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Exclusive: HanWay Films has expanded its classics library after being appointed to represent The Cohen Film Collection.

The library of Cohen Media Group’s founder, Charles S. Cohen, comprises more than one hundred restored classic titles spanning from the silent era to the present day, including The Buster Keaton Collection and The Merchant Ivory Collection.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed and Cohen Media Group is the owner of HanWay, having acquired the company in 2022.

Late last year Charles Cohen’s media group hit choppy waters when the company was forced to sell multiple assets including British arthouse exhibitor and distributor Curzon to Fortress Investment Group. The company was acquired in a foreclosure auction involving multiple Cohen assets, including the Landmark cinema chain. Fortress had lent Cohen $534M but sued him last year for default. Cohen acquired Curzon in late 2019 amid a buying spree by the U.S. real estate developer.

Constance Cummings in 'Night After Night.' Constance Cummings: Working with Frank Capra and Mae West (See previous post: “Constance Cummings: Actress Went from Harold Lloyd to Eugene O'Neill.”) Back at Columbia, Harry Cohn didn't do a very good job at making Constance Cummings feel important. By the end of 1932, Columbia and its sweet ingenue found themselves in court, fighting bitterly over stipulations in her contract. According to the actress and lawyer's daughter, Columbia had failed to notify her that they were picking up her option. Therefore, she was a free agent, able to offer her services wherever she pleased. Harry Cohn felt otherwise, claiming that his contract player had waived such a notice. The battle would spill over into 1933. On the positive side, in addition to Movie Crazy 1932 provided Cummings with three other notable Hollywood movies: Washington Merry-Go-Round, American Madness, and Night After Night. 'Washington Merry-Go-Round...

Veterans Day movies on TCM: From 'The Sullivans' to 'Patton' (photo: George C. Scott in 'Patton') This evening, Turner Classic Movies is presenting five war or war-related films in celebration of Veterans Day. For those outside the United States, Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day, which takes place in late May. (Scroll down to check out TCM's Veterans Day movie schedule.) It's good to be aware that in the last century alone, the U.S. has been involved in more than a dozen armed conflicts, from World War I to the invasion of Iraq, not including direct or indirect military interventions in countries as disparate as Iran, Guatemala, and Chile. As to be expected in a society that reveres people in uniform, American war movies have almost invariably glorified American soldiers even in those rare instances when they have dared to criticize the military establishment.

To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation opens tonight with the North American premiere of a new restoration of Allan Dwan's The Iron Mask (1929). We'll be gathering notes on the series as it runs through November 22. Highlights include The Cave of the Silken Web, a silent film shot in 1927 in Shanghai by Dan Duyu, Henry Hathaway's To the Last Man (1933) featuring Randolph Scott and Shirley Temple, Luigi Comencini's La Ragazza di Bube (Bebo’s Girl, 1964) with Claudia Cardinale and George Chakiris, Canadian animation and more. » - David Hudson...

To Save and Project: The 12th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation opens tonight with the North American premiere of a new restoration of Allan Dwan's The Iron Mask (1929). We'll be gathering notes on the series as it runs through November 22. Highlights include The Cave of the Silken Web, a silent film shot in 1927 in Shanghai by Dan Duyu, Henry Hathaway's To the Last Man (1933) featuring Randolph Scott and Shirley Temple, Luigi Comencini's La Ragazza di Bube (Bebo’s Girl, 1964) with Claudia Cardinale and George Chakiris, Canadian animation and more. » - David Hudson...

The Venice Film Festival has unveiled the 21 restored films – 18 features and 3 shorts - that will screen in its Classics section of restored films.

The section, introduced in 2012, features a selection of classic film restorations completed over the past year by film libraries, cultural institutions or production companies around the world.

Director Giuliano Montaldo will chair the jury of film students which will award the Venice Classics Award for Best Restored Film and for Best Documentary on Cinema.

The 2014 Venice Classics line up:

Features

Baisers volés (Stolen Kisses), dir François Truffaut (France, 1968, Colour) restored by : Mk2

Bez końca (No End), dir Krzysztof Kieślowski (Poland, 1984, 108’, Colour) restored by: Studio Filmowe Tor with the support of the National Audiovisual Institute (the Multiannual Government Programme Culture +) and the Polish Film Institute

Gelin (Bride), dir Omer Lütfi Akad (Turkey, 1973, 92’, Colour) restored by: Erman Film

Guys and Dolls, dir Joseph L. Mankiewicz (USA, 1955, 150’, Colour) restored by: Warner Bros. Motion Pictures Imaging and [link...

Above: Calendar Girl (1947) / Pearl of the South Pacific (1955) / Frontier Marshal (1939)

Last October, my co-editor David Phelps and I released our first self-published e-book out into the world. It was entitled William A. Wellman: A Dossier, and after the somewhat life-changing experience we had discovering Wellman's films during his Film Forum retrospective, we were happy to have discovered a format that would allow us to curate, create, and share an anthology of criticism centered on Wellman's work.

After the release, David and I found ourselves contemplating what to do next, and our thoughts soon brought us back to a night when we screened Allan Dwan's Cattle Queen of Montana (1954), a Western unlike any Western we had seen. A movie that on paper is a simple genre exercise about a vengeful woman trying to regain her land and cattle but in practice is about how different people and events fill...

The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and specialty items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.

AC Comics

Golden Age Greats Spotlight Volume 12 Outrageous Girls Strike Back Tp, $29.95

Antarctic Press

Victorian Secret Agents Owls Of The Ironwork Isle #1 (Of 5), $3.95

Archie Comic Publications

Betty And Veronica #265 (Dan Parent Regular Cover), $2.99

Betty And Veronica #265 (Renae De Liz Variant Cover), $2.99

Betty And Veronica Friends Double Digest #233, $3.99

Knuckles The Echidna Archives Volume 4 Tp (not verified by Diamond), $9.99

Sonic Universe #51 (Patrick Spaziante Regular Cover), $2.99

Sonic Universe #51 (Patrick Spaziante Variant Cover), $2.99

World Of Archie Double Digest #28, $3.99

Aspen Comics

Idolized #5 (Cover A Pasquale Qualano), $3.99

Idolized #5 (Cover B Rachel Clark Photo), $3.99

Idolized #5 (Cover C Rachel Clark Photo), Ar

Jirni #1 (Of 5)(Paolo Pantalena Aspen Reserved Cover), $1.00

Jirni #1 (Of 5)(Paolo Pantalena Direct Market Cover), $1.00

Avatar Press

Crossed Badlands #27 (Jacen Burrows Red Crossed Incentive Cover...

If you’ve hunted around for movie bargains, you’ve probably seen some of Mill Creek Entertainment’s 50-Movie Packs on DVD. Apart from other great releases by Mill Creek, these packs are phenomenal boons to cinephiles looking to collect older titles.

There are three new packs available, and I want to not only let you in on a discount code, but I have one of the packs available for you to win.

I know a lot of people may be quick to overlook these packs, and not every movie included stands out as a major value, but there are some great titles in each of them, and fans of the genres will be pleasantly surprised by what they get out of the deal. I have to admit that there is something about seeing a 50-movie pack, especially when it doesn’t cost a couple of hundred dollars, or more,...

From Summit Entertainment comes this first trailer for The Three Musketeers by Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson.

I’m not opposed to Alexandre Dumas’ swashbuckling tale seeing a face-lift every couple of years, however this seems totally unnecessary. But if you’re gonna do that, you seriously better have an all-star cast…not Orlando Bloom and Milla Jovovich. While I’m a fan of the Michael York, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch 1973 version by director Richard Lester, my favorite Musketeer movie is Man In The Iron Mask. Now That is how you do it…John Malkovich, Jeremy Irons, Leo DiCaprio, Gabriel Byrne and Gérard Depardieu. Huge, Big Stars. That movie is awesome…and don’t even get me started on the score by Nick Glennie-Smith.

Synopsis:

The hot-headed young D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman) joins forces with three rogue Musketeers (Matthew MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson) in this reboot of Alexandre Dumas’ story.

At last we’re off to the races with the opening of Secretariat - the rousing tale of the 1973 Triple Crown winner and the greatest race horse of all time!

Based on the novel “Secretariat: The Making of a Champion” by William Nack, Secretariat centers on Penny Chenery (Diane Lane), Secretariat’s owner, and how she broke into the “boys only club” of thoroughbred horseracing in 1969. The real Penny Chenery, now 88, even has a cameo in the film as a spectator at the Belmont Stakes race. Walt Disney Pictures decided the time was right and put the story in the very capable hands of director Randall Wallace (Man In The Iron Mask, Braveheart screenplay) and writer Mike Rich (The Rookie). With the unbelievable, mud-in-your-face cinematography of Academy Award winner Dean Semler (Dances With Wolves) and the galloping sound work of 20 time Oscar-nominee Kevin O’Connell, Secretariat is as close...

From Secretariat.com and StitchKingdom come these beautiful new stills from Walt Disney Pictures upcoming film, Secretariat.

The sports drama is the story of how Secretariat’s owner Penny Chenery (Diane Lane) broke into the .all boys club. of thoroughbred horseracing and saw, along with the help of trainer Lucien Laurin (John Malkovich), her horse go on to fame by winning the Triple Crown in 1973. Just last month, we gave you an early look of Secretariat from a friend to Wamg’s who sat in on an early screening of Disney’s upcoming film.

From director Randall Wallace (Man in The Iron Mask; Braveheart scribe), Secretariat is rated PG for “brief mild language” and will gallop into theatres on October 8th.

Being billed as “super secret,” a first screening of Disney’s Secretariat was held Tuesday evening at the Woodland Hills AMC in Southern California. Just as Wamg’s did last March with our early look of X-men Origins: Wolverine, we again had one of our La based friends in the audience. Based on William Nack’s book, “Secretariat: The Making of a Champion,” Disney’s Secretariat is the story of the famous horse that won the 1973 Triple Crown.

Here we go:

Doesn’t it seem weird that there hasn’t already been a movie made about 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat, arguably one of the greatest, or perhaps the greatest race horse of all time?

Well the folks at Disney finally decided the time was right, and put the story in the very capable hands of director Randall Wallace (Man in The Iron Mask; Braveheart scribe) and writer Mike Rich...

Paul W.S. Anderson has announced plans to reinvent The Three Musketeers, in 3-D. Anderson will co-write and produce alongside long time producing partner Jeremy Bolt. A number of bloggers are saying he’ll also direct, but that’s an assumption at this point as the source doesn’t actually say that.

The Three Musketeers was created by Alexandre Dumas in 1844, and tells of a young man, d’Artagnan, who leaves home to join the fighting force of the French king’s royal household. There he becomes friends with three of the force’s best, and most disgraced, members: Athos, Porthos and Aramis.

“We are definitely modernizing,” Anderson says. “Without compromising the fun of shooting a period piece. In our film, corsets and feathered hats don’t take center stage. Our version is rich in eye-popping action, romance and adventure.”

A modernising sensibility can go too far (see the club...

Cinema Retro has just received this press release from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Of special note is that their March screenings include a rare theatrical showing of Blake Edwards' 1965 comedy The Great Race starring Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. The film is being screened as part of a tribute to costume designers. Natalie Wood in The Great Race

Friday, March 20, at 7:30 p.m.

at the Samuel Goldwyn TheaterTHE Thief Of Bagdad (1924)

Featuring a color-tinted print restored by Kevin Brownlow with

a stereo musical score composed by Carl Davis

Silent film legend Douglas Fairbanks delivers one of his most charismatic performances in “The Thief of Bagdad,” a rollicking adventure tale widely considered to be his masterpiece. Presented in celebration of the Academy’s new Douglas Fairbanks book and exhibition, this rare big-screen presentation also offers a dazzling display of silent film craftsmanship, highlighted by immense,...