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7 May 2013 3:41 AM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Oscar winners Olivia de Havilland and Luise Rainer among movie stars of the 1930s still alive With the passing of Deanna Durbin this past April, only a handful of movie stars of the 1930s remain on Planet Earth. Below is a (I believe) full list of surviving Hollywood "movie stars of the 1930s," in addition to a handful of secondary players, chiefly those who achieved stardom in the ensuing decade. Note: There’s only one male performer on the list — and curiously, four of the five child actresses listed below were born in April. (Please scroll down to check out the list of Oscar winners at the 75th Academy Awards, held on March 23, 2003, as seen in the picture above. Click on the photo to enlarge it. © A.M.P.A.S.) Two-time Oscar winner and London resident Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth, The Great Waltz), 103 last January »
- Andre Soares
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
27 March 2013 11:48 AM, PDT | The Backlot | See recent The Backlot news »
We've all got to do our part to help with the Scotus situation today, kids. I know I'm doing mine: Here are eight fabulous female performanes in courtroom movies to inspire you for the day ahead. Even if they drive younuts, you still qualify to look glamorously insane like Frances Farmer.
1. Meryl Streep in Kramer vs. Kramer
Joanna Kramer ditched her family not because she was bored of parenting (which I would've completely understood), but because her despair was so significant that she felt it best to remove herself from the home she shared with her obnoxious husband and tolerable son. Later, when she wanted custody of the scamp, she delivered a tearful monologue about painting clouds on bedroom walls and the misery of the Kramer household, concluding with the defiant line, "I am his mother." Meryl famously wrote most of this great soliloquy, and knowing Meryl's talents, she probably also sewed her own costume, »
- virtel
31 January 2013 9:16 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film
As jamborees go, the Sundance film festival is one of the odder ones: a bunch of indie film-makers take over a tiny skiing town in Utah, whereupon a legion of Hollywood A-listers show up in dark glasses hoping a) to leech a little of that ice-cool indie cred or b) snap up next year's in-from-nowhere sensation. In column b) put Don Jon's Addiction, Joseph Gordon Levitt's directorial debut - but as is the Sundance way, an insane bidding war erupted. More usefully, the feeling seemed to be that Sundance had got a little hot and bothered this year, what with Don Jon, Lovelace, The Look of Love and Interior. Leather Bar. (Incidentally, is the latter an emperor's new clothes moment for James Franco, what with that poem and all?) Yet more hilarity was provided »
30 January 2013 5:06 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
It may be guilty of a little make-believe, but Stanley Kramer's masterpiece does justice to the real-life Nazi judges' trial
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Director: Stanley Kramer
Entertainment grade: B+
History grade: A
The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals carried out by Allied forces against military and administrative officials and private contractors of Nazi Germany. They took place between 1945 and 1949.
Justice
It's 1948, and American judge Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracy) arrives in Nuremberg. "Hitler is gone, Goebbels is gone, Goering is gone – committed suicide before they could hang him," he says. "Now we're down to the business of judging the doctors, businessmen and judges. Some people think they shouldn't be judged at all." The most attention-grabbing of the Nuremberg trials was that of the major war criminals in 1945-46. This film is about the judges' trial, which actually took place over the course of 1947. The date has been changed for a reason. »
- Alex von Tunzelmann
24 January 2013 12:57 PM, PST | The Backlot | See recent The Backlot news »
Ten men. Ten Oscars. Ten eternal images of hotness that I'm happy to rank.
You'll be either excited or depressed to learn that the idea of a hot Best Actor Oscar winner is mostly a recent invention. There are some Oscar-winning studs from the the '30s and '40s, but you see plenty more GQ-ready gents in the Academy Award-winning roles of the '90s and 2000s. So without further ado, let's take another trip back and time and count down the 10 hottest "Best Actor" winners.
10. Russell Crowe, Gladiator
Perhaps his performance in Les Miserables is preventing me from ranking him higher, but Russell Crowe was the picture of macho angst and valor in Gladiator. Gotta love when an actor finds the perfect forum to vent his infamous angst.
9. Colin Firth, The King's Speech
I'm often too charmed by Colin Firth's character and inteligence to notice the obvious: »
- virtel
12 January 2013 7:55 AM, PST | Cinelinx | See recent Cinelinx news »
Our daily countdown of the 300 Greatest Films Ever Made continues with part 11 out of 30. These are numbers 200-191.
200) Some Like It Hot (1959) Billy Wilder USA
199) Spartacus (1960) Stanley Kubrick USA
198) Princess Mononoke (1997) Hayao Miyazaki Japan Animated
197) Judgement At Nuremberg (1961) Stanley Kramer USA
196) Sansho The Bailiff (1954) Kenji Mizoguchi Japan
195) Fitzcarraldo (1982) Werner Herzog USA
194) Tootsie (1982) Stanley Pollack USA
193) Ghostbusters (1984) Ivan Reitman USA
192) The Planet Of The Apes (1968) Frank Schaffner USA *
191) The Producers (1968) Mel Brooks USA
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7 items from 2013
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