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...John Garfield) and probing issues of bygone days (political messages in '50s genre films). These give context to the programming and serve as valuable extras on TCM DVDs. The policy also means that my long-TIME colleague, Richard Schickel - who's done exemplary studies of Scorsese, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard for TCM - doesn't have to go on food stamps. The channel runs some Schickel doc nearly every month. Tune in for a fun film education. (See Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel's All-TIME 100 Movies...
...course, there were cult movies, and Ballard became best known for those: Steven Spielberg's WW II epic Empire of the Sun and David Cronenberg's adaptation of Crash, the 1996 shock flick that caused a stunned moral panic in Britain 23 years after Ballard's novel was published...
...Doctor Zhivago. The French composer, who died Sunday in Los Angeles at 84, after a losing bout with cancer, wrote the scores for more than 150 features, but he'll always be associated with Lean, as much as Bernard Herrmann is with Alfred Hitchcock or John Williams with Steven Spielberg. The director devises the images; the composer gives them emotional heft. Both the pictures and their accompanying sounds lodge indelibly in moviegoers' memories. (See pictures of the Venice Film Festival...
...Jonas Brothers movie, you sat through nearly a dozen trailers for 3-D movies to be released this year. Perhaps you saw the latest issues of TIME, People and three other Time Inc. publications promoting 3-D as "pretty darn cool," and citing such top directors as Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Peter Jackson as being in love with the process...
...sales and the prospect of hard times. Monsters vs Aliens, which opened Friday, is bound to be the weekend's big picture. Cameron's 3-D Avatar, his first feature film since Titanic in 1997, is the gotta-see event of 2009; and any film in the process by Spielberg, Jackson, Robert Zemeckis or Robert Rodriguez should be exciting, if only because the directors will be juiced playing with this marvelous toy. But can the format transcend its status as an event, or a gimmick, and become the way most people see most movies? Is three automatically better than...