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13 November 2009 7:00 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Today's Cinematic Birthdays 11/131312 Edward III (of Windsor), not the gay one who gets more cinematic treatment (including Derek Jarman's fascinating take), but his son. This is the one Shakespeare wrote a play about and the one who Mel Gibson implied to be the bastard son of Braveheart William Wallace, thereby giving the finger to history unless Wallace's sperm could survive years past his death. That Gibson's sperm could magically endure beyond the grave is far more likely. He already has eight children.1833 Edwin Thomas Booth, famous influential thespian and the 19th century's most prominent Hamlet. He's been portrayed onscreen and stage by famous thespians like Richard Burton and Frank Langella, usually in stories connected to his estranged brother's assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Will someone play him in the Spielberg helmed Lincoln film?

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1897 Gertrude Omstead, one of many silent film actresses who moved on once sound hit the movies. »

- NATHANIEL R

22 April 2009 9:12 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

Throughout Voyage of the Damned, I was reminded of Stanley Kubrick’s famous criticism of Schindler’s List: “The Holocaust is about six million people who get killed. Schindler's List was about six hundred people who don't.” In contrast to that film, Damned concludes its action in 1939, well before several of the major concentration camps opened their gates and the “final solution” went into effect. In short, this represents the exact same sort of narrow perspective on the Holocaust that List does, but at least acknowledges it in a way that List (or, more accurately, its supporters) perhaps does not. But as a result, the film lacks the grounding or insight that would elevate it beyond a mere historical account, because in its current form, it is severely lacking in the category of raison d’etre.

Voyage of the Damned was produced at the point when Hollywood was just initially »

- Anders Nelson

21 April 2009 6:00 PM, PDT | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »

Jeanne Moreau, Henri Serre, Oskar Werner in François Truffaut’s Jules et Jim In June, Turner Classic Movies‘ month-long series "Great Directors" will be celebrating the efforts of 52 films directors, from past and present, from Hollywood and overseas (though, as to be expected, mostly Hollywood). Among TCM’s "greats" are, inevitably, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Steven Spielberg, and John Ford, but also Jacques Tourneur, Mervyn LeRoy, and Budd Boetticher. Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Carol Reed, and Ingmar Bergman are four of the non-Hollywood filmmakers who have been included in the series. Each weekday of the "Great Directors" series will feature two directors — one during the day; the other at night.  The daytime lineup includes Victor Fleming (June 2), Fritz Lang (June 8), John Huston (June 11), Jacques Tourneur (June 12), Robert Wise (June 16), Blake Edwards (June 19), Otto Preminger (June 23), David Lean (June 26) and Sidney Lumet (June 29). Weeknight primetime directors include John [...] »

- Andre Soares

3 articles from 2009