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6 hours ago · —John Huston, Playboy interview, 1985 Author Ian Freer describes him as "cinema's Ernest Hemingway"—a filmmaker who was "never afraid to tackle tough issues head on." Huston's films were insightful about human nature and human predicaments. They also sometimes included scenes or brief dialogue passages that were remarkably prescient concerning environmental issues that came to public awareness in the future, in the period starting about 1970; examples include The Misfits and The Night of ...
6 hours ago · This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 October 2024. 2007 film by Ethan and Joel Coen For the novel, see No Country for Old Men (novel). No Country for Old Men Theatrical release poster Directed by Joel Coen Ethan Coen Screenplay by Joel Coen Ethan Coen Based on No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Produced by Scott Rudin Ethan Coen Joel Coen Starring Tommy Lee Jones Javier Bardem Josh Brolin Cinematography Roger Deakins Edited by ...
6 hours ago · Javed Akhtar was born on 17 January 1945. Early influences on Akhtar included Urdu novels by Pakistani author Ibn-e-Safi, such as the Jasoosi Dunya and Imran series of detective novels, as well as films like the Dilip Kumar starrers Arzoo (1950) and Aan (1952), Bimal Roy's Do Bigha Zameen (1953), Shree 420 (1955) directed by Raj Kapoor and written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, and Mehboob Khan's Mother India (1957).
6 hours ago · It was a critical success and was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning Best Original Song for "Over the Rainbow" and Best Original Score for Stothart; an Academy Juvenile Award was presented to Judy Garland. While the film was sufficiently popular at the box office, it failed to make a profit for MGM until its 1949 re-release, earning only $3 million on a $2.7 million budget, making it MGM's most expensive production at the time.
1 day ago · It was more successful abroad, [277] and Chaplin's screenplay was nominated at the Academy Awards. [278] He was proud of the film, writing in his autobiography, "Monsieur Verdoux is the cleverest and most brilliant film I have yet made." [279] The negative reaction to Monsieur Verdoux was largely the result of changes in Chaplin's public image ...
1 day ago · 1927: In Chicago, Dora Heyman and Benjamin Bosley gave birth to DePaul Thomas Edward “Tom” Bosely the Tony Award winning actor for his performance as Fiorello La Guardia in the musical “Fiorello” and creator of the role of Howard Cunningham in the popular sitcom “Happy Days” who married Patrcia Carr after the death of his first wife Jean and who was a main character in the television series “Murder, She Wrote” and the “Father Dowling Mysteries” where he played a Catholic ...
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6 hours ago · —Michael Cimino Derived from some of Cimino's personal experiences, The Deer Hunter tells the story of three blue-collar steelworkers, portrayed by Robert De Niro, John Savage and Christopher Walken, who during the Vietnam War volunteer to serve together. Since he had to spend the next several months prepping for the film and scouting for locations, Cimino brought in Deric Washburn to help him write the film's script. According to Cimino, he would call Washburn every night and feed him ...
