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Legacy of John Ford celebrated at special Irish film symposium – Videos (IrishCentral)
4 May 2012 10:02 AM, PDT | IrishCentral | See recent IrishCentral news »
Filmmakers and film experts prepare to gather in Dublin to honor and celebrate the legacy of John Ford, one of the world’s most respected and influential filmmakers. The inaugural John Ford Ireland Film Symposium takes place 7th – 10th June with a four day focus on film and filmmaking, inspired and informed by the timeless work of legendary Irish-American director John Ford. Ford directed 137 films, worked on about 80 other projects, documentaries, and short films, and still holds the record for winning the most Oscars for his work as director. His parents were born in the west of Ireland. Ford was the first recipient of the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and received the American Presidential Medal of Freedom for his important war documentaries during his World War II American Navy service. His work continues to be much loved by audiences around the world, with favorites including big screen »
Filming the Camps: From Hollywood to Nuremberg
1 May 2012 8:30 AM, PDT | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »
Samuel Fuller's Bell and Howell Camera / © Courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, California, Coll. Christa Fuller John Ford, George Stevens, and Samuel Fuller entertained audiences with American cinema classics like The Grapes of Wrath, Shane, and The Big Red One. But their most important contribution to history was their work in the U.S. Armed Forces and Secret Services. The Museum of Jewish Heritage's new exhibition, Filming the Camps: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens: From Hollywood to Nuremberg, presents rare footage of the liberation of Dachau with detailed directors' notes and the documentary produced as evidence for the Nuremberg trials. One fascinating thing about the exhibit is that it enables us to view the footage in its historical context and read the accompanying narratives written by the cameramen and writers, practically in real-time, as soon as they finished shooting for the day. »
Penelope Andrew: TCM Fest 2012:Liza Minnelli, Kim Novak, Robert Wagner, Debbie Reynolds Walk Red Carpet
12 April 2012 1:15 PM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
The Fountainhead with Patricia Neal and Gary Cooper Photo: Courtesy of TCM
Liza Minnelli, Kim Novak, Robert Wagner, Tippi Hedren and Debbie Reynolds in person. Black Narcissus, Vertigo, Cabaret, and The Fountainhead projected on gigantic screens at Grauman's Chinese and Egyptian Theatres. Could any classic film fan wish for more? You could. And, at this year's annual TCM Classic Film Festival, which takes place from April 12th through the 15th, you'd get more: Kirk Douglas, Stanley Donen, Angie Dickenson, Norman Lloyd, Rhonda Fleming, and Norman Jewison appearing at special events and screenings of Two for the Road, Chinatown, Casablanca, The Longest Day, and The Thomas Crown Affair. But before going on about this year's festival, a look back is essential.
Chinatown's Faye Dunaway and Jack NicholsonPhoto: Courtesy of TCM
TCM 2010 & 2011
TCM's 2010 festival featured an opening night restoration of George Cukor's A Star Is Born (1954) starring Judy Garland and »
- Penelope Andrew
Defcon 2012 Filmmakers Predict Domination by December
31 March 2012 1:16 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
The 2010 film Defcon 2012 has suddenly experienced a bit of a rise in popularity due to its subject matter and the coming 2012 end-of-the-world prophecy. Check out what producers of the film had to say and see the ... unique ... trailer.
You certainly have to give this group points for exuberance. Read the press release below ... actually, watch the trailer first, then read the press release below. After that all you can do is sit back and watch Defcon 2012 take over the world. Give them a like on the official Defcon 2012 Facebook page and maybe they'll spare your life when they rule with an iron fist!
From the Press Release
Producer Carolina Ford Lichtenstein and Brian Shotwell's micro-budget and experimental science fiction film Defcon 2012 has become a smash international hit because of foreign distribution and sales. The story about a film director, his cast and crew vanishing on »
- Doctor Gash
Zorba the Greek and The Grapes of Wrath come to Blu-ray
21 March 2012 6:39 PM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Classic films Zorba the Greek and The Grapes of Wrath are getting the Blu-ray upgrade on June 5th from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Cinefiles and collectors can pre-order both films exclusively through Screen Archives to receive the Blu-ray in advance on April 3rd. Featuring unforgettable Oscar-nominated performances by Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn, these stunning masterpieces are a must-have for any film-lover.s library. The Grapes of Wrath: Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel .The Grapes of Wrath. by author John Steinbeck, the eponymous film is directed by four-time Academy Award winner John Ford and stars Henry Fonda, John Carradine, and Jane Darwell. The film won two Academy Awards including Best Director (John Ford) »
- Patrick Luce
Which Directors Have Gotten The Most Academy Award Nominations For Their Actors?
21 February 2012 1:03 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Who's the best director in Hollywood history? You could look at who's won the most Best Director Oscars -- that would be legendary John Ford, whose four wins include "The Grapes of Wrath," and "The Quiet Man" -- but perhaps there's another metric with which to judge. Moviefone took another look at Oscar statistics by counting which directors' films have resulted in the most acting nominations. By that count, Ford -- and famous directors like Francis Ford Coppola, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, and Clint Eastwood -- don't even make the Top 10. Who's directed the most actors to a nomination? The list might surprise you.
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- The Huffington Post
Oscars History: Directors Who Have Gotten The Most Acting Nominations (Photos)
21 February 2012 1:01 PM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Who's the best director in Hollywood history? You could look at who's won the most Best Director Oscars -- that would be legendary John Ford, whose four wins include "The Grapes of Wrath," and "The Quiet Man" -- but perhaps there's another metric with which to judge. Moviefone took another look at Oscar statistics by counting which directors' films have resulted in the most acting nominations. By that count, Ford -- and famous directors like Francis Ford Coppola, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, and Clint Eastwood -- don't even make the Top 10. Who's directed the most actors to a nomination? The list might surprise you. Photos: »
- Sharon Knolle
Alfred Hitchcock/Rebecca Remake
10 February 2012 1:03 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Hollywood has been running out of ideas since filmmakers started making movies in Hollywood. Even the first "official" movie made in Hollywood proper, Cecil B. DeMille's 1914 Western The Squaw Man, wasn't an original story. DeMille's Western was based on Edwin Milton Royle's play. And prior to that, there had been movie shorts with titles such as The Squaw and the Man (1910), Cow-boy and the Squaw (1910), and The Squaw Man's Sweetheart (1912). So, no one should be too surprised that remakes, adaptations, and reboots have been Hollywood staples for decades. And here's another remake in the works: DreamWorks and Working Title Films are to revisit (or reboot, as the case may be) Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 Best Picture Oscar winner Rebecca, which starred Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. As per Variety, Eastern Promises' screenwriter Steven Knight will use Daphne Du Maurier's novel as the source for the project, sort »
- Andre Soares
Contest: To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) Blu-ray: Gregory Peck
31 January 2012 3:00 AM, PST | Film-Book | See recent Film-Book news »
To Kill a Mockingbird Blu-ray Contest Giveaway Sweepstakes. This To Kill a Mockingbird: 50th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray contest, giveaway, sweepstakes illustrates To Kill a Mockingbird‘s release by Universal Studios Home Entertainment on Blu-ray and one (1) lucky winner will win it.
Robert Mulligan‘s To Kill a Mockingbird stars Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Ruth White, Brock Peters, Robert Duvall, and Richard Hale.
To Kill a Mockingbird‘s plot synopsis: “Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against a rape charge, and his kids against prejudice.”
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Jerry Lewis, Christopher Hitchens: Unfunny Women, Reactionary Men
13 January 2012 1:47 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
While accepting the award for Best Comedy for Bridesmaids at the 2012 Critics Choice Awards ceremony, Judd Apatow ended his speech with the following: "Jerry Lewis [photo] once said that he didn’t think women were funny. So I’d just like to say, with all respect, fuck you." Jerry Lewis' negative comment about female comedians was made at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen in 1998. During a Q&A session with Martin Short, Lewis said "I don't like any female comedians." What about Lucille Ball, Short asked? "No. A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world." This from the guy who grew up at a time when Carole Lombard, Irene Dunne, Katharine Hepburn, Jean Arthur, Claudette Colbert, Myrna Loy, Marie Dressler, »
- Andre Soares
What Makes A Movie Conservative?
13 January 2012 1:31 PM, PST | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Conservatives often complain that Hollywood is a hopeless miasma of liberalism, full of left-wingers who fill the screen with pinko propaganda, even though such content alienates half the audience and risks box office failure. (There's a whole news blog devoted to that proposition, Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood.) Yet a new list of the top conservative movies of the modern era not only finds plenty of mainstream Hollywood hits (so many that there's an even longer honorable-mention list on the side) but also plenty of films made by liberal directors and stars. Which suggests that ideology in movies is a much more ambiguous area than Hollywood's critics, from right or left, would acknowledge.
The list, made by Nile Gardiner at the Telegraph, is understandably Anglophilic; an American-made list might have swapped out "Chariots of Fire" for fellow sports-and-faith flick "The Blind Side," or gone with "Red Dawn" instead of fellow war-and-empire movie "Zulu. »
- Gary Susman
Bruce Springsteen Getting Angry Over Economic Justice
13 January 2012 6:54 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
The Boss has your back.
Bruce Springsteen, the blue collar poet laureate who has spent much of his forty year career singing about and for the working class men and women he grew up with in New Jersey, is said to have recorded a new album with the E Street Band that focuses squarely on the hard times being felt nationwide.
"He gets into economic justice quite a bit," a source with knowledge of the upcoming album told The Hollywood Reporter. "It's very rock'n' roll. He feels it's the angriest album he's ever made. Bear in mind, though, that [Springsteen] wrote and recorded the majority of the album before the Occupy movements started, so he's not just setting headlines to music."
Though he has not played an active part in the protests that broke out last fall, Springsteen has long emphasized the struggle for economic fairness in his songs.
In his song "Badlands, »
- Jordan Zakarin
Five Portrayals of Politicians In Movies
9 January 2012 11:11 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The news must have had every paid up member of the Conservative Party choking on their breakfast cup of tea. In a thousand Home Counties bungalows, men called Jeremy or Brian must have reached for their writing paper and fountain pens to compose a strongly worded letter to the Telegraph. The reason behind their outrage was the actress Meryl Streep. Or to put it more precisely, not Meryl Streep herself. Jeremy and Brian probably quite like Meryl Streep. What they can’t tolerate is the idea of Meryl Streep, American as crippling medical bills, donning a wig, putting on an accent and playing Margaret Thatcher.
The Iron Lady opens in cinemas this week. Opinion on Thatcher as a person might be divided, but opinion on Streep’s portrayal of the woman who invented Mr Whippy icecream and kicked the Argies out of a sodden little pile of rock called the Falklands, »
- Cath Murphy
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