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DIED. TERESA WRIGHT, 86, Hollywood actress who achieved the as-yet-unduplicated feat of winning an Oscar nomination for each of her first three films; in New Haven, Conn. After making her screen debut as Bette Davis' daughter in 1941's The Little Foxes, she played Lou Gehrig's wife in The Pride of the Yankees and won an Oscar for her role as Greer Garson's daughter-in-law in Mrs. Miniver. Her wholesome but refined screen presence graced some of the best films of the '40s, including Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt and William Wyler...
...obvious failure; he's a pompous but lovable loser. "I myself am a lovable loser. So it's an easy transition," Carell says while sitting in the trailer for his upcoming movie, The 40-Year-Old Virgin. "I'm more loser than lovable, but I bring lovable to the screen. That's where all the craft and years of school and Uta Hagen come...
Certainly a lot of “blockbusters” and “long-awaited films” are making it to the screen this year (perhaps more than usual). But does the world really need a mega-budget screen version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, which means more dopey Christian allegory than The Lord of the Rings already provided? And Hollywood apparently missed the joke of Team America: World Police’s hilarious spoof of the Broadway musical Rent (“Everyone has AIDS! My father…AIDS! My sister?...
...cinema is our fantasy and it is thus our experience. The cinema is mine and not yours—I experience it in my whole being and however you relate to it lies in the processes of your own subjectivity. The screen relates to me, and my dreams—and it enters me through a place that will open only for the filmed image...
...start of the infamous 1915 silent film The Birth of a Nation, white words on a black screen declare: “A PLEA FOR THE MOTION PICTURE…. We do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue—the same liberty that is conceded to the art of the written word—that art to which we owe the Bible and the works of Shakespeare...