The Cary Grant centenary (1904-1986) is currently being celebrated in many venues. David Schwartz, the chief curator of film at the American Museum of the Moving Image, has provided an ultra-auteurist perspective with his “Cary Grant x 5″ series, focusing on Grant’s stellar appearances in films directed by Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, George Cukor, Leo Read More
In 1975 in a Stockholm
commune, an announcement comes over the radio: “Franco is dead!” On hearing the
news, Göran, the warmheartedly avuncular commune leader and landlord, happily
spreads it among his band of followers, prompting much singing and dancing and
rejoicing-as if a political convulsion on the Iberian peninsula had anything
much to do Read More
Wednesday, Feb. 24
After weeks of speculation, NBC News will finally air Lisa Myers’ report about Juanita Broaddrick, the famous Jane Doe No. 5, on tonight’s edition of Dateline NBC . Ms. Broaddrick’s story, which has been reported in The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post –and repeated ad infinitum by Fox News Channel, Read More
Peter Bogdanovich’s Movie of the Week
Multiple-Academy Award-winning director Leo McCarey, the man who teamed Stan Laurel with Oliver Hardy and supervised all their best silent work, also made perhaps the quintessential screen love story because he knew how to keep the humor in it; actually, he made the same story twice, with two different Read More
Peter Bogdanovich’s Movie of the Week
One of the hardest-to-see, most personal, least commercial and least known of quality pictures to come from the American studio system is Leo McCarey’s profoundly touching 1937 drama (with comedy) about a loving old married couple and their thoughtless grown-up children, Make Way for Tomorrow [ Wednesday, Feb. 4, Read More
