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Loews Jersey City Presents Classic Ghost Films This Weekend: "The Innocents", "The Ghost And Mrs. Muir" And "The Uninvited"

25 March 2009 3:46 AM, PDT | From Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news

Peter Wyngarde and Deborah Kerr in The Innocents.

Remember when ghost stories were created through use of imaginative techniques instead of the blood-soaked CGI special effects employed by today's filmmakers? The Loews Jersey City Theatre, a restored movie palace just minutes from Manhattan, will be presenting three classic ghost movies rarely seen on the big screen. On Friday, the festival kicks off with The Uninvited, a 1944 chiller with Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey as a brother and sister who move into an opulent British mansion - only to learn there are some unexpected and unwelcome spirits on the premises. On Saturday, a lighter view of the spiritual world is on display in the delightful comedy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. The hightlight of the festival is the presentation of a new Fox archival print of Jack Clayton's superb 1963 film The Innocents, which ranks

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Blu-Ray Review: ‘Quo Vadis’ is a Classic Made For the Era of HD

23 March 2009 2:15 PM, PDT | From HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news

Blu-Ray Rating: 4.0/5.0 Chicago – It might be a generational thing, but I’ll never understand why people watch movies on smaller and smaller screens like their laptop, cell phone, or iPod. Maybe it’s because I grew up thinking of classic movies as epic adventures that should be larger than life. Movies were arguably never “bigger” than they were in the era of “Quo Vadis,” now available on Blu-Ray.

Based on the novel by Henryk Sienkiwicz, “Quo Vadis” has already been made three times before as a silent film (and would be made two times after as a mini-series), but the massive MGM version from 1951 is the classic take on the legendary story of Nero and Rome.

Quo Vadis was released on Blu-Ray on March 17th, 2009.

Photo credit: Warner Brothers

The film was nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture, two for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and Best Cinematography.

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Live blogging the Oscars

22 February 2009 12:07 PM, PST | From Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news

Make this blog item your home page for the rest of Oscar day. Tom O'Neil and Paul Sheehan are blogging live continuously all day. Keep hitting "refresh" for constant updates about what's happening at the Kodak Theatre.

9:06 p.m. — As with all of the past seven Oscars held at the Kodak Theater, the Governors Ball takes place in the adjoining Grand Ballroom which is 25,090 square feet. The menu for the Governors Ball was created by Wolfgang Puck for the fifteenth consecutive year. He promises the return of old favorites like tuna tartare in sesame miso cones and Maine lobster as well as, of course, caviar. And pastry chef Sherry Yard will once more be creating her gold-dusted chocolate Oscars as consolation prizes for those who didn’t get one of the real ones. Music will be spun by Kcrw radio host Jason Bentley who will alternate with The Impulse

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They Never Won an Academy Award

19 February 2009 5:55 PM, PST | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

There's a better than average chance that Kate Winslet will pick up an Academy Award Sunday night for The Reader. It's neither my favorite performance in that category, nor is it her best work, but at 33, she's already something of an Oscar spinster, having been nominated six times with no trophies to show for it.

Among actresses, Winslet is tied for the most nominations without a win. Deborah Kerr and Thelma Ritter have six, too, and curiously, all of them were sandwiched in a short amount of time, like Winslet. Kerr amassed six nods between 1949 and 1960, while Ritter did her damage between 1950 and 1962. Kate has lost for Sense and Sensibility, Titanic, Iris, Eternal Sunshine, and Little Children.

The record for no wins, at least among actors, is the legendary Peter O'Toole, who it goes without saying is among the greatest of all time. Eight nominations with no gold. And they

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Will the Babe Factor help Kate Winslet in a close Oscars contest with Meryl Streep?

18 February 2009 8:44 AM, PST | From Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news

"It wasn't calculated! I swear! You must believe me!" Kate Winslet gasped to Gold Derby late last year as we discussed her recent photo shoot with Vanity Fair. That bawdy gig had been a perfect way for her to begin seducing Oscars' voters as she unveiled "Revolutionary Road" and "The Reader."

As every Oscarologist knows, voters have judged the lead and supporting actress races in recent years as if they were beauty pageants. Consider, for example, some of the gals who won best actress this past decade: Julia Roberts, Halle Berry, Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron, Reese Witherspoon. Last year, when most Oscar pundits bet on 66-year-old Julie Christie ("Away From Her") to win, the younger, prettier contender pulled off an upset: Marion Cotillard ("La Vie en Rose").

Only two women over the age of 50 have nabbed an Oscar over the past 15 years: Judi Dench ("Shakespeare in Love," 1998) and Helen Mirren ("The Queen,

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Celebrate Valentine's Day with some classic movie romances

13 February 2009 4:11 AM, PST | From Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news

Tomorrow’s the big day lovebirds – Valentine’s Day 2009. Got anything planned? No, don’t tell us we want it to be a lovely romantic surprise. But for those of you perhaps opting for a low-key night, what are your TV choices? Looking to the terrestrial TV schedules there’s not much love. Over on digital Sky 3 is showing 50 Greatest Kisses and E4 100 Greatest Sex Symbols both from 9pm, and there are some romantic movies such as Funny Face, Lover Come Back and As Good As It Gets on the Sky Movies stations. However, if you’re looking to create a particular mood come tomorrow night we’ve got some cinematic suggestions from Boxwish with love…

If you want a happy ending… Whether you’re loved-up or not a Hollywood happy ending is always certain to warm the cockles of your heart. There’s Hugh Grant charming Andie McDowell with

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Playwright Anderson Dies

10 February 2009 4:00 AM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Broadway playwright Robert Anderson has died, aged 91.The author, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease in recent years, died of pneumonia at his Manhattan, New York home on Monday.

Anderson wrote several Hollywood screenplays, TV scripts and novels but was best known for his Broadway hit Tea and Sympathy as well as You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running.

Tea And Sympathy debuted on Broadway in 1953, with Deborah Kerr and John Kerr taking the starring roles. The actors reprised their parts for a 1956 film adaptation, which was directed by Vincente Minnelli.

Anderson wrote the screenplays for the 1957 movie Until They Sail, 1966's The Sand Pebbles, and The Nun's Story, for which he received an Oscar nomination in 1959.

A memorial service for Anderson is due to take place on Friday.

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Oscars' Unlucky Lady Winslet Has Her 'Losing Face' Prepared

3 February 2009 11:15 PM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Oscar nominee Kate Winslet is prepared to miss out on another Academy Award at this month's ceremony - she's missed out so many times in the past she has her "losing face" perfected. The actress last month picked up her sixth Oscar nomination, in the Best Actress category, for her role in The Reader.

If she fails to win, she'll become one of the biggest losers in Academy Award history, joining the likes of Deborah Kerr and Thelma Ritter, who also missed out six times - and second only to Peter O'Toole, who managed eight unsuccessful nominations.

Winslet is a hot favourite to win this year - having picked up prizes at the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards - but she's not so confident.

The star says, "I have this history of losing. I lose all the time so I've perfected this losing face. It's sort of calm.

"I've always known in the past that I was indeed going to lose, which is maybe an English thing."

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James Brown to Provide Own Singing Voice For Biopic, Wesley Snipes to Provide Talking Voice, Body and Face

26 January 2009 1:20 PM, PST | From /Film | See recent /Film news

Spike Lee has told MTV that he wants to use recordings of James Brown for the musical moments in his upcoming biopic of the late, great Godfather of Soul. Wesley Snipes, of whom Lee says “He’s my man”, will be left to just lip-sync and mimic the dance moves.

Fair enough. And that’s all the news there really is to this, the rest is just “context and opinion”, the stuff of the blogger. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

There’s a long, long history of people syncing to other people’s voices in film - most similarly to this, I suppose, in Ray where Jamie Foxx does sing a couple of the numbers himself, but just mouths along to original recordings for the most of them. Most often it has happened in musicals, with Marni Nixon alone dubbing Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, Deborah Kerr

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Casablanca named top movie kiss

14 January 2009 3:16 AM, PST | From Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news

What makes a classic onscreen smooch? That was the riddle presented to female patients at Manchester’s private dental practice, Kissdental who were asked to name their favourite silver screen snog in a new survey. The 500 participants clearly had some serious and weighty issues to consider. Is it attractive co-stars with electric chemistry? A physical release to lots of pent-up emotion or just lusty slobbering? Whatever their definition of cool kissing, they opted for the one between Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in 1942’s timeless romance Casablanca. Apparently that kiss is one that Sam can definitely play again.

Coming in second was the embrace between two-time Golden Globe winner Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in their first onscreen pairing in the tragic Titanic. On an equally epic scale but more old-school like the winner is the third placed puckering up between Omar Sharif and Julie Christie in 1965’s David Lean masterpiece Doctor Zhivago.

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2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2002 | 1999

10 articles from 2009

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