With the chatter over Jodorowsky’s Dune, which chronicles the avant-garde director’s quixotic mid-’70s bid to lens the Frank Herbert sci-fi opus, we’re offering a dozen favorite films about filmmaking.
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Movie Poster Doppelgangers: The Teen Years
Doppelgangers has turned 13. Can’t say we’ve really matured though! We’re still poking fun at film posters that appear to have cloned other one-sheets. Either that or they’re just all instances of blameless coincidence. You be the judge. Lookout! ….
Read more →New This Week: Endless Love, Gambit and More
This week marks the unofficial start of summer, and there are some hot titles coming out on DVD and Blu-ray. Remakes of Endless Love and Gambit, a look at the creation of “Doctor Who,” and more are on tap.
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Golden Anniversary Movie from 1964?
My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, Goldfinger, Dr. Strangelove: several memorable movies are turning 50 this year. MovieFanFare wants to know which film released in 1964 is your favorite.
Read more →This Week in Film History, 05.25.14
Ripley? Believe it or not, it’s been 25 years since jolted audiences were dropping their popcorn with the opening of Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi shocker Alien. We’re just bursting with movie minutiae to share.
Read more →The Helen Morgan Story (1957): Torch Song Tragedy
Ann Blyth won critical praise for her portrayal of a troubled ’20s songstress and Broadway star. Guest writer Jessica Pickens reviews the song-filled 1957 biodrama The Helen Morgan Story.
Read more →New This Week: Clark Gable, Orson Welles, Abbott and Costello and More
A quartet of ’30s movies starring Clark Gable, the Blu-ray debut of a timeless noir thriller by Orson Welles, and classic TV comedy with Abbott and Costello are among this week’s vintage new releases.
Read more →Casting Today’s Stars as Yesterday’s Stars
Who should play Bette Davis in a big-screen biopic? Can anyone accurately portray the magnetism of Sean Connery? Who would dare play the Duke in a film about his life? Guest blogger Blair Kramer has a few suggestions!
Read more →The Tyrone Power/Loretta Young Romantic Comedies of 1937
In 1937, 20th Century-Fox paired Tyrone Power and Loretta Young in a trio of popular, light-hearted romances. Guest writer The Lady Eve reviews Love Is News, Cafe Metropole and Second Honeymoon…and looks at the tales of the duo’s off-camera relationship.
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Korean War-Set Movie?
With Memorial Day Weekend on the horizon, MovieFanFare remembers the conflict known as “America’s Forgotten War” and asks which film set during the Korean War–from The Steel Helmet to Pork Chop Hill to M*A*S*H and others–is your favorite.
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