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Lauren Bacall, Annette Bening, Jeff Bridges: Governors Awards 2009

15 November 2009 4:13 PM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »

Honorary Award recipient Lauren Bacall, the star of classics such as To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Key Largo, How to Marry a Millionaire, and Designing Woman. Bacall was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for The Mirror Has Two Faces in 1996. “A man at last,” the 85-year-old Bacall exclaimed while holding her Honorary Oscar. “I’m here to stay so you better get used to the idea.” Three-time Oscar nominated actress Annette Bening toasts Honorary Award recipient Lauren Bacall during the 2009 Governors Awards in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Saturday, November 14. Gordon Willis, the cinematographer of classics such as The Godfather Part II, All the President’s Men, and The Purple Rose of Cairo, receives [...] »

- Anna Robinson

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Governors Awards presenters to include trio of Oscar winners

30 October 2009 7:26 AM, PDT | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »

Oscar champs Jonathan Demme ("The Silence of the Lambs"), Anjelica Huston ("Prizzi's Honor") and Quentin Tarantino ("Pulp Fiction") as well as honorary Oscar winner Kirk Douglas are the first presenters announced for the inaugural Governors Awards on Nov. 14. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences event will fete Thalberg honoree studio exec John Calley and honorary Oscar recipients actress Lauren Bacall, producer Roger Corman and cinematographer Gordon Willis. Douglas will no doubt salute Bacall, his onetime acting school classmate and co-star ("Young Man With a Horn"). Huston -- daughter of director John Huston, who worked with Bacall and her husband Humphrey Bogart on "Key Largo" -- could also be talking about Bacall's talents.... »

- tomoneil

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Forget it Jake. It’s Chinatown

30 September 2009 8:40 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »

The curious timing and conspiratorial goings-on surrounding Roman Polanski’s arrest in Switzerland this week bring to mind, for me, the Polish director’s most fascinating film, Chinatown. Arrested for a crime he confessed to thirty-two years ago, but the punishment for which he has avoided ever since, Polanski appears to have been drawn into a world of smoke-and-mirrors and legalese, finally bought down by the very system that has permitted his freedom from extradition since he fled the Us in 1977. It promises to be a distorted and confusing affair and like that experienced by Jake Gittes, the increasingly buffeted and bewildered detective protagonist in his 1974 neo-noir masterpiece, one that might prove impossible to truly unravel. Chinatown was, and remains, a dazzling exercise in cinematic intelligence and, even in that golden era of post-classical Hollywood, when directors as spiky and gifted as Scorsese, Altman, Coppola, Kubrick and Malick were at their towering, »

- Nick Clarke

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Walter Hill: The Hollywood Interview

9 September 2009 12:07 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

Director Walter Hill.

Kicking Ass with Walter Hill

by Jon Zelazny

Action flicks. Two-fisted tales. Guy movies. Whatever you want to call them, writer, producer, and director Walter Hill is one of the living masters, with a resume full of classics from The Getaway (1972), to the Alien series, and the definitive eighties action-comedy blockbuster, 48 Hrs. (1982).

2009 marks the 30th anniversary of The Warriors (1979), Hill’s surreal “street gang on the run” cult classic, and his breakout success as a director.

Jon: A couple years ago, you did an audio commentary and on-camera intro for a new DVD edition of The Warriors. It was the first time I’d ever seen you; is it my imagination, or have you kept a low profile over the years?

Walter Hill: I’d never done a commentary before on one of my films. I don’t like the idea of explaining a movie; I »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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Key Largo | Review

12 May 2009 7:08 AM, PDT | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »

Director: John Huston Writer(s): Maxwell Anderson (play), Richard Brooks and John Huston (screenplay) Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Claire Trevor, Lionel Barrymore It begins with Frank McCloud, played by Humphrey Bogart, traveling to, where else, Key Largo, to bring closure to the family of a war buddy killed in Ww II. Upon his arrival, he finds his fallen comrade's widow, Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall), and her father-in-law, James Temple (Lionel Barrymore), held hostage in their own hotel by the notorious gangster, Johnny Rocco, played by Edward G. Robinson. Rocco takes pleasure in ridiculing Nora and her wheelchair-ridden father-in-law, and spends his idle time taunting his lush of a girlfriend (played by Claire Trevor) with visions of a Scotch on the rocks. McCloud finally has enough of the entire mess, and reluctantly becomes the liberator, facing down Rocco and his gang on a shoot em' up escapade at sea. »

- Dirk Sonniksen

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