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Actor Milla Jovovich saw her breakthrough role in 1997, when she played Leeloo in The Fifth Element. Jovovich had taken on supporting roles in movies such as Chaplin and Dazed and Confused, but her bigger role in The Fifth Element made Hollywood aware of who she was. The sci-fi movie was also significant in her life in that it brought together her and director Luc Besson. Besson and Jovovich entered a relationship and married in 1997.

However, Jovovich and Besson's romantic bond was not long for this world. While the pair would go on to make another movie together, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, in 1999, their marriage ended up falling apart. Besson and Jovovich got divorced in 1999, after only two years of marriage. Now, the actor has been married to director Paul W.S. Anderson, who she also met on a set, since 2009. But reflecting on her divorce, Jovovich recalls...

Chappell Roan brought the 2025 Grammys crowd to the “Pink Pony Club.”

The 26-year-old, up for a total of six awards at the ceremony including best new artist and album of the year, made her debut on the Grammys’ stage with Sunday night‘s performance.

Roan catapulted into megastardom last year. Her debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, made its Billboard 200 debut in April, months after its September 2023 release. The impressive feat proved to be only the beginning as the singer had several of her debut album’s songs chart on the Billboard 100 throughout 2024. “Pink Pony Club,” originally released in 2020, has spent 32 weeks on chart and currently sits at No. 46.

Olivia Rodrigo, who brought Roan out with her as a supporting act on her recent tours, introduced her friend. “I grew up in southwest Missouri in a small town called Willard. I felt very isolated. It felt...

Martin Scorsese’s “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints,” an ambitious eight-part documentary series, dives deeply into the lives of outstanding Catholic saints and takes him into unknown spiritual ground. This pioneering endeavor goes beyond standard hagiography to portray these great figures as complex human beings with extraordinary problems. The series, which premieres on Fox Nation, promises to reveal the intricate biographies of eight saints who displayed amazing faith throughout history’s most difficult times.

The series is divided into two waves, with the first four episodes released in successive weeks and the following four slated to air during the spring Holy Season. Scorsese, famed for his deeply philosophical approach to storytelling, serves as executive producer and narrator, lending his trademark cinematic gravitas to these spiritual narratives.

Each episode precisely recreates a saint’s pilgrimage, combining scripted reenactments with scholarly interpretations. From Joan of Arc’s combat bravery to lesser-known stories of spiritual perseverance,...

Martin Scorsese may be one of the godfathers of cinema, but now the iconic auteur is turning his lens to the Holy Father.

Scorsese hosts, narrates, and executive produces Fox Nation original docudrama streaming series, “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints.” IndieWire can reveal a sneak peek at the show, which debuts November 17. The premiere episode centers on Joan of Arc, with each installment centering on a different saint.

“Joan led her army on a relentless march north,” Scorsese says onscreen in the premiere episode clip. “Every victory on the battlefield took her one step closer to her ultimate goal.”

The docuseries includes other saints like John the Baptist, Sebastian, Maximilian Kolbe, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, and Moses the Black. The series will encompass 2,000 years of history to tell the story of “eight men and women who risked everything to embody humanity’s most noble and complex trait — faith.

Chris Evans has been sporting a bushy new beard on his Red One press tour and he’s explaining the choice behind the facial hair.

The 43-year-old actor was asked about his new look while attending the Red One premiere in New York City on Monday (November 11).

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Chris told Entertainment Tonight that the beard is for “a job I am working on.”

“It’s a film called Sacrifice with Anya Taylor-Joy and John Malkovich,” Chris added. The star-studded cast also includes Brendan Fraser, Salma Hayek, Charli Xcx, and Vincent Cassel, among others.

Deadline reports that Sacrifice — loosely inspired by the Joan Of Arc story — “tells the story of Joan (Taylor-Joy), a zealous spirit driven by a volcanic prophecy only she can hear, who is on a mission to save the world from a fiery reckoning. Along with her militia of mystical disciples, she hijacks...

Establishing her position in Hollywood as the reigning queen of the dark, following her appearance in the Wednesday TV series, Jenna Ortega became one of the most defining faces in Hollywood. Thereafter, appearing in the Scream franchise and even making her way into Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Ortega catapulted her stardom among the younger generation.

Jenna Ortega in Wednesday (2022) | image: Netflix

However, in a surprising twist, despite Jenna Ortega’s success in the realm of horror and thriller, which has defined her career graph, the actress revealed a surprising choice for her dream role. After carving a distinct niche for herself with captivating performances in contemporary television and film, Ortega expressed her desire to embody the historical figure that echoed the career trajectory of the legendary Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman.

Jenna Ortega Aspires to Portray the Complex Historical Figure, Joan of Arc

Known for her compelling portrayal of Wednesday...

Ingrid Bergman portrayed Joan of Arc three times in both theater and film, winning acclaim and awards for her performances. Despite the different movies receiving mixed reception, her role as Joan of Arc remains one of Bergman's most iconic throughout her career. Bergman had a successful career portraying real people, winning awards for roles in films like Anastasia and A Woman Named Golda.

Throughout Hollywood history, many actors have played iconic roles in different movies with one particular role defying their success. Many actors in the industry have played the same role in completely different movies. One particular actress played one role three times across her career and this role helped define her as one of the most legendary performers in Hollywood history.

Ingrid Bergman made her acting career in the 1935 Swedish film Munkbrogreven, which saw her land a film studio contract. She made her U.S. debut in the...

Over Hollywood’s century-long history, women have played an integral part both as actresses on the screen, as well as creators behind the scenes. Many have fought to establish themselves in a male-dominated world, and have earned their place in history alongside the best, even managing to show out at the most prestigious awards ceremony — the Academy Awards. In celebration of Women’s History Month 2024, and the recent 96th Oscars ceremony, following is a list of 26 women who have earned eight or more Oscar nominations. Scroll through our photo gallery above (or click here for direct access).

One area in which women have dominated Oscar nominations is writing. Going all the way back to the second ceremony, Josephine Lovett earned a bid for “Our Dancing Daughters,” while Bess Meredyth received two noms for “A Woman of Affairs” and “Wonder of Women.” The next year, Frances Marion became the first woman...

Over Hollywood’s century-long history, women have played an integral part both as actresses on the screen, as well as creators behind the scenes. Many have fought to establish themselves in a male-dominated world, and have earned their place in history alongside the best, even managing to show out at the most prestigious awards ceremony — the Academy Awards. In celebration of Women’s History Month 2024, and the recent 96th Oscars ceremony, following is a list of 26 women who have earned eight or more Oscar nominations. Scroll through our photo gallery below.

One area in which women have dominated Oscar nominations is writing. Going all the way back to the second ceremony, Josephine Lovett earned a bid for “Our Dancing Daughters,” while Bess Meredyth received two noms for “A Woman of Affairs” and “Wonder of Women.” The next year, Frances Marion became the first woman to triumph in a non-gendered category,...

Since 92 films have won the Oscar for Best Costume Design, it stands to reason that there has been some overlap when it comes to their casts. Indeed, hundreds of actors have each appeared in at least two of those movies, with 31 having played credited roles in three or more. Scroll through our photo gallery to find out which 23 men and eight women have donned the most Oscar-winning outfits.

Costume designers were first honored at the 21st Academy Awards in 1949, when “Hamlet” and “Joan of Arc” were respectively chosen as the black-and-white and color films with the most impressive garments. After being temporarily combined from 1958-1959, those two categories permanently merged in 1968, the year that vibrant musical “Camelot” took the prize. Eight of said 31 performers (including half of the actresses) are on the roster thanks to their appearances in films shot in both styles.

Of the 51 movies included on this list,...

Since 92 films have won the Oscar for Best Costume Design, it stands to reason that there has been some overlap when it comes to their casts. Indeed, hundreds of actors have each appeared in at least two of those movies, with 31 having played credited roles in three or more. Scroll through our photo gallery to find out which 23 men and eight women have donned the most Oscar-winning outfits.

Costume designers were first honored at the 21st Academy Awards in 1949, when “Hamlet” and “Joan of Arc” were respectively chosen as the black-and-white and color films with the most impressive garments. After being temporarily combined from 1958-1959, those two categories permanently merged in 1968, the year that vibrant musical “Camelot” took the prize. Eight of said 31 performers (including half of the actresses) are on the roster thanks to their appearances in films shot in both styles.

Of the 51 movies included on this list,...

Out of the many movies you could imagine emerging from the mind of French auteur Bruno Dumont, a Star Wars parody was probably somewhere at the bottom of the list.

And yet it’s been some time since the Cannes Grand Jury Prize laureate, who broke out in the late 90s with viscerally stylized, hard-hitting works of Gallic realism like The Life of Jesus and Humanity, has strayed far from his gritty roots towards a brand of accentuated arthouse satire.

His latest effort, the sci-fi farce The Empire (L’Empire), definitely fits the latter mold, although it’s loaded with enough VFX, light saber battles, spacecrafts and prophecies to give George Lucas a run for his money. That is, if Lucas decided to set the next Star Wars in a sleepy northern French city, used a local mechanic to play one of the leads and tossed in a few flagrant sex scenes,...

It is increasingly weird to recall that for a while, French director Bruno Dumont was the kind of filmmaker who reminded you, often forcibly and somewhat against your will, that the word “auteur” contains most of the letters of “austere.” “The Empire,” another of the director’s proudly off-kilter comedies that pitches the bumbling denizens of a small French village into a vast, sinister conspiracy extending far beyond their foreshortened horizons, hovers several light years — and two janky light sabers — away from austerity. Unfortunately, though, the air out there is also a little thin on hilarity, with the film’s one-gag setup becoming stretched to the point that it doesn’t even matter that it’s a pretty good gag.

The humor, as ever with the Dumont of “Li’l Quinquin” and “Slack Bay,” derives largely from the collision of the grandiose with the drolly mundane. This time out, harking back to,...

The following contains spoilers for Season 2 of Clone High, now streaming on Max.

After a thirteen-episode season in 2003, unexpected controversy and a swift cancelation, Clone High has returned to the airwaves. The show acknowledges the 20-year jump with the clones being unfrozen in the Shadowy Board of Secret Figures' new plan, Operation Spread Eagle. Unaware of what's in store, the clones return to everyday high school life while adjusting to new friends, technology and social politics.

The one who benefits most from the transition is, inarguably, Nicole Sullivan's Joan of Arc. Originally a moody outsider who spent the first season pining for her clueless best friend, Abe Lincoln, Joan becomes one of the most popular students at the school. She makes new friends in Frida Kahlo and Harriet Tubman, buries the hatchet with her rival, Cleopatra (voiced by Mitra Jouhari), and even finds a boyfriend in JFK just as...

Margherita Mazzucco on the connection with Saverio Costanzo, Susanna Nicchiarelli, and Chiara: “I was shooting My Brilliant Friend and I received this call from Susanna …” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Susanna Nicchiarelli’s Chiara, starring Margherita Mazzucco was a highlight of Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà’s 22nd edition of Open Roads: New Italian Cinema. Resembling Bruno Dumont’s approach of how to look at past centuries through the cinema lens of the 21st century, there are dances and wielding wild nature and commonplace miracles that stun nevertheless.

Margherita Mazzucco as Chiara: “She did these incredible things by herself and I’m very happy to portray this character.”

Chiara, St. Clare of Assisi (played with vigour and poise by Mazzucco), a disciple of St. Francis of Assisi (Andrea Carpenzano), is front and centre in Nicchiarelli’s take on what it could have meant to be a woman in the 13th Century,...

With the long-delayed 74th Tony Awards set for Sept. 26 at the Winter Garden and streaming on Paramount + and a CBS special, let’s take a deep dive into Tony Awards history and look back at the first decade. Broadway was bristling with excitement post World War II. Young playwrights such as Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and William Inge breathed new life into the Great White Way. And new talents electrifying audiences included Marlon Brando, Julie Harris and Gwen Verdon. It was the perfect time for the creation of the Tony Awards in 1947. The Antoinette Perry Awards or Theatre Excellence were named after the legendary theater actress who was co-founder of the American Theatre Wing; she had died in 1946.

The first annual Tony Awards took place on April 6, 1947 at the Waldorf Astoria and was broadcast on radio on Wor and Mutual Network radio. There was no categories for best play or musical,...

After a 15 months delay, the 74th annual Tony Awards honoring the best of Broadway will be held September 26 on CBS and Paramount +. And there a lot of familiar faces expected at the ceremony at the Winter Garden Theatre including six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald, who is nominated for the revival of “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune”; Jane Alexander, who won her first Tony Award 52 years ago for “The Great White Hope” and contends for “Grand Horizons”; and 90-year-old Lois Smith, who made her Broadway debut nearly 70 years ago, is up for “The Inheritance.”

The Tony Awards first ceremony, held April 6 1947 at the Grand Ballroom of the famed Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City, was a vastly different affair. Awards were handed out in only eight categories. Producer, director and Tony founder Brock Pemberton was the host of the evening which was broadcast on Wor and Mutual Network radio stations.

“Jeanne” (“Joan of Arc”), Bruno Dumont’s musical sequel to “Jeanette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc,” has been sold to multiple major territories by Paris-based Luxbox.

Written by Dumont and based on the writings of France’s Charles Péguy, “Joan of Arc” adapts the second and third parts of the stage play “The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc.” These take Joan of Arc’s story through her victorious battles against the English, to court case and death, burnt at the stake.

In the 15th century, France and England both claimed the French throne as their own. Believing herself ordained by God, young Joan takes charge of the armies of the King of France. Eventually Joan is captured and the Church puts her on trial, charged with heresy, a crime punishable by death.

The companies and territories in which Luxbox has closed deals so far are Brooklyn-based...

After grabbing Cannes’ Un Certain Regard preemed Oliver Laxe’s Fire Will Come earlier this month, the Brooklyn based distrib KimStim have gone back to the Cannes sidebar to land yet another prize winner in Bruno Dumont’s Joan of Arc. Dumont has been on a remarkable film per year run since 2016’s Slack Bay with On a Half Clear Morning set to premiere at a major film fest next year. KimStim (who released Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc) plan to release Joan of Arc in the summer of 2020. We were at the awards ceremony to witness Laxe and Dumont receive their prizes.…...

French director Bruno Dumont's 15th century period drama "Joan Of Arc", stars 10-year old Lise Leplat Prudhomme as the legendary young warrior who inspired the French Army into battle, only to be charged with witchcraft and heresy, followed by a gruesome burning at the stake:

"It's an epic film," said Dumont. "A gothic action film. 'Game of Thrones' draws so heavily on the Middle Ages that today any historical evocation reminds us of it. With 'Joan of Arc' all the facts and characters are authentic.

"This is the first time that the main actor has been 10 years old, when she was 39, say, in a previous production. 'Joan of Arc' in fact died at the age of 19. The freedom of interpretation is therefore infinite, just like the style, because what is at stake is timeless and accuracy is no match for that."

"I’m very fond of this...

One of the most acclaimed directors working in France today, Bruno Dumont doesn’t tend to repeat himself. In the last decade, he has gone from making a supernatural thriller set in the countryside (“Outside Satan”) to a classical biopic (“Camille Claudel 1915”) to a whimsical TV series about bumbling detectives (“Lil Quinquin”) and a surrealist comedy of manners (“Slack Bay”).

For his Cannes-premiering “Joan of Arc,” however, Dumont is returning to recent turf. The period drama follows 2017’s “Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc,” a deadpan portrait of the future martyr’s childhood that was set to heavy metal music. For “Joan of Arc,” Dumont follows his “Jeanette” star Lise Leplat Prudhomme into the famous 15th century saga as she leads the French army on a holy mission that leads to charges of heresy and, eventually, her death.

Like “Jeanette,” the new movie draws on a revisionist approach to...

One part whodunnit, one part character drama, Jake Scott’s “American Woman” follows its eponymous leading lady over the course of a decade, one marked by heartbreak and a terrible crime. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, where Miller’s performance earned her some of the best reviews of her career yet.

The film picks up as Miller’s Deb Callahan approaches her mid-thirties in a poor Rust Belt town, mixed up in a life that’s already been marred by some terrible choices. Deb is barely holding things together, from her thankless job as a supermarket cashier to her ill-advised romance with a local married man, and her teenage daughter Bridget (Sky Ferreira) seems doomed to repeat her mom’s mistakes. As the two Callahan women try to carve out a better life for Bridget’s own baby, tragedy strikes when Bridget goes missing.

Little Mix switch it up with the sassy, trap-pop new track “Joan of Arc.” The quartet’s fifth album, titled LM5, will be released on November 16th. The empowering bop has the girl group celebrating independence above a bouncy, trap-inflected beat.

“Fannin’ myself/I’m stannin’ myself/I love me so much I put my hands on myself,” they sing before the chorus. Later a distorted masculine voice starts a call-and-response with “Oh you on that feminist tip?” before the girls enthusiastically respond “Hell yeah I am!” in a gang vocal.

The cream of German Expressionist filmmaking of the 1920s is increasingly accessible to modern audiences. The curated restoration of F.W. Murnau’s expressionist masterpiece is a beauty — we finally can experience the film in its full original form.

The Last Laugh

Blu-ray

Kino Lorber Kino Classics

1924 / B&W / 1:37 flat full frame / 90 min. / Der letze mann / Street Date November 14, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring: Emil Jannings, Georg John.

Cinematography: Karl Freund

Film Editor: Elfi Böttrich

Production Design: Edgar G. Ulmer

Original Music: Giuseppe Becce

Written by Carl Mayer

Produced by Erich Pommer

Directed by F. W. Murnau

Back in the early 1970s film school professors had limited resources. They lectured, assigned readings from a short list of authoritative film scholars and screened 16mm prints of renowned world classics. The only problem is that it was often difficult to correlate the classics described in the texts with the ragged film prints available.

Crime novel The Blank Wall by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding. While her husband is away during World War II, housewife Lucia Holley – the sort of “Everywoman” who looks great in a two-piece bathing suit – does whatever it takes to protect the feeling of “normality” in her bourgeois, suburban household. The Blank Wall is a classic depiction of an attempted cover-up being much more serious than the actual crime. Sound bites: Remembering the classic crime novel 'The Blank Wall' and its two movie adaptations – 'The Reckless Moment' & 'The Deep End' Crime novel writer Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (1889–1955) is not a name familiar to many, and yet Raymond Chandler described her as “the top suspense writer of them all. She doesn't pour it on and make you feel irritated. Her characters are wonderful; and she has a sort of inner calm which I find very attractive.” Holding has been identified as “The Godmother of Noir” and, more...

Countless masters of cinema have tried their hand at the historic Joan of Arc story, including Carl Theodor Dreyer, Victor Fleming, Robert Bresson and Jacques Rivette. Any of these filmmakers would make for a tough act to follow, but that didn’t dissuade Bruno Dumont from realizing his own take on the material, “Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc,” premiering in the Director’s Fortnight program of the Cannes Film Festival.

Continue reading Bruno Dumont’s ‘Jeannette: The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc’ Is An Unbearable, Shallow Provocation [Cannes Review] at The Playlist.

This past weekend, the American Society of Cinematographers awarded Greig Fraser for his contribution to Lion as last year’s greatest accomplishment in the field. Of course, his achievement was just a small sampling of the fantastic work from directors of photography, but it did give us a stronger hint at what may be the winner on Oscar night. Ahead of the ceremony, we have a new video compilation that honors all the past winners in the category at the Academy Awards

Created by Burger Fiction, it spans the stunning silent landmark Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans all the way up to the end of Emmanuel Lubezki‘s three-peat win for The Revenant. Aside from the advancements in color and aspect ration, it’s a thrill to see some of cinema’s most iconic shots side-by-side. However, the best way to experience the evolution of the craft is by...

The story didn’t end with the Miracle in the Hudson – hero pilot Sully Sullenberger is tried by an investigative committee. Clint Eastwood’s film examines and re-examines the 2.5 minutes, as the bureaucrats make the case that 155 passengers were unnecessarily put at risk.

Sully

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD

Warner Brothers Home Video

2016 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 96 min. / Street Date December 20, 2016 / 35.99

Starring Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhardt, Laura Linney, Jamey Sheridan, Mike O’Malley, Anna Gunn, Ann Cusack, Christopher Curry.

Cinematography Tom Stern

Film Editor Blu Murray

Original Music Christian Jacob, Tierney Sutton Band

Written by Todd Komarnicki from a book by Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger, Jeffrey Zaslow.

Produced by Clint Eastwood, Frank Marshall, Tim Moore, Allyn Stewart

Directed by Clint Eastwood

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

In this year’s Sully Clint Eastwood found what I like to call an unbreakable story. This one poses a tricky narrative challenge — the only action content in...

Hollywood's most elegantly natural, defiantly independent actress comes alive in a film biography about her personal life, using inside family testimony, rare film and her diaries. Sweden's Ingrid seems more radiant than ever. Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 82228 2015 / B&W-Color / 1:78 widescreen / 114 min. / Jag är Ingrid / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date August 16, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Pia Lindström, Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Rossellini, Isabella Rossellini, Fiorella Mariani, Liv Ullmann, Sigourney Weaver, Jeanine Basinger. Ingrid Bergman's voice Alicia Vikander Film Editor Dominika Daubenbüchel Original Music Michael Nyman Written by Stig Björkman, Stina Gardell and Dominika Daubenbüchel Produced by Stina Gardell Directed by Stig Björkman

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Ingrid Bergman had one of the most fascinating lives of any woman of the 20th century. An ambitious actress, she let herself be guided by her desires and her heart. Although banished by Hollywood and vilified by the press,...

★★★☆☆ "I am Ingrid. This is my story." Without any air of superiority these straightforward intentions rather understate the life less ordinary laid bare during Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words. They do reflect, however, the sincere humility and honesty of a subject who is equally as captivating in a biographical documentary charting her own life as she was over the course of a glittering career. Via Alicia Vikander's softly spoken narration we are very soon on first name terms with one of world cinema's all-time leading ladies. Those looking for a by-the-numbers rundown of Bergman's greatest hits - Casablanca, Joan of Arc, Notorious, Journey to Italy - may rise an eyebrow at the limited time afforded them.

Marni Nixon, the voice behind the stars of such films as West Side Story, The King and I and My Fair Lady, has died. She was 86. Nixon died of breast cancer Sunday in Manhattan, according to The New York Times and other media outlets. Nixon’s film career began in the 1940s, singing the voices of the angels heard by Ingrid Bergman in Joan of Arc. She was Margaret O’Brien’s singing voice in Big City that same year and The Secret Garden in 1949. She went on to what would…...

Marni Nixon, the voice behind the stars of such films as West Side Story, The King and I and My Fair Lady, has died. She was 86. Nixon died of breast cancer Sunday in Manhattan, according to The New York Times and other media outlets. Nixon’s film career began in the 1940s, singing the voices of the angels heard by Ingrid Bergman in Joan of Arc. She was Margaret O’Brien’s singing voice in Big City that same year and The Secret Garden in 1949. She went on to what would…...

Mad doctors! Mortiferous maidens! Horrifying hallucinations! A key early Euro-horror and one of the very first in color, this French-Italian production is a medical horrorshow crossed with a folk tale -- its centerpiece is a vintage carillon attraction in an old mill; creepy Scilla Gabel is the minatory seducer who bridges the gap between life and death. Mill of the Stone Women Region A+B Blu-ray Subkultur / Media Target Distribution GmbH 1960 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 90, 95, 96 min. / Die Mühle der versteinerten Frauen / Street Date June 30, 2016 / Amazon.de Eur 24,99 Starring Pierre Brice, Scilla Gabel, Wolfgang Preiss, Robert Boehme, Dany Carrel Cinematography Pier Ludovico Pavoni Production Designer Arrigo Equini Film Editor Antonietta Zita Original Music Carlo Innocenzi Written by Remigio Del Grosso, Giorgio Ferroni, Ugo Liberatore, Giorgio Stegani from Flemish Stories by Peter Van Weigen (possibly apocryphal) Produced by Giampaolo Bigazzi Directed by Giorgio Ferroni

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

2016 is shaping up as a...

“I’d like to buy a vowel.” That phrase has been a part of pop culture for a while now — “Wheel of Fortune” premiered 41 years ago today. That NBC daytime version of “America’s game” was later followed by the currently airing nighttime syndicated version of the show. The iconic game show was originally hosted by Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford. Jack Clark, Pat Sajak and Vanna White each joined the show in the early 1980s. Other notable January 6 happenings in pop culture history: • 1949: “Gone with the Wind” and “Wizard of Oz” director Victor Fleming died suddenly. Two months later, his “Joan of Arc” starring Ingrid Bergman won two Oscars. • 1957: Elvis Presley performed on “The Ed Sullivan Show” for the third and final time. • 1963: “Oliver!” premiered on Broadway at the Imperial Theater. The musical had had its world premiere in June 1930 in the West End. • 1968: The...

Ingrid Bergman’s oeuvre contains few performances that aren’t of note. Such is her power that, if a tear rolls down her cheek, you feel it. The release of Stig Björkman‘s new documentary Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words has prompted us to look back through the great actress’s filmography.

In our search for the essential Bergman roles, the performances which cemented her as a legend of cinema, there’s certainly a number of dazzling and iconic pictures to search through. Acclaimed examples such as Elena and Her Men, Joan of Arc, and Anastasia — the lattermost of which earned her a second Academy Award — narrowly and tragically found their way off the list.

Before checking out Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words, take a trip with us back through the career of one of the greatest talents to ever grace the silver screen. Enjoy the...

As we launch the Best Cinematography category in our Oscars predictions center, several people have a chance to make history at this year's ceremony. For instance, Emmanuel Lubezki has won the award for the last two years ("Gravity" in 2013, "Birdman" in 2014), and as the cinematographer for "The Revenant" this year he has a chance to go three-for-three, which would make him the first in Oscar history to win in three consecutive years. -Break- Experts' Oscar predictions update: 'Spotlight' pulls further ahead of 'Joy' with 'The Martian' rising fast As it stands, Lubezki is one of only four to have won back-to-back. The others were Leon Shamroy ("Wilson" in 1944, "Leave Her to Heaven" in 1945), Winton Hoch ("Joan of Arc" in 1948, "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" in 1949) and John Toll ("Legends of the Fall" in 1994, "Braveheart" in 1995). It...

Whether you’re all for 3D, or have reserved a special place in hell for those awkward glasses, it would seem that it is here to stay. Long before it turned into the latest service fee added onto the bill of your movie going experience, 3D was a fun (and new) twist for film lovers. And with House of Wax (1953), Warner Bros. created not only the first color major studio 3D film, but one of the finest horror films of the 50’s, period.

Released in April of ’53, House of Wax was a pricey venture (1 million Us to produce), but one that Warner Bros. was willing to bank on after the smash 3D success of Bwana Devil (1952), an independent production. By this point, the major studios were desperate to get people back to the movies, as that new and nasty little box called television halved theatre attendance. What they achieved with...

Ingrid Bergman ca. early 1940s. Ingrid Bergman movies on TCM: From the artificial 'Gaslight' to the magisterial 'Autumn Sonata' Two days ago, Turner Classic Movies' “Summer Under the Stars” series highlighted the film career of Greta Garbo. Today, Aug. 28, '15, TCM is focusing on another Swedish actress, three-time Academy Award winner Ingrid Bergman, who would have turned 100 years old tomorrow. TCM has likely aired most of Bergman's Hollywood films, and at least some of her early Swedish work. As a result, today's only premiere is Fielder Cook's little-seen and little-remembered From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973), about two bored kids (Sally Prager, Johnny Doran) who run away from home and end up at New York City's Metropolitan Museum. Obviously, this is no A Night at the Museum – and that's a major plus. Bergman plays an elderly art lover who takes an interest in them; her...

Groucho Marx in 'Duck Soup.' Groucho Marx movies: 'Duck Soup,' 'The Story of Mankind' and romancing Margaret Dumont on TCM Grouch Marx, the bespectacled, (painted) mustached, cigar-chomping Marx brother, is Turner Classic Movies' “Summer Under the Stars” star today, Aug. 14, '15. Marx Brothers fans will be delighted, as TCM is presenting no less than 11 of their comedies, in addition to a brotherly reunion in the 1957 all-star fantasy The Story of Mankind. Non-Marx Brothers fans should be delighted as well – as long as they're fans of Kay Francis, Thelma Todd, Ann Miller, Lucille Ball, Eve Arden, Allan Jones, affectionate, long-tongued giraffes, and/or that great, scene-stealing dowager, Margaret Dumont. Right now, TCM is showing Robert Florey and Joseph Santley's The Cocoanuts (1929), an early talkie notable as the first movie featuring the four Marx Brothers – Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo. Based on their hit Broadway...

Teresa Wright-Samuel Goldwyn association comes to a nasty end (See preceding post: "Teresa Wright in 'Shadow of a Doubt': Alfred Hitchcock Heroine in His Favorite Film.") Whether or not because she was aware that Enchantment wasn't going to be the hit she needed – or perhaps some other disagreement with Samuel Goldwyn or personal issue with husband Niven Busch – Teresa Wright, claiming illness, refused to go to New York City to promote the film. (Top image: Teresa Wright in a publicity shot for The Men.) Goldwyn had previously announced that Wright, whose contract still had another four and half years to run, was to star in a film version of J.D. Salinger's 1948 short story "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut." Instead, he unceremoniously – and quite publicly – fired her.[1] The Goldwyn organization issued a statement, explaining that besides refusing the assignment to travel to New York to help generate pre-opening publicity for Enchantment,...

By winning the Best Cinematography Oscar for a second year in a row, "Birdman" director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki has joined a truly elite club whose ranks haven't been breached in nearly two decades. Only four other cinematographers have won the prize in two consecutive years. The last time it happened was in 1994 and 1995, when John Toll won for Edward Zwick's "Legends of the Fall" and Mel Gibson's "Braveheart" respectively. Before that you have to go all the way back to the late '40s, when Winton Hoch won in 1948 (Victor Fleming's "Joan of Arc" with Ingrid Bergman) and 1949 (John Ford's western "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon"). Both victories came in the color category, as the Academy awarded prizes separately for black-and-white and color photography from 1939 to 1956. Leon Shamroy also won back-to-back color cinematography Oscars, for Henry King's 1944 Woodrow Wilson biopic "Wilson" and John M. Stahl...

Cinephiles and casual film fans alike will have some familiarity with Ingrid Bergman’s large body of work. The actress is perhaps most widely remembered for her starring role opposite Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, but Bergman’s more than 40-year career is replete with memorable—and award-winning—roles. On the anniversary of her passing, Life has compiled a gallery of Bergman to celebrate her career.

In tracking Bergman’s time in the spotlight, which included three Academy Awards and appearances in films like For Whom the Bell Tolls, Joan of Arc, and Gaslight, Life recalls a 1943 interview with the actress in which she said,...

I really enjoy watching 1950s sci-fi and horror films. When I was growing up I went through a phase where I watched every movie from that era that I could get my hands on. There are a ton of classic movies from that time such as War of the Worlds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Them!, and more. There are still so many other sci-fi movies out there that have been made that I know a lot of people haven't seen or even heard of. To remedy that I came up with a list of ten flicks that I've seen over the years that a lot of you probably haven't heard of. These are all films worth watching if you can find the time. They are best viewed with groups of fiends because even though they are good, they still have plenty of laughable moments.

Let's talk about jilted actresses, boys. 

The Oscars are next Sunday, and we still have plenty of Academy history to reinspect like amateur Clouseaus. Today's cold case: the 10 greatest Best Actress-nominated performances that didn't win an Oscar. Apologies to my other sentimental favorites like Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys, Julie Christie in McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Nicole Kidman in Rabbit Hole, Anne Bancroft in The Graduate, and my darling Elizabeth Hartman in A Patch of Blue because I could only pick 10. Here they are.

10. Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass

Look, I hear you. Natalie Wood: not so inspiring in Rebel Without a Cause; barely survivable in West Side Story. But what she achieves in Splendor in the Grass, is to me, the absolute best kind of melodrama. As heartsick teen Deanie Loomis in this epic adaptation of William Inge's play, Natalie Wood jumps from lustfulness (since she's dating a young,...

Ingrid Bergman, more than anyone else from the golden age of cinema, had a face made for the silvery light of black-and-white movies. The adjectives get overused -- luminescent, radiant -- but watch her in "Casablanca," "Gaslight," "Notorious," or any of her other black-and-white classics, and she really does appear to be lit from within. Maybe it was those Swedish cheekbones. Maybe it was her professed disdain for the heavy makeup worn by other screen goddesses of the era. Maybe it was the heartbreakingly pure smile of the dentist's wife. Or maybe it was some kind of inner flame -- a burning ambition, an iron will, steely courage -- that forged her character and gleamed in her eyes. Whatever it was, Ingrid Bergman -- who died 30 years ago, on August 29, 1982, and who was born on the same day, 67 years earlier -- had an inner glow that emanates from her films even now,...

Wasn't the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences thinking about creating a Hollywood museum? The Academy sent no bidder to Debbie Reynolds' historic costume and prop collection assembled over 50 years, which crowds checked out over the past few weeks at the Paley Media Center until its auction Saturday. It was strange to conjure images of Yul Brynner sitting on the throne from The King and I, Charlton Heston or Ingrid Bergman putting on their armor for Ben Hur or Joan of Arc (pictured below), Gary Cooper putting on his World War I uniform as Sergeant York (below), Julie Andrews strumming her guitar from The Sound of Music, or anyone small enough to slip into Claudette Colbert's Cleopatra gown or Cecil Beaton's My Fair ...

Iconic screen siren Marilyn Monroe was still the toast of Hollywood on Saturday after her iconic white dress from The Seven Year Itch sold for an astonishing $4.6 million (£2.8 million) at auction.

Singin' In The Rain legend Debbie Reynolds put the movie memorabilia she has collected during her career under the hammer in California, and film fans flocked to the sale to try and buy a piece of Hollywood history.

And it was Monroe who was still the big star turn at the sale when her buyers bidded big for her most famous on-screen outfits.

The white dress, which famously blew up as the star stood over a subway grate in the 1955 film, was the biggest money-spinner with a sale of $4.6 million, but her red sequin number from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes sold for $1.2 million (£750,000), while her saloon costume from River of No Return was snapped up for $510,000 (£318,000).

Fellow late Hollywood legend Judy Garland was also a big draw - her blue cotton dress worn in The Wizard of Oz was sold for $910,000 (£568,000).

Other big sales included Charlie Chaplin's bowler hat, Dame Elizabeth Taylor's riding outfit from National Velvet and Ingrid Bergman's Joan of Arc armour.

Saturday was the first of the auctions being held by Reynolds at Profiles in History.

With Thursday's announcement that he'd be putting his Hollywood career "on hold," Arnold Schwarzenegger has left the world to wonder whether there'll ever be another Terminator movie. Certainly plenty of movie stars have weathered scandal in the past, and some have gone on to become even bigger than they were before -- just ask the indestructible Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr. Not everyone's fared so well, though. A look back at Hollywood's history reveals that the town isn't always as forgiving as Schwarzenegger might hope.

The history of career-killing scandal goes at least as far back as the early 1920s, when Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, one of the biggest comedy stars of the day, threw a party where a woman ended up dying of a ruptured stomach. The conjecture was that the 300-pound Arbuckle had raped her and crushed her with his weight. He went through three different trials (and was...

Turner Classic Movies offers up many of the greatest film treats throughout the year, especially during their "festivals" of film, and right now they are running another wonderful treasure that you should really be tuning in for. It's the 31 Days of Oscar, and they are showcasing an amazing selection of films spanning the entire history of the Academy Awards.

Check out all the info below, including a rundown of many of the films being included, and then check out the contest where you can win some really great prizes.

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is getting trivial with its annual 31 Days Of Oscar® festival in February. The 2011 edition of the month-long event will feature more than 340 Academy Award®-nominated and winning movies, scheduled in trivia-inspired marathons. In addition, each night will feature a Best Picture Oscar winner at 10 p.m. (Et).

TCM host Robert Osborne, who is also the official biographer...

Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 14 October 1954

There will probably never be a perfect Joan of Arc on the stage. Each generation watches its performance from a different moment in time; every dramatist brings to her life his own special vision; and the actresses who portray her add yet another layer by their interpretation of Joan's character.

Miss Ingrid Bergman, who is now in London to play Joan in Roberto Rossellini's production of Honegger's opera, "Joan of Arc at the Stake," is an actress who has her own very determined ideas on Joan. Sitting in her suite at the Savoy yesterday, she recalled Maxwell Anderson's play, "Joan of Lorraine," in which she played the part of an actress who kept interrupting the play's rehearsals because of her inability to see Joan's character from the point of view of both the director and the playwright. Though Miss Bergman...