Mother’s Day: Screen Mothers
Lead and supporting actresses include Shirley MacLaine, Frances McDormand, Brie Larson, Allison Janney, Sophia Loren, Julia Roberts, Joan Crawford and others.
Film Criticism: Notes
We now reject French Andre Bazin’s idealist theory of the camera as reality, and the construct of image-spectator, the notion of film is an “unmediated” reality.
Movie Stars: Jordan, Michael B.–Charismatic Actor for Our Troubled Times
Jordan reprised the role of Creed in Creed II (2018), and is set to star, and make his directorial debut, in Creed III (2022).
Rage to Live, A (1965): Walter Grauman’s Melodrama, Starring Suzanne Pleshette as Sexually Voracious Femme
Walter Grauman directed A Rage to Live, a preposterous melodrama starring Suzanne Pleshette as a woman whose unbridled sexual passions wreak havoc on her life.
Movie Stars: Approach–Dyer Classification of Types
The perspective of auteurism led to studies of actors-stars as auteurs, performers who had an unusual control over their careers and screen images–Fred Astaire, James Cagey, Bogart, Garbo, John Wayne.
Indie Companies: Brainstorm Media
Founded in 1995, Brainstorm Media is a full-service boutique U.S. film distributor and production company. Recent releases include THE WOLF HOUR starring Naomi Watts, WORKING MAN starring Peter Gerety and Talia Shire.
When We Leave: Directed, Written by Feo Aladag–Festival Winner
When We Leave is a riveting and heartbreaking story of a woman trapped in an abusive relationship, who must not only free herself from that marriage, but also the cultural prejudices and judgments that would keep her there.
Movie Stars: Approaches, Concepts, Theories
Research in Progress: April 27, 2021. There are different approaches to the study of movie stardom as a socio-cultural phenomenon and to movie stars as individual figures: Parker Tyler takes both a mythological and psychoanalytic approach to stardom. He believes that movie stars are “the gods and goddesses of Hollywood, the vestiges of the old […]
Movie Stars: Dee, Sandra–Background, Career, Awards
Sandra Dee became a teenage star for her performances in Imitation of Life and Gidget (both 1959), which made her a household name.
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Israel: Movie Theaters–Cinema Hen (Dizengoff Square)
Open gallery view Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Square in the ’60s. Credit: Moshe Milner / GPO