Like Herzog’s opera-loving Fitzcarraldo dragging a 320-ton steamship through the jungles of Peru, Oscar-winning film buff/actress Tilda Swinton and a few followers are now driving – and occasionally dragging – a mobile movie theater across the Highlands of Scotland as part of a quest to bring the “experience of cinema” to Scotland’s smaller villages and ... read more »

Absolutely sublime dancing with Fred Astaire, above, in The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli 1953) and Silk Stockings (Rouben Mamoulian 1957). Equally well matched with Gene Kelly in Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen 1952), Brigadoon (Minnelli 1954), and It’s Always Fair Weather (Kelly & Donen 1955). Two spectacular solo numbers in Party Girl (Nicholas ... read more »

According the U.K. Guardian (via GreenCine Daily): “Anthony Hopkins and Academy Award front-runner Helen Mirren are in talks to star in an upcoming drama about the life of Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock Presents chronicles the obstacles that the celebrated film-maker had to overcome while making Psycho. Mirren would play Hitchcock’s wife and artistic collaborator.” It ... read more »