It’s been 23 years since Anthony Hopkins first frightened filmgoers as Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. We’re serving up more movie milestones with fava beans and a nice chianti.
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It Was Fifty Years Ago This Weekend…
Has it really been half a century since The Beatles first appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show? MovieFanfare looks back at that night as we list other key nuggets from Fab Four history available on home video…and you know that can’t be bad.
Read more →Six Pix: Olympics
Six Pix presents a sextet of movie posters representing a particular actor/director/genre. You pick the one you feel is visually the most artistic or best sums up the film. The Six Pix of Olympics is about to begin—which poster will…
Read more →Into a Black Hole of Happiness
Two acclaimed, Oscar-winning actors passed away this past weekend. MovieFanFare takes a moment to remember the lives and careers of Maximilian Schell and Philip Seymour Hoffman, with a focus on a lesser-known role from each man’s remarkable body of work.
Read more →If Not Her, Then Who?
Did you love “Her”? Spike Jonze’s talked-about film and I weren’t the perfect match, but I don’t regret our first get-together, as it led me to a terrific little documentary about the nature of modern love, and thoughts about other great movies on the subject.
Read more →This Week in Film History, 02.02.14
Has it really been exactly 40 years since Mel Brooks’ gloriously improper western spoof, Blazing Saddles, came ridin’ into theaters, a-whompin’ and a-whumpin’? We’ve got a heady mix (that’s Hedley!) of factoids for you.
Read more →What’s the Best 1970s “Best Picture” Oscar Winner?
Wartime drama, Mafia weddings, nervous romances: the Best Picture winners of the 1970s had it all. Which of the Academy’s picks do you think was the decade’s finest? Let us know in this week’s poll.
Read more →Originally Starring 5
An actor lands a film role. That’s where it all begins, right? Not for Originally Starring. For us that’s the end. We want to know what happened before that (and make some Photoshop magic along the way). For instance, Betty…
Read more →Maybe You Dream of Jeannie, But These Are My TV Girlfriends
Do you Love Lucy? Dream of Jeannie? As we’ve seen from past “Celebrity Crushes” posts, fans know what they like. Over the years, I’ve become attached to a few feisty TV females–and the beautiful women who’ve played those characters to perfection.
Read more →Royale Treatment: A 20th Anniversary Look at Pulp Fiction
1994: It was a lot tougher to spend five bucks on a milkshake, and we all wondered what Quentin Tarantino would do for an encore after Reservoir Dogs. With 20 years gone, we look back at the hubbub that surrounded the release of Pulp Fiction.
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