Miriam Hopkins in BECKY SHARP (1935), Janet Gaynor in A STAR IS BORN (1937), and Vivien Leigh in GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) were the first 3 Best Actress nominees from full-color movies. The woes of ...
I didn't re-watch the film but some of these choices make me want to. Especially the ones from the Something Good scene. I forgot how wonderfully romantic that scene (and song) was and how beautifully ...
Oh, no, I was so pulling for my girl Joan. Her unraveling towards the end adds an emotional resonance that I think the film doesn't quite pull off in its too-neat ending for the real Marsha, even ...
I've always been a sucker for 2002 (even if Ed Harris is a bit much), and I think 2010 will age really well and looked back on fondly. I get why 1993 is viewed this way, but I'm not THAT excited about ...
The Party was fantastic (and less than 80 mins too!). Cairo Time dragged a bit but she was indeed quite excellent in it. For those seeking a new Patty film, looks like she just started filming ...
by Sean Donovan As a kind of epilogue to our Montgomery Clift Centennial series, in which we revisited every film of his, let's discuss a curio that made the festival rounds in 2018 and 2019. The ...
Next Week: It’s Angels in America time! And because this Tony Kushner/Mike Nichols miniseries may be seen as the crown jewel of HBO’s LGBT history, we want to hear from everyone: we’ve made it next ...
When someone points me to something i'd overlooked is very refreshing,i'd never noticed that Clarice's blouse is see through and that Senator Martin suit screams power,Chilterns dress to impress clash ...
The 98th Academy Awards are almost upon us, so, on this last day before the festivities, let’s put our pundit hats on and try to suss out whom AMPAS has picked. Nine Team Experience writers, including ...
Today's top ten list was inspired by the passing of the great Joan Fontaine, half of Hollywood's most embittered AND most successful sibling rivalry, all-female division. Usually when a movie star has ...
Sometimes, a writing project can take a life of its own, overwhelming you. That's what happened to me when trying to write about Old Hollywood director Mitchell Leisen. Initially, I pitched this piece ...
Beloved, to some extent, suffered from the reaction to Spielberg and The Color Purple. As Danny Glover himself once said in the early 90s, "The Color Purple is a good film, not a great one." Some of ...