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11 hours ago · JON LANDAU: 1960 - 2024. Jon Landau, who has died of cancer aged 63, was the film producer who worked with James Cameron on three of the most logistically complex and financially successful films ...
1 day ago · In 1972, the pair founded the American Film Theatre, which beamed filmed plays into cinemas; their feature credits included John Schlesinger’s TV version of Separate Tables (1983) and the ...
5 days ago · The introduction of the ratings system led immediately to the production of serious, nonexploitative adult films, such as John Schlesinger ’s Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Mike Nichols ’s Carnal Knowledge (1971), in which sexuality was treated with a maturity and realism unprecedented on the American screen. The Godfather.
3 days ago · In John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy, which won an Academy Award for best picture of 1969, Hoffman played “Ratso” Rizzo, a tubercular homeless man who develops a friendship with an unsuccessful male prostitute (played by Jon Voight).
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6 days ago · The Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures is one of the annual Directors Guild of America Awards presented by the Directors Guild of America. With 3 wins out of 13 nominations, Steven Spielberg is both the most awarded and most nominated director of this category in the history of DGA, and ...
5 days ago · Some of the most famous were Richardson’s A Taste of Honey (1961) and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), John Schlesinger’s A Kind of Loving (1962) and Billy Liar (1963), Anderson’s This Sporting Life (1963), and Reisz’s Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966).
2 days ago · The most significant works on the economic causes of the Great Depression include John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash, 1929 (New York: Time Inc., 1962); Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz, The Great Contraction, 1929–1933 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964); John Garraty, The Great Depression: An Inquiry into the Causes, Course, and Consequences of the Worldwide Depression of the Nineteen-Thirties, as Seen by Contemporaries and in the Light of History (San Diego: Harcourt ...
