of Time and the City" is a wonderfully elegiac ode to postwar Liverpool, the place of his birth and a source of memories alternately painstaking and droll. Over a haunting assemblage of '50s and '60s stock footage that seems too perfectly curated to have materialized from anywhere but history itself, Davies' theatrical basso profondo wittily narrates a stream of consciousness memoir -- including his first grapplings with his homosexuality and Catholic faith -- while eulogizing life as a mid-century Liverpudlian. »

- Aaron Hillis

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2009 | 2008 | 2003

6 articles from 2009

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