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Gordon Willis, Ron Howard, Dana Delany: Governors Awards 2009
Alternative Film Guide Nov 15 09
Honorary Award recipient Gordon Willis, the cinematographer of classics such as Klute, The Godfather films, Serpico, All the President’s Men, Annie Hall, Comes a Horseman, Manhattan, Broadway Danny Rose, and The Purple Rose of Cairo, arrives at the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Saturday, November 14.
Lauren Bacall, Maria Bello, Alec Baldwin: Governors Awards 2009
Alternative Film Guide Nov 15 09
Honorary Award recipient Lauren Bacall, who appeared in, among others, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Young Man with a Horn, How to Marry a Millionaire, Woman’s World, Sex and the Single Girl, Murder on the Orient Express, The Fan, and The Mirror Has Two Faces, arrives at the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Saturday, November 14.
Warren Beatty, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg: Governors Awards 2009
Alternative Film Guide Nov 15 09
Past Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients Dino de Laurentiis, Warren Beatty, Saul Zaentz, George Lucas, Norman Jewison, Walter Mirisch, Steven Spielberg presenting this year’s Thalberg Award to John Calley, who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Saturday, November 14.
HOLLOW REED – Martin Donovan, Joely Richardson
Alternative Film Guide Nov 15 09
Hollow Reed (1996)
Direction: Angela Pope
Screenplay: Paula Milne
Cast: Martin Donovan, Joely Richardson, Sam Bould, Ian Hart, Jason Flemyng, Annette Badland, Roger Lloyd-Pack
Hollow Reed, the tale of a little boy loved by his gay father and abused by his hetero stepfather, was the winner of the Audience Award at the 1996 Dinard British Film Festival.
Blue Dragon Awards 2009
Alternative Film Guide Nov 14 09
2009 Blue Dragon Awards
2009 Blue Dragon Awards – Nominations: Nov. 14, 2009
2009 Blue Dragon Awards – Winners: KBS Hall in Seoul on Dec.
TO EACH HIS OWN – Olivia de Havilland, John Lund
Alternative Film Guide Nov 13 09
To Each His Own (1946)
Direction: Mitchell Leisen
Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Jacques Théry; from a story by Brackett
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, John Lund, Mary Anderson, Roland Culver, Phillip Terry, Bill Goodwin
Olivia de Havilland, John Lund in To Each His Own
Olivia de Havilland, who had starred in the 1941 melodrama Hold Back the Dawn, returns to the wartime milieu in To Each His Own (1946), once again under the direction of Mitchell Leisen, who guides the proceedings with his characteristic sincerity while cleverly skirting the Production Code’s restrictive guidelines.
HOLD BACK THE DAWN – Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard
Alternative Film Guide Nov 13 09
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Direction: Mitchell Leisen
Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder; from Ketti Fring’s story
Cast: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois, Rosemary DeCamp
Olivia de Havilland, Charles Boyer, Paulette Goddard in Hold Back the Dawn
Olivia de Havilland shines in Mitchell Leisen’s melodrama Hold Back the Dawn, a sort of opening bracket for the director’s World War II-era films.
CineKink San Francisco 2009
Alternative Film Guide Nov 13 09
CineKink San Francisco will take place from November 19-21 at the
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
LYSISTRATATA-Themed Screenings at the Getty Villa
Alternative Film Guide Nov 13 09
Harriet Andersson, Bibi Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom in The Girls
Michael Patrick Kelly’s documentary Operation Lysistrata, Melvin James‘ A Miami Tail, and Mai Zetterling’s The Girls will be screened at the Getty Villa’s Auditorium on Saturday and Sunday, Nov.
Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour – Program 2
Alternative Film Guide Nov 12 09
Skhizein by Jeremy Clapin (top); Utopia, Part 3: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall by Sam Green, Carrie Lozano (middle); Nora by Alla Kovgan, David Hinton (bottom)
The Los Angeles Filmforum will present Program 2 of the Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour at 7:30 p.
Oscar 2010: David Rockwell to Design Oscar Show
Alternative Film Guide Nov 12 09 David Rockwell will serve as production designer for the 2010 Academy Awards, Oscar telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic have announced.
Golden Globes 2010: Martin Scorsese to Receive Cecil B. DeMille Award
Alternative Film Guide Nov 12 09Martin Scorsese will be the next recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Scorsese will be handed out his Cecil B.
THE GODDESS – Kim Stanley – d: John Cromwell
Alternative Film Guide Nov 12 09
The Goddess (1958)
Direction: John Cromwell
Screenplay: Paddy Chayefsky
Cast: Kim Stanley, Lloyd Bridges, Steven Hill, Betty Lou Holland, Joan Copeland, Gerald, Hiken, Patty Duke
Kim Stanley in The Goddess
Paddy Chayefsky evokes a cynical Tennessee Williams in his screenplay for The Goddess, a Hollywood cautionary tale directed by veteran John Cromwell.
JCVD – Jean-Claude Van Damme
Alternative Film Guide Nov 11 09
JCVD (2008)
Direction: Mabrouk El Mechri
Screenplay: Mabrouk El Mechri and Frédéric Benudis; from an idea by Frédéric Taddeï and Vincent Ravalec
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, François Damiens, Liliane Becker
Jean-Claude Van Damme in JCVD
Mabrouk El Mechri’s JCVD is one of the best films Jean-Claude Van Damme has starred in for some years, equal to his more recent efforts in Wake of Death and Replicant.
Berlin 2010: Play it Again …! Series
Alternative Film Guide Nov 11 09
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless
As per The Hollywood Reporter, the Berlin International Film Festival will mark its 60th anniversary with the retrospective "Play it Again …!," featuring 40 films compiled by British film critic David Thomson from previous Berlin festivals.
Charles Chaplin’s ZEPPED Found
Alternative Film Guide Nov 11 09In the Chicago Tribune, Michael Phillips reports that a long-thought lost Charles Chaplin film has been accidentally found after a film collector made an eBay bid on a nitrate film canister.
Jack Lemmon, Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier on TCM
Alternative Film Guide Nov 11 09
Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award winners Stan Laurel, Jack Lemmon, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Kirk Douglas will be celebrated by Turner Classic Movies with a four-film presentation beginning at 8 p.
Oscar 2010: Animated Feature Semi-Finalists
Alternative Film Guide Nov 11 09
Up by Pete Docter (top); A Town Called Panic by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar (middle); Fantastic Mr.
Grace Kelly on TCM: REAR WINDOW, THE COUNTRY GIRL
Alternative Film Guide Nov 11 09
James Stewart, Grace Kelly in Rear Window
Turner Classic Movies‘ Grace Kelly series continues this Thursday, Nov.
D.W. Griffith in California
Alternative Film Guide Nov 10 09Los Angeles Filmforum will present "D.W. Griffith in California," on Sunday, Nov. 15, at 7:30 pm.
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