Topic: Preston Sturges
Thurs., Jan. 19. . The American Cinematheque kicks off the first night of its Luis Bunuel mini-retrospective with L'Age d'Or, his wildly surrealist...
DOUBLE, DOUBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE. The Gallery Players theater company presents "Macbeth." Shakespeare's "Scottish Play" about murder and vaulting...
A disaffected and alcoholic, forgotten, homeless man named McGinty (Donlevy) is hard up for the basic necessities of life but longs most of all for his next drink. Preston Sturges directorial debut was also Brian Donlevy's first starring role. Many think ...
"Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known"
A 1940s Hollywood director named John Lloyd Sullivan (McCrae) is still hot from a recent Hollywood success. Sullivan is the humourless type who needs to ask if he is laughing when ...
0 . Dear Mick LaSalle: When you do a review, do you judge the movie by what type of movies you like, or do you judge the movie by its merits?. ...
N., has picked the theme of "Anti-Depressant" for its annual Lenten Film Series, and we can think of few films that cheer us up more than Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels, which kicks off the series at 7 p.m. Sullivan's ...
Under George Cukor's canny direction John and Lionel Barrymore, sex goddess Jean Harlow, and comedians Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery enliven the sophisticated dialogue, revolving around the lives of financial predators, actors on the rocks, hatcheck girls on the way up ...
The funniest movie we've seen all summer, the British political satire In the Loop, arrives Friday at The Belcourt as part of the historic Hillsboro Village theater's " show Friday night, featuring food from Sunset Grill, Midtown Cafe, Cabana, Fido and ...
The smell of wet garbage and puke permeates the 3:30 a.m. I'm bound for Jamaica, where I'll be covering the country's Calabash International Literary Festival. A representative from Jamaica's tourism department welcomes me to Montego Bay ...
Save your pennies, skip Film Forum and watch our classic pick on TV! The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (TCM, Sunday, 10:15 am) was the Juno of 1944. But Morgan's Creek is a pretty great time, mostly because you can ...