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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 »
Steven Spielberg discusses War Horse
10 April 2012 10:07 PM, PDT | The Movie Pool | See recent The Movie Pool news »
In this Q&A, director Steven Spielberg discusses his latest film War Horse.
Steven Spielberg is one of the movie industry’s most successful and influential filmmakers, as well as a principal partner of DreamWorks Studios. He is the top-grossing director of all time, having helmed blockbusters including Jaws, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones franchise and Jurassic Park.
For his most recent project, the three-time Academy Award winner traveled to England to shoot the wartime movie, War Horse, based on the novel and Broadway play about a horse on an odyssey during World War I. The distinguished director recently discussed the film and revealed what attracted him to the epic project.
Q: It’s very rare that a project is successful as a novel, as a play and as a movie – but War Horse is all three. Why do you think the story is so versatile?
Spielberg: The bones »
- feeds@themoviepool.com (Victor Medina)
Review: Criterion Presents "David Lean Directs NOËL Coward" On Blu-ray And DVD
25 March 2012 3:39 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
On Blu-ray and DVD
4-Disk Box Set
Any fan of British cinema must celebrate Criterion’s deluxe packaging of David Lean’s first four films as a director. These collaborations with writer, performer, and “personality” Noël Coward are exemplary examples of the fine work made by the Two Cities Unit production house, which was formed during the Second World War. In each case, the films are presented in beautiful new high-definition digital transfers from the 2008 BFI National Archive’s restorations. And, as this is a review for Cinema Retro, the readers of which include many 007 fans, it must be pointed out that there is indeed a connection between the films (three of them, anyway) and Bond. Actress Celia Johnson was Ian Fleming’s sister-in-law (her husband was Ian’s older brother, Peter Fleming), and her daughters Kate Grimond and Lucy Fleming are currently on the Board of »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Michael Monahan Talks Horror Hosts and More
7 March 2012 10:22 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Horror fans today are spoiled. With the vast array of films available on DVD and Blu-ray via storefronts like Best Buy and Fye, online outlets like Amazon and Deep Discount, and rental/streaming services such as Netflix, there are few films that are unattainable. Virtually anything one might hear of is available some way, somewhere. But it wasn't always so...
Back at a time before disc (or VHS for that matter), the only way - and I mean the Only way - to see classic and not so classic genre pictures was on broadcast television. As a kid, I remember getting the local TV Guide and a yellow highlighter and systematically going through the listings, marking each and every show time of movies I'd heard about either from friends or ones that were obliquely mentioned in Forry Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland . I would meticulously go over each entry »
- Carnell
Oscars Sell For Over $3 Million
29 February 2012 6:05 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Los Angeles -- Fifteen Academy Awards statuettes from the 1930s and '40s, including the Best Screenplay Oscar given to Herman Mankiewicz for "Citizen Kane," have been sold at a Los Angeles auction.
Auction house Nate D. Sanders said Tuesday that the sales totaled more than $3 million.
Mankiewicz's 1941 award sold for $588,455, more than double its auction price from 1999.
The 1941 Best Picture award, for "How Green Was My Valley," went for $274,520. It was last sold in 2004 for $95,600.
A statuette for "Cavalcade," 1933's Best Picture, brought in $332,165.
Other Oscars on the block were Ronald Colman's 1947 Best Actor award for "A Double Life" and Charles Coburn's Best Supporting Actor statuette for "The More the Merrier" in 1943. »
- AP
Golden-era Oscars sold for $3m at auction
29 February 2012 2:53 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Statuettes dating from before 1950, including one of two awards for Citizen Kane, fetch high prices at auction
An auction of 15 Oscars from Hollywood's golden era has produced record-breaking receipts of more than $3m.
The statuettes all dated prior to 1950, the year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences introduced rules intended to prohibit the sale of Oscars. The highlight of the auction was the sale of Herman Mankiewicz's 1941 best screenplay statuette for Citizen Kane, which went for $588,455. Orson Welles' twin Oscar for the same prize reached $861,542 when it was sold in December: both are considered valuable because they represent the only Academy Awards won by Welles' film, widely considered one of the greatest of all time.
Also up for grabs were How Green Was My Valley's best picture Oscar from 1941, which went for $274,520, and Cavalcade's 1933 gong for the same prize, which brought in $332,165. The oldest of the Oscars on sale, »
- Ben Child
Oscar statuettes sold for $3 mn in auction - Realbollywood.com News
29 February 2012 12:58 AM, PST | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
Los Angeles, Feb 29: A collection of 15 Oscar statuettes which were handed out to recipients, including the writer for "Citizen Kane", fetched more than $3 million at an auction here Tuesday, two days after the 84th Academy Awards ceremony.
A statuette which was won by Herman Mankiewicz for penning the script for the 1941 best screenplay winner "Citizen Kane", grossed $588,455, the highest bid at the event held by Beverly Hills-based auctioneer Nate D. Sanders, according to the auction house.
The record number of gold statuettes which were sold out included those awarded for such classics as "How Green Was My Valley". »
- Machan Kumar
Oscars 2012: All-Time Most Controversial Winners
24 February 2012 11:41 PM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
From 'Shakespeare in Love' to 'Crash,' a look back at the Academy Awards' most memorable upsets.
By Kevin P. Sullivan
Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes in "Shakespeare in Love"
Photo: Miramax
Not every Academy Awards winner is met with praise and cinematic glory. Some past winners have come as surprises and even major disappointments to the audience, and among these, a handful will go down in history as outright injustices.
Though a surprise victory on Oscar night can be thrilling, it can also deeply upset the viewers at home who've picked their favorites. As we gear up for the 2012 Oscars, here's a look back at some of the most controversial wins in Academy Awards history.
"How Green Was My Valley" Upsets "Citizen Kane" (Best Picture)
Even though "Citizen Kane" has been touted as the greatest American movie of all time by the American Film Institute, back in »
The Countdown: Shoulda Won the Oscar
24 February 2012 11:24 AM, PST | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
The Academy Awards are this weekend and everybody's got an opinion on who should win Best Picture. The Countdown looks back at some of the most contentious winners and losers in Oscar history. Here's our Shoulda Won the Oscar list:
1998: Saving Private Ryan instead of Shakespeare in Love
1990: Goodfellas instead of Dances with Wolves
2005: Brokeback Mountain instead of Crash
1979: Apocalypse Now instead of Kramer vs. Kramer
2009: Avatar instead of The Hurt Locker
2010: The Social Network instead of The King’s Speech
1941: Citizen Kane instead of How Green Was My Valley
2002: The Pianist instead of Chicago
1981: Reds instead of Chariots of Fire
1994: The Shawshank Redemption or Pulp Fiction instead of Forrest Gump
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More Oscars To Find New Homes On Tuesday
23 February 2012 11:39 AM, PST | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
Two days after this year’s Oscars are handed out, 14 additional Oscars will be awarded to the winning bidders of a Hollywood memorabilia auction — believed to be twice the total number of Oscar trophies that have been sold to date. The sale, being featured online by the Los Angeles auction house Nate D. Sanders, which sold Orson Welles’s screenwriting Oscar for Citizen Kane in December for $861,000, includes the companion Oscar to co-writer Herman Mankiewicz (although both Welles and Mankiewicz claimed to be the sole writers of the movie). Bids have already been submitted for the auction with the Mankiewicz Oscar leading the pack with $142,042. Since 1951 Oscar winners have been required to sign an agreement to offer to sell their statuettes first to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for $10 — but the 14 Oscars currently on the block were all awarded well before that year. The oldest is the best director award to Norman Taurog for Skippy, handed out in 1932, during the fourth Oscar ceremony (two years before Hollywood gossip columnist Sydney Skolsky gave the trophy its name). The 1933 Oscar for best picture, Cavalcade, is also up for sale, with a current bid of $106,718, as is the best picture Oscar for 1941′s How Green Was My Valley, the film that beat Citizen Kane. Bids for the Oscars can be submitted online at www.NateDSanders.com or by phone at (310) 440-2982. The highest price ever paid for an Oscar was $1.54 million for the best picture award to Gone with the Wind — purchased at auction in 1999 by Michael Jackson. »
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Oscar's 13 Biggest Mistakes
20 February 2012 9:00 AM, PST | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
For every winner who leaps up to thank the Academy, at least four nominees stay behind -- and with them, countless audience members wondering why their favorites failed to snag the big award. But there are times when everyone -- maybe even the winner -- believes the wrong name was read and the Oscar should have gone to... someone else.
We've picked 13 unlucky times the Academy made a huge, irreversible mistake, whether out of misguided loyalty to an actor-turned-director, fear of bestowing the Oscar to a violent or controversial film, or for no discernible reason at all (in no particular order).
'Ordinary People' Over 'Raging Bull' (Best Picture, 1980)
Robert Redford's family drama beat Martin Scorsese's sweeping boxing epic in a decision that still leaves Oscar buffs shaking their heads in confusion. "Ordinary People" was a fine study of familial dysfunction, but its popularity arose »
- Sandie Angulo Chen
Sex fixer to the stars lifts lid on scandal in Hollywood's golden age
2 February 2012 3:30 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Scotty Bowers has kept quiet for 60 years but now, at 88, he's talking about bedding the biggest screen icons of the day
Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn had just one thing in common – apart from being movie superstars.
But that one thing wasn't the fairytale romance that Hollywood falsely spun for the public to keep their images clean, apparently.
They both used a handsome young gas station attendant for sex – in Tracy's case personally, and in Hepburn's case to procure her gay lovers, up to 150 of them over a lifetime.
This is just one revelation in a controversial memoir to be published later this month by an old man called Scotty Bowers, who was that gas station attendant, but also a gigolo and sex fixer to the stars during Hollywood's golden age.
He has kept his mouth shut for 60 years but now, at 88, he's talking. And how.
The result is a »
- Joanna Walters
Hearst family forgive Orson Welles for Citizen Kane after 71 years
24 January 2012 4:07 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Screening of Welles' masterpiece at former home of William Randolph Hearst will lay to rest long-running feud
When Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane first hit cinemas in 1941, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst was distinctly unimpressed: the similarities between himself and Welles' creation Charles Foster Kane were too strong to be ignored. The powerful press baron went out of his way to derail the movie. Now, more than 70 years later, it seems that the family of the pre-eminent Us media impresario of the early part of the last century has finally forgiven Welles after agreeing to a screening of Citizen Kane at the Hearst Castle visitor centre in California.
The screening on 9 March will be part of the San Luis Obispo international film festival, which takes place each year in the central Californian region where Hearst's ornate former home is located. The castle was donated to the state in 1957, six years after its owner's death, »
- Ben Child
War Horse is my first truly British film, says Steven Spielberg
9 January 2012 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The first world war epic filmed in Devon and Wiltshire could only have been made in the UK, according to the director
It was filmed in Devon and Wiltshire, is packed with the UK's top acting talent and saw the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at its royal premiere on Sunday night. Now director Steven Spielberg has said that he regards War Horse as his first truly British film.
"This could only have been shot in England," he told a press conference in London on Monday morning. "After I heard the reaction last night at the Odeon in Leicester Square, I realised that I'd made my first British film with War Horse. Through and through."
Spielberg said the epic had been inspired in part by John Ford's Welsh-set 1941 film How Green Was My Valley. Like his heroes Ford and David Lean, he had attempted to use the British countryside »
- Alex Needham
Set Visit: Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance
5 January 2012 8:07 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
We travel to Bucharest, Romania to visit Nicolas Cage and the rest of the cast on the set of Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance
Johnny Blaze will ride again! Scheduled for release on February 17th is Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance, the long-awaited sequel to '2007s anti-superhero film Ghost Rider, which was based on the popular Marvel Comics character and starred Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage, and Eva Mendes. In the original film, Nicolas Cage plays Johnny Blaze, a stunt motorcyclist who sells his soul to the Devil and as a result, transforms into the flaming vigilante Ghost Rider. While the first movie was a financial success earning over $200 million at the box office, it was a critical disaster and failed to score with fans of the original source material. However, with only Nicolas Cage returning for the sequel from the original cast, and new directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor »
- MovieWeb
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