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SPhilip French's Screen Legend: Grace Kelly

12 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

No 77: Grace Kelly 1929-82

Born in Philadelphia, the beautiful daughter of a model and a self-made Irish-American multi-millionaire who won gold medals as an Olympic oarsman, Kelly was Hollywood's ice queen of the McCarthy era, a cold war figure of upper-middle-class Catholic rectitude. One uncle was the vaudeville star Walter Kelly, another the Pulitzer-winning playwright, George Kelly, and she determined on an acting career while at college. In the late 40s and early 50s she worked as a model and on live New York TV. She entered the movies playing a minor role in Fourteen Hours in 1951, just after the banishment of Ingrid Bergman, the Hitchcock blonde who preceded her, and she retired in 1956, the year Bergman returned in triumph.

She grew up in a world of cafe society where show people, media folk, the nouveau-riches and other conspicuous consumers mingle, and she didn't leave it when, in a carefully engineered marriage, »

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Ernest Borgnine at From Here To Eternity Screening

23 November 2009 2:35 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

Ernest Borgnine and Lou Diamond Phillips pose next to a poster of Fred Zinnemann’s From Here to Eternity, prior to a screening of the 1953 classic presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wednesday, November 18, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Phillips hosted the event. Winner of the 1953 best picture Oscar and one of the biggest blockbusters of the 1950s, From Here to Eternity stars Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, and Academy Award winners Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed. Ernest Borgnine has a supporting role in the film as a military officer who makes life hell for both Clift and Sinatra. Two years later, Borgnine would win a [...] »

- Anna Robinson

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A Man for All Seasons: less piety would have been More

19 November 2009 12:00 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

This 1966 drama ticks most of the right boxes when it comes to entertaining as well as educating. Pity they didn't let Thomas More be more scatalogical than saintly

Director: Fred Zinnemann

Entertainment grade: B

History grade: A–

Sir Thomas More was a lawyer and scholar at the court of King Henry VIII. As a devout Catholic, he had serious reservations about the king's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and remarriage to Anne Boleyn. He was found guilty of high treason and executed in 1535. In 1935, he was canonised as St Thomas More.

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Luck and Tudor obstetrics have failed to provide Henry with a son. He blames the queen, and wants to dump her. Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield) is summoned to Hampton Court to see the chancellor, Cardinal Wolsey (Orson Welles). "England needs an heir!" bellows the spherical cardinal, resembling, in his bright scarlet robes and pointy hat, The Attack of the Killer Tomato. »

- Alex von Tunzelmann

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Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift: From Here To Eternity Screening

9 November 2009 4:24 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »

Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster make love in From Here to Eternity(top); Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra do a little (sorta) lovemaking of their own later on in the film (bottom) Fred Zinnemann’s 1953 Academy Award-winning drama From Here to Eternity, starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, and Frank Sinatra, will be screened by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wednesday, November 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The presentation will feature the premiere of a new digital restoration, as well as an onstage discussion with Ernest Borgnine, who has a supporting role in the film. Adapted by Daniel Taradash from James Jones‘ bestselling [...] »

- Andre Soares

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Georgina Spelvin- A Devilish Delight!

21 May 2009 7:28 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

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By Graham Hill

If you were talking about the devil back in 1973, chances are you’d be referring to a notorious Christmas present that Warner Brothers was about to unleash: The Exorcist. In fact, 1973 was chock-full of presents from Hollywood.  The Sting had dominated most of the box-office that year and would go on to steal most of the Academy Awards including best picture. A new up -and-coming director named George Lucas had left a lasting impression with American Graffiti. Clint Eastwood was riding high both as the High Plains Drifter and the cop with the big gun in Magnum Force, whilst legendary director Fred Zinnemann hit his target artistically (if not at the box-office) with his classic thriller The Day of the Jackal.

Then you have that “other” devil that everyone was talking about, The Devil in Miss Jones.  Now -to give the devil his due, »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

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The Ultimate Guide to TCM's 31 Days of Oscar Begins Here

31 January 2009 5:56 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

From this Sunday, February 1 through Tuesday, March 3 Turner Classic Movies (TCM) begins their annual 31 Days of Oscar, which brings you night after night of Oscar winning and nominated films uncut and commercial free on TCM and I have put together for you a mini guide for films to look for each day so you can either sit down and enjoy them as they play or set your DVR to record them for later. Either way, this is a great way to knock off so many of those classic films from your must see list. First, how about the TCM video montage preview. Can you name the films?

Now, for the full schedule you can click here to download the Pdf or you can browse TCM's online calendar at the 31 Days of Oscar official site. Because one thing is for sure, even though I list films for every single day below »

- Brad Brevet

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