Some of these hot directors and movies will play as official selections of the upcoming Cannes Film Fest, May 13-24. “Chronic” Michel Franco Strong contender for Un Certain Regard and possibly even competition, the Mexican helmer’s first English-language feature stars Tim Roth as a depressed nurse who assists terminally ill patients. Roth boarded the project after serving as head […]
Movie Stars: Smith, Will–Still Globally Popular Star?
February 25, 2015 by
Will Smith needs to prove that he is still one of the most powerful Hollywood stars when Focus, his new heist romance with Margot Robbie, hits theaters.
Movie Stars: Depp, Johnny–Diminished Star? End of Box-Office Power?
January 25, 2015 by
It’s hard to remember the last time that Johnny Depp, the original and eccentric actor, made an artistically good or commercially accessible movie.
Movie Stars: Clift Became Hollywood’s Major Method Actor-Star before Brando
November 7, 2014 by
The Search is notable for other reasons. It established the actor Montgomery Clift as a major talent. Having just shot Howard Hawks’s epic Western, Red River, opposite John Wayne, Clift became the brightest male star to conquer Hollywood and to promote Method Acting in the film industry, two years before Marlon Brando made a splash with his stunning debut in The Men, which was also helmed by Zinnemann. Though The Search was Clift’s second film, it was theatrically released before Red River.
Cinema in Israel (2015): High-Profiled Fest Winners
The 2015 Jerusalem Film Fest Sam Spiegel Intl. Film Lab, has handed out its two prizes to two socially-engaged projects, “Darkroom” and “The Death of Black Horses.”