The awards machine is in full effect and that means a slew of new lifetime achievement awards are on the horizon. The latest honoree? None other than Dame Judi Dench who will be awarded the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Kirk Douglas Award in Excellence on Nov. 30th.
The 100-year-old Douglas, who attended the annual ceremony up until just a few years ago, said in a statement, “I am especially delighted to learn that Dame Judi Dench will accept the award that bears my name.
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The 100-year-old Douglas, who attended the annual ceremony up until just a few years ago, said in a statement, “I am especially delighted to learn that Dame Judi Dench will accept the award that bears my name.
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- 9/20/2017
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
The family that cuddles together, stays together — just ask Catherine Zeta-Jones.
The 47-year-old actress shared a black and white photo of her loved ones on Sunday, showing herself, husband Michael Douglahttps://www.instagram.com/p/BNMzyv-AQv9/?taken-by=catherinezetajones&hl=ens, and their children, Carys and Dylan, tangled up in one another on the couch.
“Totally laid back,” Zeta-Jones captioned the sweet photo of the family all cuddled up for Christmas.
The group photo followed a pair of posts in which Zeta-Jones showed off her Christmas decorations, including the family’s massive, ornament-laden tree. “Merry Christmas everyone!” she wrote alongside the picture.
The 47-year-old actress shared a black and white photo of her loved ones on Sunday, showing herself, husband Michael Douglahttps://www.instagram.com/p/BNMzyv-AQv9/?taken-by=catherinezetajones&hl=ens, and their children, Carys and Dylan, tangled up in one another on the couch.
“Totally laid back,” Zeta-Jones captioned the sweet photo of the family all cuddled up for Christmas.
The group photo followed a pair of posts in which Zeta-Jones showed off her Christmas decorations, including the family’s massive, ornament-laden tree. “Merry Christmas everyone!” she wrote alongside the picture.
- 12/26/2016
- by Char Adams
- PEOPLE.com
What makes a great actor great? When I watch a performance, there are certain things I look for, and the biggest of those things is whether or not the actor is making choices about their work. There are plenty of actors who get through a scene just fine and who deliver their lines nicely and who never ever connect beyond that for me because it doesn’t feel like they’re bringing anything to the process aside from their physical presence. There are certain actors, though, who I am immediately drawn to because you can see how they’re taking the raw material of the script and they’re putting it through their personal filter so that the end result is something the writer couldn’t have imagined, that the director couldn’t have asked for, and that the actor never would have reached on his own. Gene Wilder was one of those actors,...
- 8/29/2016
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
Who needs epics about Ancient Rome, Egypt, or Greek mythology when we have a thousand years of exotic Central and South American civilizations to exploit? Well, it's only been done a handful of times. This cinematic concatenation of nifty architecture, fruity multicolored headgear and athletic oiled warriors is, well, nifty, fruity and athletic! Kings of the Sun Kl Studio Classics Savant Blu-ray Review 1963 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 108 min. / Street Date May 26, 2015 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Yul Brynner, George Chakiris, Shirley Anne Field, Richard Basehart, Brad Dexter, Barry Morse, Armando Silvestre, Leo Gordon, Victoria Vettri, Rudy Solari, Ford Rainey, Chuck Hayward, James Coburn (narrator). Cinematography Joseph MacDonald Film Editor William Reynolds Original Music Elmer Bernstein Written by James R. Webb, Elliot Arnold Produced by Lewis J. Rachmil Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Epics don't get wilder than this. According to producer Walter Mirisch, 1963's Kings of the Sun...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Epics don't get wilder than this. According to producer Walter Mirisch, 1963's Kings of the Sun...
- 9/8/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
An Italian To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, USA, 1944). Art by Luigi Martinati.
Lauren Bacall, who left us last week after an astonishing 70 years of making movies, was one of the most beautiful women ever to grace a movie screen and the first golden age Hollywood star I ever fell for. With her unmistakeable features—those eyebrows, those lips—she must have been one of the easiest stars to capture in an illustration and thus a gift to poster artists. For most of her career, however, while she was never less than a star, she was rarely a leading lady, playing co-star to her great love Humphrey Bogart in four of her first five movies, then to Charles Boyer, Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable, Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Gregory Peck and so on. As a result, she rarely appeared solo in posters and is often dwarfed by her male co-stars.
Lauren Bacall, who left us last week after an astonishing 70 years of making movies, was one of the most beautiful women ever to grace a movie screen and the first golden age Hollywood star I ever fell for. With her unmistakeable features—those eyebrows, those lips—she must have been one of the easiest stars to capture in an illustration and thus a gift to poster artists. For most of her career, however, while she was never less than a star, she was rarely a leading lady, playing co-star to her great love Humphrey Bogart in four of her first five movies, then to Charles Boyer, Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable, Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Gregory Peck and so on. As a result, she rarely appeared solo in posters and is often dwarfed by her male co-stars.
- 8/22/2014
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
London, August 12: A new biography on Oscar-winning actor Sir Laurence Olivier has revealed that he hated Marilyn Monroe and didn't bother being taught acting by Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.
According to the extracts seen by The Sunday Times, Oliver thought of Joan Fontaine, his co-star in Rebecca, as 'loathsome' and Merle Oberon as a 'silly little amateur', the Independent reported.
Historian Philip Ziegler listened to taped interviews with Olivier before penning the book which has him talking condescendingly about some of old Hollywood's brightest stars.
The biography reveals the 'Hamlet' actor's deep.
According to the extracts seen by The Sunday Times, Oliver thought of Joan Fontaine, his co-star in Rebecca, as 'loathsome' and Merle Oberon as a 'silly little amateur', the Independent reported.
Historian Philip Ziegler listened to taped interviews with Olivier before penning the book which has him talking condescendingly about some of old Hollywood's brightest stars.
The biography reveals the 'Hamlet' actor's deep.
- 8/12/2013
- by Anita Agarwal
- RealBollywood.com
Oscar winners Olivia de Havilland and Luise Rainer among movie stars of the 1930s still alive With the passing of Deanna Durbin this past April, only a handful of movie stars of the 1930s remain on Planet Earth. Below is a (I believe) full list of surviving Hollywood "movie stars of the 1930s," in addition to a handful of secondary players, chiefly those who achieved stardom in the ensuing decade. Note: There’s only one male performer on the list — and curiously, four of the five child actresses listed below were born in April. (Please scroll down to check out the list of Oscar winners at the 75th Academy Awards, held on March 23, 2003, as seen in the picture above. Click on the photo to enlarge it. © A.M.P.A.S.) Two-time Oscar winner and London resident Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth, The Great Waltz), 103 last January...
- 5/7/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
2016 movie still trailing Michael Moore, Al Gore 2016 Obama's America, Dinesh D'Souza and John Sullivan's anti-Obama documentary, has surpassed the concert movie Katy Perry: Part of Me to become the second highest-grossing non-fiction film released in North America in 2012. By Sunday evening, D'Souza and Sullivan's right-wing doc -- current cume according to the web site Box Office Mojo stands at an estimated $27.66 million (as of Wed., September 13) -- should have also surpassed the nature doc Chimpanzee ($28.97 million) to become the year's top documentary in the United States and Canada. Worldwide, 2016 -- a 100% domestic sleeper hit like, say, the Tyler Perry movies (which have no audience overseas) -- remains behind both Chimpanzee (another domestic-only release) and Katy Perry: Part of Me. (Please scroll down for more details about the box-office performances of non-fiction films worldwide both in 2012 and "all-time.") As per numerous box-office reports, as the sixth biggest non-fiction film ever (or rather,...
- 9/13/2012
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Actress/singer Mitzi Gaynor is to be honoured with the 2011 Mary Pickford Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Entertainment Industry at the 16th annual Satellite Awards in Beverly Hills next month.
The There's No Business Like Show Business and Anything Goes star, who made her acting debut aged 17 in My Blue Heaven opposite Betty Grable, turned 80 in September.
She says, "I am so very grateful to be able to work within an industry that I truly adore. To be recognised for that work, and to have it considered an outstanding contribution, well, I'm just over the moon with happiness, and especially with thanks."
Throughout her long career, the South Pacific star has appeared onscreen alongside the likes of movie legends Marilyn Monroe, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Yul Brynner and Kirk Douglas.
She also made a name for herself as a Las Vegas regular in the 1960s after wowing fans with her spectacular nightclub revue at the Flamingo Hotel.
The There's No Business Like Show Business and Anything Goes star, who made her acting debut aged 17 in My Blue Heaven opposite Betty Grable, turned 80 in September.
She says, "I am so very grateful to be able to work within an industry that I truly adore. To be recognised for that work, and to have it considered an outstanding contribution, well, I'm just over the moon with happiness, and especially with thanks."
Throughout her long career, the South Pacific star has appeared onscreen alongside the likes of movie legends Marilyn Monroe, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Yul Brynner and Kirk Douglas.
She also made a name for herself as a Las Vegas regular in the 1960s after wowing fans with her spectacular nightclub revue at the Flamingo Hotel.
- 11/15/2011
- WENN
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