This is the grave of Josef von Sternberg. Born in Vienna in 1894, Jonas Sternberg grew up in a very poor Orthodox Jewish family. In 1897, his father followed many Jews out of Europe to the United States, in his case more for economic reasons...
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This is the grave of Peter Falk. Born in 1927 in The Bronx, Falk grew up in a fairly typical Jewish family of that time. His dad owned a dry.
This is the grave of Janet Gaynor. Born in 1906 in Philadelphia, Laura Gainor grew up around the theater business. Her father was a painter for theater productions in the.
I was never the biggest Lynch fan in the world, but he's obviously a gigantic figure in the history of film and I am sure many of you will have much to say about him. RIP.
This is a great run down of films being released this year, especially good for people who are adults and thus don't care about superhero bullshit. Here's a few: The.
This is the grave of Donald Meek. Born in 1878 in Glasgow, Scotland, Meek spent the first part of his growing up there before the family came to Canada in.
Here is the list of movies I watched this year. And I mean movies. I don't want TV. By and large, I find the modern TV revolution tremendously frustrating. Why do I want to spend 14 hours with half-baked characters that would in fact be...
This is the grave of Teresa Wright, as well as the remains of other good people who left their bodies to the Yale University School of Medicine for research purposes.
This is the grave of John Cassavetes. Born in 1929 in New York, Cassavetes grew up in a Greek family. In fact, they moved back to Greece shortly after his.
CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 95 I have to admit that I am not into what I call "that British shit," by which I mean TV shows and movies about rich English of the past that so appeal to American white...
This is the grave of Spencer Tracy. Born in 1900 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Tracy grew up fairly well off there. His mom came from money and his dad had a.
Brahim Haggiag (center, with arm outstretched) as revolutionary leader Ali La Pointe in a scene from Gillo Pontecorvo's THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1965). Photo courtesy of British Film Institute/Rialto Pictures..