Film

“It has been more than sixty years since I came to Hollywood, first to learn how to make films and then to make them myself. I have now made thirty-five of them, some better than others, some prizewinners, other money losers.

In 2017, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association asked Christopher Nolan to choose a film that the HFPA helped restore for a screening to celebrate our 75th anniversary.   His choice was The Red Shoes.

In 1916, the Ushigomekan cinema, in Tokyo’s Kagurazaka district, used to play only foreign films. This is where six-year-old Akira Kurosawa remembers seeing “a lot of American action serials, like The Iron Claw, Hurricane Hutch, The Tiger’s Footprints, many others starring William S.

* An occasional series on films restored with the support of the HFPA. Stanley Kubrick’s classic, Paths of Glory, which was declared 'culturally, historically and aesthetically significant' by the Library of Congress in 1992, was restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

Elle Woods had one ambition: to become Mrs. Warner Huntington III.

In “My Life And My Films” published in 1974, five years before his death in Beverly Hills at 84, Jean Renoir takes the reader through his rich existence, starting from his early childhood. As the son of the illustrious painter, he knew he had to make a name for himself in whatever field he chose.

Nobody’s perfect but Billy Wilder, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon achieve near perfection with Some Like It Hot, a masterpiece of effervescent comedy than can be seen and seen again with no moderation. The best prescription in our confined times.

“June 15, 1964: I just got a request from America to publish my diaries. But I never wrote them with any literary ambition, and since I do not consider myself a writer, I had no wish to publish them.

For almost 40 years, the legacy of iconic movie star Natalie Wood has been overshadowed by her tragic drowning in 1981 at age 43, off the coast of Catalina Island, California  Now, her daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner wants to bring the focus back to her mother’s remarkable life with the documentary, Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind. “We didn't want it to be a fluff piece or a love letter to her,” says the 49-year-old actress and co-producer of the HBO documentary that premieres on HBO now.

Lockdown getting you down? Shake the quarantine blues away with a timeless classic. This week, sing, dance, and be happy again with the most joyful and entertaining musical of all times: Singin' in the Rain, Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly’s 1952 masterpiece.