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...of Citizen Kane , the IFI Temple Bar is currently running a season of Orson Welles films. Today, at 2pm, his 1944 thriller The Lady from Shanghai , will be shown. A stylish film noir,...

In this article: Orson Welles, The Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, Macbeth, Citizen Kane, and Rita Hayworth

...chased down by a machinegun wielding, crop-dusting plane, and dangled from the faces of Mount Rushmore? Alfred Hitchcock at one of his finest moments is what happens, and it all...

In this article: Alfred Hitchcock, Eva Marie Saint, Martin Landau, North by Northwest, On the Waterfront, Ernest Lehman, Bergdorf Goodman, and MGM

...at the renowned University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) looked to Wim Wenders or Rainer Werner Fassbinder for inspiration. Emmerich , who started out as a production designer,...

In this article: Roland Emmerich, Independence Day, John Cusack, The Day After Tomorrow, Hollywood, Germany, Ed Wood, University of Television and Film Munich, Google, and Wim Wenders

...St., Seattle ; $7-$9.50 (206-781-5755 or www.landmarktheatres.com). Meanwhile at "Metro Classics," Wong Kar-wai 's Hong Kong -set " Chungking Express " (1994), about cops snarled in love...

In this article: Seattle, Alain Cavalier, Norway, Argentina, France, World War II, and The Adventures of Prince Achmed

...rarely was one depicted truthfully. But I read the script and felt it needed it. Hitchcock liked it and he let me do my thing." At the time, Landau was only in his late 20s and...

In this article: Martin Landau, Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, North by Northwest, DVD, Lee Strasberg, Marlon Brando, Judd Apatow, and Actors Studio

...and after his death, Raimi took up the same tricks. Speaking of brothers, Raimi is good friends with the Coen brothers. He is married to Gillian Greene , daughter of the late Jewish...

In this article: Sam Raimi, Drag Me to Hell, Tim Burton, Dog, Alison Lohman, Spiderman, Snickers, and Banana

...goes on. This is the deceptively simple story told in grand yet subtle fashion by master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa in his classic 1954 work The Seven Samurai. I first discovered...

In this article: Akira Kurosawa, Yojimbo, Seven Samurai, Japan, Nova Southeastern University, Columbia University, and Salo Baron

...there's the pulsating score by Bernard Herrmann , one of the great screen composer's most evocative works. In fact, Alfred Hitchcock's romantic thriller " North by Northwest " is so...

In this article: Martin Landau, Eva Marie Saint, Cary Grant, Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest, James Mason, Don Draper, Oscar, and Styrofoam

...| Episode 8 | Aired on 2009.11.03 You remember the one thing that made the last episode worth watching? Well , forget it. DJ Hottie gets way too into the illegitimate pregnancy.

...of several offices because he had all the storyboards on the walls." The actor was surprised Hitchcock chose him to play Leonard. "That character in the play was 180 degrees from the...

In this article: Martin Landau, Eva Marie Saint, North by Northwest, Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Oscar, James Mason, Don Draper, DVD, and Blu-ray

... Lehman commentary, an hour long documentary on the making of the film , as well as a look at Cary Grant's career and Alfred Hitchcock mythos. But it's the chance to see North By Northwest...

In this article: North by Northwest, Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, Ernest Lehman, Blu-ray, Martin Landau, and DVD

...Body" - written by Diablo Cody , whose " Juno " made a star of Page - and drama in the title role of Atom Egoyan's " Chloe " (no release date yet set). Audrey Tautou. Better known than...

In this article: Meryl Streep, Ellen Page, Carey Mulligan, Audrey Tautou, Amanda Seyfried, Juno, John Keats, Emily Blunt, Abbie Cornish, and Kimberly Peirce

...his next film would be called You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. We ran into him last night at the Martin Scorsese -hosted screening of The Red Shoes at the DGA Theater, and asked him what...

In this article: Woody Allen, Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, and Martin Scorsese

The 58th edition of the Mannheim- Heidelberg international film festival will honor Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan with the "Master of Cinema" award at the ceremony on November 6.

In this article: New York City, Germany, Zombieland, All Good Things, International Film Festival, MovieMaker, Golden Horse Awards, Aaron Stanford, Jesse Eisenberg, and Zoe Lister-Jones

...after trotting to my local movie palace some months back for Allen 's latest astringent 92-minute laffer, Whate... If Woody Allen was born in the 80s, is there any doubt that he 'd be a...

In this article: Philip Roth, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Whatever Works, Lolita, Frank Sinatra, The Human Stain, Manhattan, and Soon-Yi Previn

...the film and Hitchcock 's tension-ratcheting style. The segments include efficient interviews with Martin Scorsese , John Carpenter , and others, but clips with Hitchcock are the highlight.

In this article: Alfred Hitchcock, DVD, Wim Wenders, Tony Scott, Cary Grant, John Travolta, Blu-ray, Bruno Ganz, Peter Falk, and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Once upon a time Sam Raimi wasn't the boring, franchise-friendly director on display in those anemic " Spiderman " movies. No, Raimi started out as a wild man of excess; his debut film,...

In this article: Sam Raimi, Drag Me to Hell, Alison Lohman, Spiderman, Hallucination, Evil Dead, and Three Stooges

...wing; another week, an elderly woman could invite death into her house. Performers included veterans such as Ida Lupino and newcomers like Robert Redford and William Shatner. "He created...

In this article: Rod Serling, Marc Scott Zicree, The Twilight Zone, Ray Bradbury, The Twilight Zone, Mike Wallace, Confucius, Emmy, and Requiem for a Heavyweight

Banderas, Brolin welcome Woody Allen's "Stranger" By Pamela Rolfe MADRID (Hollywood Reporter) - Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin , Anthony Hopkins and Naomi Watts will star in Woody Allen's...

In this article: Woody Allen, Josh Brolin, Freida Pinto, Whatever Works, Gemma Jones, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Lucy Punch, Anthony Hopkins, Larry David, and Naomi Watts

..."Der Mull, die Stadt und der Tod," has caused a stir within some German-Jewish communities. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's play, "Der Mull, die Stadt und der Tod" will finally debut on...

In this article: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Oberhausen, Mulheim, and World War II