by Sean Axmaker | Jan 29, 2016 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Why isn’t Richard Lester more celebrated? An American who made his home in England, Lester earned an Oscar nomination for The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959), a lark he made with Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan and others, made his reputation...
by Danny Miller | Mar 2, 2015 | Features, What's Hot
Fifty years ago today, on March 2, 1965, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music had its gala world premiere at the Rivoli Theater in New York. All the stars of the film were there along with Richard Rodgers, Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein (“I know Oscar would...
by Don Kaye | Oct 28, 2013 | Home Viewing, Staff Picks
“Hill House had stood for 90 years, and might stand for 90 more…” British actor Richard Johnson intoned those words 50 years ago in the opening shot of Robert Wise’s 1963 The Haunting, which itself remains standing as the greatest haunted house film ever made and one...