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Next year, an entirely new kind of silent film festival is coming to Hollywood. The Laugh and Live Film Festival, presented by Los Angeles-based film historian Sparrow Morgan, will be the first festival of its kind: focusing on reviving, not just interest in silent film, but the very medium of silent film itself. The Pictorial […]
Read MoreA Star is Born, The Producers, Wild River, Top Hat, Sunset Blvd., Leave Her to Heaven, North by Northwest, The Graduate, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, The Good the Bad the Ugly, King of Comedy, Metropolis … Tony Curtis, Eli Wallach, Eve Marie Saint, Martin Landau, Mel Brooks, Nancy Olson, Buck Henry, Peter Bogdanovich, Leonard […]
Read MoreA gorgeous print of Elia Kazan’s 1960 drama Wild River, restored by The Film Foundation with the help of Fox and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, screened at tonight’s TCM Fest to an audience that, largely, had never seen the film before. Yours truly included. Curtis Hanson, director of LA Confidential and […]
Read MoreTo any and all interested in attending the upcoming TCM Classic Film Festival here in Hollywood, consider this your gentle reminder that the event kicks off in exactly 7 days. Passes are extortionately high priced, but you will be able obtain single tickets to individual screenings at the box office. $20 is still high for […]
Read MoreOn November 12, The Jules Verne Film Festival will present a special 40th Anniversary screening of Sam Peckinpah’s classic 1969 Western The Wild Bunch. The event, to be held at the beautiful Million Dollar Theatre in the historic Broadway district of Downtown Los Angeles, will feature a special homage to the surviving principle leads—including the […]
Read MoreThe Pictorial has heard it through the grapevine that Tony Curtis will be making an appearance at the Million Dollar Theater in Downtown LA on June 13 as part of the Jules Verne Festival. He will be in attendance to receive the festival’s Jules Verne Legendaire Award, and in celebration the festival will hold a […]
Read MoreBefore the Fall (Tres Dias)— A meteor is hurtling towards earth and life as we know it will end in 3 days. As society crumbles around him, Ale (Víctor Clavijo), who has spent his life as an all-around loser, surrenders to the imminent death of mankind with sour passivity. It’s a spent premise, yes, but […]
Read MoreGogol Bordello Non Stop— Directed by Margarita Jimeno, this international Documentary competition offering profiles Gogol Bordello, the New York based ‘Gypsy punk’ band whose frenetic brand of in-your-face extreme exhibitionism has been shock-and-aweing the East Coast underground scene for nearly a decade. Gypsy/punk fusion may sound like strange bedfellows, but after all, ‘It’s all music,’ […]
Read MoreThursday night marked the first of the 11-day 2008 AFI fest here in Hollywood. I’m a wishful would-be writer with a highly undeserved AFI press pass who watched last night’s red carpet gala from out of my foggy bus window (the disagreeable No. 217) while Nouvelle Vague’s ‘Making Plans For Nigel’ wistfully whispered through my […]
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