While The French Connection certainly deserves to be described as tough, edgy, profane and explosive, somewhat slow should be added as well. Te action doesn’t start right away; instead; director William Friedkin (The Exorcist) and screenwriter Ernest Tidyman (High Plains…
The Godfather Collection – The Coppola Restoration has to be one of the best Blu-ray releases of 2008. Parts I and II are arguably two of the greatest films ever made, and now the entire trilogy is available remastered, with…
Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in association with the Film Department of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, will present “A Centennial Tribute to Bette Davis” on Thursday, May 1, at 8…
Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a 40th anniversary screening of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” on Friday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Tom Hanks, whose…
Beverly Hills, CA — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has launched a branded Oscars® channel on YouTube™ –www.YouTube.com/Oscars – featuring Academy Awards® show highlights and exclusive video interviews with members from each of the Academy’s branches. Participants…
Synopsis: From his Academy Award-nominated “On the Ropes”, to his singular blend of fact and legend in the Robert Evans portrait “The Kid Stays in the Picture,” Brett Morgen has explored increasingly provocative ways to transform documentary materials into new…
I recently read and reviewed Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King. Few would argue that the Academy award nominated director made some wonderful films in over fifty years in the movie business. However, As Otto grew older, he…