Producer Sam Spiegel (The African Queen, Lawrence of Arabia) hired Orson Welles to both direct and star in this suspense thriller, written by Anthony Veiller and an uncredited John Huston. In one of ...
In the performance that would define his career, Marlon Brando plays Terry Malloy, a onetime prizefighter now resigned to backbreaking work as a longshoreman on docks ruled by a ruthless union boss ...
Filmed extensively on location in Uzbekistan and Egypt with a cast of thousands, Pharaoh, a Foreign Language Film nominee, delves into the brief and tumultuous reign of Ramses XIII during the 12th ...
In conjunction with the International Documentary Association’s Getting Real ’16 conference, the Academy is pleased to present an evening dedicated to early documentary film adventures and discoveries ...
Charlie Chaplin’s “Little Tramp” character was once the most widely recognized figure in the entire world. Discover the first-ever filmed images of the Tramp as film historian and preservationist ...
Lee won a Student Academy Award for this hour-long film, which he made as his master’s thesis for NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Monty Ross (who would go on to co-produce several of Lee’s features, ...
Peter Lev, 2008 Academy Film Scholar and Professor of Electronic Media and Film at Towson University, will discuss the history and transformation of Twentieth Century-Fox during the Zanuck-Skouras era ...
“Worked with Billy Wilder, who paces constantly, has over-extravagant ideas, but is stimulating. He has humor – a kind of humor that sparks with mine.” - excerpt from Charles Brackett’s diary (1936) ...
Penelope Spheeris delves into the clubs and bars of late 80's Hollywood to reveal the absurd heights (or lows?) of rockstar debauchery in Part II of her Decline of Western Civilization trilogy. The ...
The fateful final days of painter Vincent van Gogh in France’s Auvers-sur-Oise are given a sober rendering by writer-director Maurice Pialat. Jacques Dutronc (Every Man for Himself, Merci pour le ...
Pre-screening presentation by Academy governor and Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth Carter and 3D designer Julia Koerner. Original costumes from Black Panther were on display, plus hands-on costume ...
The fascinating eccentricities of the Beales – widow “Big Edie” and “Little Edie,” her flamboyant daughter – are forever preserved in this bittersweet cinéma vérité classic, newly restored by the ...