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2 days ago · The group met with the executives Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider in Manhattan, where they explained their idea for a comedy sitcom about a band seeking to make it big, styled similarly to the Beatles' 1964 film, A Hard Day's Night.
1 day ago · Taking the femme fatale conceit to literal extremes, director Bob Rafelson, whose credits include Five Easy Pieces and the 1981 remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice, delivers a modern noir...
3 days ago · Bob Rafelson's 1970 classic Five Easy Pieces stars Jack Nicholson as the troubled, introspective Robert Dupea, a man torn between his working-class background and a privileged upbringing as he drifts through life searching for meaning. The film's masterful mixture of character study and social commentary elevates it among other movies about ...
3 days ago · Leaving Las Vegas follows a man who heads to Las Vegas to drink himself to death but finds an unexpected connection with a prostitute named Sera. The cast of the movie includes Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis, Steven Weber, Kim Adams, Emily Procter, Stuart Regen, Valeria Golino, Graham Beckel, Albert Henderson, and ...
3 days ago · Robert Towne, Writer of ‘Chinatown,’ Dies at 89. By Rick Schultz. Getty Images. Writer-director Robert Towne, an Oscar winner for his original script for “ Chinatown ” and an acknowledged ...
1 day ago · Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay. See also the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, a similar award for screenplays that are adaptations of pre-existing material.
5 days ago · A key female performer of the American film renaissance of the 1970s, Karen Black was known for her warm smile, sturdy-yet-fraught quality and imperfectly set eyes. In 1965, Black won a Drama Critics Award nomination in for her Broadway debut in the short-running "The Playroom," but subsequent...
