Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will open the 2014 edition of the TCM Classic Film Festival with the world premiere of a brand new restoration of the beloved Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! (1955). TCM’s own Robert Osborne, who serves as official host for the festival, will introduce Oklahoma!, with the film’s star, Academy Award®-winner Shirley Jones, in attendance. Vanity Fair will also return for the fifth year as a festival partner and co-presenter of the opening night after-party. Marking its fifth year, the TCM Classic Film Festival will take place April 10-13, 2014, in Hollywood. The gathering will coincide withTCM’s 20th anniversary as a leading authority in classic film.
In addition, the festival has added several high-profile guests to this year’s lineup, including Oscar®-winning director William Friedkin, who will attend for the screening of the U.S. premiere restoration of his suspenseful cult classic Sorcerer (1977); Kim Novak, who...
In addition, the festival has added several high-profile guests to this year’s lineup, including Oscar®-winning director William Friedkin, who will attend for the screening of the U.S. premiere restoration of his suspenseful cult classic Sorcerer (1977); Kim Novak, who...
- 2/14/2014
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Kim Novak to attend Cannes 2013 Vertigo screening Kim Novak will be in attendance at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, festival organizers have announced. Novak will be present at a Cannes Classics screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 psychological thriller Vertigo, which has been recently restored. For all it’s worth, Vertigo was the top movie at the most recent (2012) Sight & Sound decennial poll of film critics and filmmakers. (Photo: Kim Novak Vertigo.) Vertigo was also a source of controversy in early 2012, when Kim Novak took out an ad in one of the trade publications claiming she felt she had been violated ("I want to report a rape") after finding bits from Bernard Herrmann’s Vertigo music in Ludovic Bource’s eventually Oscar-winning The Artist score. Besides the Vertigo screening, Kim Novak will also be a presenter at Cannes’ closing ceremony on Sunday, May 26. According to the festival’s press release, Novak first...
- 4/23/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
MGM/Fox will release the unrated version of the hard-drinking 1995 drama-romance film Leaving Las Vegas on Blu-ray on May 10 following its three-month exclusive availability through retail giant Best Buy.
Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue are two wounded souls in love in Leaving Las Vegas.
Nicolas Cage (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portray of Ben Sanderson in the movie, a down-and-out Hollywood exec/screenwriter who abandons his life and heads to Vegas to literally drink himself to death. While in Sin City, he meets a similarly troubled soul, a prostitute named Sera (Oscar-nominated Elisabeth Shue of Piranha), and the two embark on a love affair that sadly has a very limited lifespan.
A super-low-budget and undeniably arty production based on John O’Brien’s 1990 novel, Leaving Las Vegas was shot on grainy 16mm and we’re really interested to see how this translates onto Blu-ray.
Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue are two wounded souls in love in Leaving Las Vegas.
Nicolas Cage (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portray of Ben Sanderson in the movie, a down-and-out Hollywood exec/screenwriter who abandons his life and heads to Vegas to literally drink himself to death. While in Sin City, he meets a similarly troubled soul, a prostitute named Sera (Oscar-nominated Elisabeth Shue of Piranha), and the two embark on a love affair that sadly has a very limited lifespan.
A super-low-budget and undeniably arty production based on John O’Brien’s 1990 novel, Leaving Las Vegas was shot on grainy 16mm and we’re really interested to see how this translates onto Blu-ray.
- 4/12/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Actress Kim Novak has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Novak, best known for her starring role in the 1958 classic "Vertigo", is undergoing cancer treatment and is expected to make a full recovery, according to her manager, Sue Cameron.
Cameron tells The Hollywood Reporter: "It was caught early by a routine yearly mammogram and is undergoing treatment. All her doctors say she is in fantastic physical shape and should recover very well."
Novak, 77, has also featured in notable films including Picnic, Pal Joey and Bell, Book and Candle. She last appeared in "Liebestraum" in 1991, but her scenes were cut following a dispute with director Mike Figgis.
Cameron tells The Hollywood Reporter: "It was caught early by a routine yearly mammogram and is undergoing treatment. All her doctors say she is in fantastic physical shape and should recover very well."
Novak, 77, has also featured in notable films including Picnic, Pal Joey and Bell, Book and Candle. She last appeared in "Liebestraum" in 1991, but her scenes were cut following a dispute with director Mike Figgis.
- 10/20/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
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