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The late 50's saw the transition for Hollywood films. However, movies of the past ten years have been heavily reliant on new technology and unrealistic explorations.

Premiere magazine previews 18 new Hollywood releases that are recommended for viewing. Those previewed include 'Blues Brothers 2000,' 'Afterglow,' 'Fallen,' 'Four Days in September,' 'The Gingerbread Man,' 'The Borrowers,' 'Incognito' and 'Spice World.'

Several foreign directors, actors and actresses discuss their favorite American films.

Restaurants have played an important role in the Hollywood movies. Los Angeles' 'The Regent Beverly-Wilshire', San Diego's 'Del Coronado', and Oregon's 'Timberline Lodge' are some of the popular restaurants shown in hit movies like 'Pretty Woman', 'Some Like it Hot', and 'The Shinning'.

What was summer movie in Hollywood sometime back is becoming a year round movie. It is observed that the new tent-pole movies are manufactured/machine-tooled rather than filmed.

Byline: ALLAN KOZINN Lina Lapelyte's âHave a Good Day!â will make its American premiere at the festival in January. To view this article at nytimes.com, click here: [...]

In the big battle for box office dominance overseas, U.S. pics have easily KO'd all other comers - but local heroes are suddenly putting up a pretty impressive fight in [...]

The Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) system censors movies via the Classification and Rating Administration, whose rating procedure is closed to the public. The vast majority of films are edited to fit them in the R category after the MPAA gives them an X rating. This indicates that movies are made to fit the rating system. School boards and libraries depend upon MPAA rating to form official policy for access by minors to videos and films, even thought the ratings cannot be upheld in a court of law.

Whether it was cracking the beginning of Love & Mercy or nailing the ending of Concussion, last-minute improvisation played a part. In their own words, eight directors reveal the intuitive [...]

AMERICA'S SACRED COWS JUST DON'T GET THE RESPECT THEY USED TO. Warner Bros' 1959 'The FBI Story' concludes with 'sincere thanks' to J. Edgar Hoover 'for making this world of [...]

Byline: Teress Iezzi The release of a Michel Gondry film is always cause for giddy anticipation in certain circles. For Gondry's coming film, 'Be Kind Rewind,'' those circles likely will [...]

Billy's Blues 'The Authentic Death and Contentious After-life of 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.' the Untold Story of Peck-inpah's Last Western-by Paul Seydor. North-western University Press. 2015 PART THREE, [...]

The importance of 1970s pop and culture to hip hop music is investigated. This article details how blaxploitation distilled certain societal concerns of the 1970s and how in turn hip-hop feeds of blaxploitation both dramatically and musically.

After decades of struggle, visual effects seem to have achieved a measure of respect. There are five vfx nominees at the Oscars. The VES Awards are taken pretty seriously. The [...]

Based on a poll of 1,500 film experts, the American Film Institute recently issued this list titled, 'AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions' RANK & Movie Year 1) Casablanca 1942 2) [...]

The Captain America: Civil War star will headline an adaptation of a 1962 story by Shirley [...]

PICTURE LINCOLN This uncommonly rich work is a time machine set to January 1865. In the way that director Steven Spielberg--with a rigor and restraint he's never exhibited before--trusts his [...]

In an era when the studios eschew original material, there's plenty of competition for adapted screenplay awards. Literary adaptations dominate, but even non-fiction books and articles can be fodder for [...]

In a career spanning seven decades, Christopher Lee had more than 280 credits in film and TV. * The Curse of Frankenstein (1) 1957 * Dracula 1958 * The Two [...]

This week, thoughts on three holiday shows--and one in-your-face alternative. 'This Wonderful Life' features actor Jerry Richardson as, well, everyone in Bedford Falls. This minimalist holiday offering, clocking in at [...]

This week, attending 'A Wedding' in Bloomington and spirited singing in the Artsgarden. In 1978, director Robert Altman made an interesting, unwieldy movie called 'A Wedding.' When a film features [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE DA VINCI CODE KICKED UP AN INTERNATIONAL ruckus by claiming Leonardo had placed a woman next to Jesus in his painting of the Last Supper--a woman the […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At least on the surface of things, it would seem that Wes Anderson should be celebrated as a true homegrown hero. He was born and raised in Houston, […]

A description on some of the best restaurants in Chicago that have played important supporting roles in several memorable Hollywood movies is presented. Some of them are Manny's Coffee, Shop & Deli, Pump Room, and Twin Anchors.

LARRY DAVID MADE HIS BROADWAY DEBUT March 5 in his play Fish in the Dark, which set a record for advance ticket sales with $ld million and received mostly positive [...]

Few of John Hughes' teen comedies have stood up as well as this 1986 effort. The plot revolves around Bueller (Matthew Broderick) kidding his parents that he's ill in order [...]

Tippi Hedren March 5, 1962, Just for Variety column 'I walked away from a very, very bad situation with my head held high.' It's a story that's become Hollywood legend: [...]

The bizarre title of this 1950 motor-racing classic is misleading, but there's no doubting its authentic style, which vividly captures the American oval scene in the late '40s. The film [...]

The instant popularity of stock-car racing in the UK inspired director Basil Dearden to feature it as the climax to the 1955 Ealing comedy Who Done It?--better known as Benny [...]

Weekend Numbers DOMESTIC INT'L Gross Cume Gross Cume TOTAL 1. The Wolverine fox 53.1 53.1 (1) 87.2 * 101 87.2 140.3 The Hugh Jackman pic scored the lowest opening for [...]

The Deauville American Film Festival will change channels this year with an initiative focusing on U.S. TV series titled 'Deauville: Season 1,' organizers said Monday. The festival, set to run [...]

Vacancy--Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale take a wrong turn on a road trip and wind up lodging at their own version of the Bates Motel, where manager Frank Whaley and [...]

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