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20 May 2013 5:00 AM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »

Before you read this column today, go watch Spencer Tracy in Father of the Bride or A Guy Named Joe, or Thirty Seconds Over Toyko, or Bad Day At Black Rock, or Adam’s Rib or Judgment At Nuremberg  or Inherit The Wind.

Katherine Hepburn said to Spencer Tracy “you were, really, the greatest movie actor. I say this because I believe it and I’ve heard so many people of standing in our business say, it from Olivier to Lee Strasberg, David Lean, you name it. You could do it, and you could do it with that glorious simplicity, that directness.” Elizabeth Taylor said, “His acting seemed almost effortless, it seemed almost as if he wasn’t doing anything, and yet he was doing everything. It came so subtly out of his eyes, every muscle in his face…” Richard Widmark said “”It’s what every actor tries to strive »

- Mindy Newell

29 April 2013 5:43 AM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »

Before you read this column today, go watch Spencer Tracy in Father of the Bride or A Guy Named Joe, or Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, or Bad Day At Black Rock, or Adam’s Rib, or Judgment At Nuremberg, or Inherit The Wind.

Katherine Hepburn said to Spencer Tracy “you were, really, the greatest movie actor.  I say this because I believe it and I’ve heard so many people of standing in our business say it – from Olivier to Lee Strasberg, David Lean, name it.  You could do it, and you could do it with that glorious simplicity, that directness.”  Elizabeth Taylor said, “His acting seemed almost effortless, it seemed almost as if he wasn’t doing anything, and yet he was doing everything. It came so subtly out of his eyes, every muscle in his face…”  Richard Widmark said “It’s what every actor tries to strive for – to make it so simple, »

- Mindy Newell

10 April 2013 4:28 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

I've mentioned before how several years ago I created a list using Roger Ebert's Great Movies, Oscar Best Picture winners, IMDb's Top 250, etc. and began going through them doing my best to see as many of the films on these lists that I had not seen as I possibly could to up my film I.Q. Well, someone has gone through the exhaustive effort to take all of the films Roger Ebert wrote about in his three "Great Movies" books, all of which are compiled on his website and added them to a Letterbxd list and I've added that list below. I'm not positive every movie on his list is here, but by my count there are 363 different titles listed (more if you count the trilogies, the Up docs and Decalogue) and of those 363, I have personally seen 229 and have added an * next to those I've seen. Clearly I have some work to do, »

- Brad Brevet

10 April 2013 4:28 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

I've mentioned before how several years ago I created a list using Roger Ebert's Great Movies, Oscar Best Picture winners, IMDb's Top 250, etc. and began going through them doing my best to see as many of the films on these lists that I had not seen as I possibly could to up my film I.Q. Well, someone has gone through the exhaustive effort to take all of the films Roger Ebert wrote about in his three "Great Movies" books, all of which are compiled on his website and added them to a Letterbxd list and I've added that list below. I'm not positive every movie on his list is here, but by my count there are 362 different titles listed (more if you count the trilogies and Decalogue) and of those 362, I have personally seen 229 and have added an * next to those I've seen. Clearly I have some work to do, »

- Brad Brevet

31 March 2013 7:04 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

1998 Best Actress Academy Award nominee stages a political protest -- a 'lesbian kiss' -- at an awards ceremony in Rio de Janeiro Forget Madonna and Britney Spears, Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep, Bullock and Scarlett Johansson, and Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. Veteran Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro, best known around the world for her performance as a bitter old hag in Walter Salles' 1998 drama Central Station, which earned her a Best Actress Oscar nod, kissed fellow veteran performer Camila Amado in the mouth at Rio de Janeiro's Theater Producers Association Awards ceremony, which took place in that Brazilian city this past Monday, March 25. (Pictured above: Montenegro kissing Amado.) The mouth-to-mouth kiss between the 83-year-old Montenegro and the 77-year-old Amado, followed a previous "gay kiss" also staged at the awards show -- that one between performers Ricardo Blat and Tonico Pereira. All that kissing wasn't intended to merely liven up »

- Andre Soares

20 March 2013 11:16 AM, PDT | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »

Monkeyshines! week continues at Trailers from Hell with director Brian Trenchard-Smith introducing Stanley Kramer's multiple Oscar nominee "Inherit the Wind," starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March and Gene Kelly verbally duking it out during a fictionalized account of the Scopes monkey trial.1960 audiences who saw Stanley Kramer's film version of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's fictionalized 1955 theatrical treatment of the 1925 Scopes monkey trial assumed that its pro-Darwin evolutionary stance was theoretically accepted by the broad population. But over 50 years later we find, incredibly, that the argument is still not settled. A 1988 tv movie remake starred Kirk Douglas and Jason Robards, and another in 1999 featured Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott. In any case, neither were as effective as Kramer's well-cast production, which was popular in its day and still makes for riveting viewing. »

- Trailers From Hell

1 February 2013 6:00 AM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »

“Movie 43” may only be remembered as a critical whipping boy, but to understand the true potential of what a seemingly random cavalcade of stars can bring to a collective project, the gold standard still remains 1963's “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.” Produced and directed by “Inherit the Wind” helmer Stanley Kramer, the film begins in an appropriately audacious manner, with a car flying off the road, twisting through the air and finishing with a dust-plume crash. The only motorists to witness the crash come to the aid of the fallen driver (Jimmy Durante), only to find out the main’s dying confession: that a tax-free cache of $350,000 is buried a day’s ride away, ready to be claimed by whoever can get there first. It’s a simple set-up, but an execution that soon spirals playfully out of control just as fast as the dead man’s car. »

- Steve Greene

13 January 2013 1:13 PM, PST | Cinelinx | See recent Cinelinx news »

Our daily January countdown continues with part 12 out of 300 in our list of the 300 Greatest Films Ever Made. These are numbers 190-181.

190)  Wall-e (2008) Andrew Stanton USA Animated

189) Forbidden Planet (1956) Fred McCloud USA

188) The Mark Of Zorro (1940) Reuben Mamoulian USA

187) Goodfellows (1990) Martin Scorsese USA

186) The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) Jack Arnold USA

185) Finding Nemo (2003) Andrew Stanton USA Animated

184) The Birds (1963) Alfred Hitchcock USA

183) In The Heat Of The Night (1967) Norman Jewison USA

182) Inherit The Wind (1960) Stanley Kramer USA

181) The Sweet Smell Of Success (1957) Alex Makendrick USA

Numbers 180-171 coming next.

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8 items from 2013