Bugs Bunny, who turned 70 last month, remains an iconic property at Warner Bros., which recently announced the wacky hare would be featured in both a new TV series and a projected feature film. Bugs, of course, got his start in animated shorts the...
The big revelation for me in this month's pair of long-awaited noir sets from Warner and Sony is director Phil Karlson, who I've long known primarily for his TV work (his famous two-part espisodes of "The Untouchables'' were released theatrically as...
By far the best-known version of "Three Godfathers,'' filmed five times for theaters and once for TV, is the very sentimental one John Ford did in 1949 starring John Wayne, Harry Carey Jr. and Pedro Armendariz, with gorgeous Technicolor cimematography...
By Steve Dollar Unlike most major outdoor rock festivals, there are no corporate backers behind ATP New York, the American version of the British-spawned All Tomorrow's Parties festival. Nonetheless, the three-day indie rockathon, which begins Friday in...
Russell Crowe in a scene from The Insider Source: Supplied Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford in a scene from All the Presidents Men Source: Supplied Ahead of a festival of journalism on film, Lynden Barber looks back on a life of watching...
By David Mermelstein George Bernard Shaw loved movies—or, more accurately, silent ones. But he didn't much care for early sound films, especially cinematic adaptations of his plays. That is until the appearance on his doorstep in 1935 of Gabriel Pascal,...
KUPANG, Indonesia (AP) — Four adventurers encountered freak waves and severe hunger during a 48-day re-enactment of the epic sea voyage made by Captain William Bligh after a mutiny on the HMS Bounty two centuries ago. Australian Don McIntyre, who led...
Like Ann Lynch (Letters, 26 August), I saw Paul Robeson as Othello at Stratford in 1959 with my school. But being lucky enough to live nearby, I queued to see it again standing at the back of the stalls for half a crown. That helps me to remember it was...
Family fetters come undone in week’s top DVD This week, we start in the Bronx: Andy Garcia plays the head of a fractious Bronx family in the sweet, funny film...
At a time when most of the new movies seem more intent on swallowing you than entertaining you, the quaint comforts of “Nanny McPhee Returns” seem downright restorative. Emma Thompson, who also wrote the film, as she did 2005’s “Nanny McPhee,” once...
A 1939 photo of Charles Laughton in the role of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." A chance discovery in a Cornwall house appears to have revealed the real Hunchback of Notre Dame. The tragic hero of Victor Hugo’s novel would seem to have been inspired by...
SHE was once described as the woman Technicolor was invented for. With her lustrous red hair and beautiful green eyes, the camera loved Maureen O'Hara. So did the moviegoing public, who flocked to see the Irishwoman who captured their hearts in some of...
