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The 32 best '50s movies

After World War II, Hollywood studios perfected its formulas

Total Film

The week in theatre: Death of England: Closing Time; Sunset Boulevard – review

The fourth in Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’s state-of-the-nation play series is precise, fierce and moving, while Nicole Scherzinger hammers home the drama as Norma Desmond

The Guardian - UK

20 best film noirs: From The Big Heat to Sunset Boulevard

Rain-streaked streets, femmes fatales, hard-boiled gumshoes and antiheroes fated to die... Graeme Ross presents his pick of the 20 greatest film noirs of the classic era

The Independent UK

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From Some like it Hot to The Apartment: Jack Lemmon’s 10 best films

Whether playing a fastidious housemate, the father of a lost child in Pinochet’s Chile, or a social drinker descending into alcoholism, Lemmon gave enough memorable performances to forge an award-winning career spanning nearly half a century. Graeme Ross picks his favourites

The Independent UK

Jack Lemmon’s 10 best films: From ‘Some like it Hot’ to ‘The Apartment’

Whether playing a fastidious housemate, the father of a lost child in Pinochet’s Chile, or a social drinker descending into alcoholism, Lemmon’s memorable performances allowed him to forge an award-winning career spanning nearly half a century

The Independent UK

Sun, sea and flings: our writers on their favorite summertime movies

From Do the Right Thing to Now and Then, Guardian writers pick the film that reminds them most of the warmest months

The Guardian - US

Walter Mirisch, Oscar-winning producer, dead at 101

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says Oscar winning film producer Walter Mirisch has died at age 101

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Former Academy president and legendary producer Walter Mirisch dies at 101

LOS ANGELES — Walter Mirisch, the last of three Mirisch brothers who produced or oversaw production of a string of highly regarded films in the 1950s and ’60s, including best picture Oscar winners “The Apartment,” “West Side Story” and “In the Heat of the Night,” as well as comedy classics…

Los Angeles Times

Boyhood collides with masculinity in Oscar-nominated 'Close'

Set in the Belgian countryside, Lukas Dhont's “Close” is about a friendship between two 13-year-old boys whose tender intimacy is tested, tragically, when one seeks to fit in with more macho boys

The Independent UK

What links Netflix’s Kaleidoscope to Jonathan Coe and Bryan Cranston?

A chain of connections that starts and finishes with the random-order eight-part crime thriller

The Guardian - UK

Hollywood: The Oral History by Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson review – dinner with the stars

From pancakes with Jack Nicholson to drinks with Billy Wilder – stories from the great and good of Tinseltown

The Guardian - UK

Streaming: the best Marilyn Monroe films

Ahead of Netflix’s biopic of the Hollywood star, what better time to catch up on her deft, joyous screen performances, from Some Like It Hot to The Misfits

The Guardian - UK

The 20 best films set on trains – ranked!

The Railway Children Return is shortly to arrive on UK platforms and Bullet Train speeding down the tracks behind it. Until then – as rail strikes bring stations to a standstill – here are 20 vicarious train trips

The Guardian - UK

20 best film noirs: From Double Indemnity to Shadow of a Doubt

Rain-streaked streets, femmes fatales, hard-boiled gumshoes and antiheroes fated to die... Graeme Ross presents his pick of the 20 greatest film noirs of the classic era

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How the acclaimed Billy Wilder tried and failed to snub Hollywood

The new film Mr Wilder & Me reveals how a search for funding led the director on an uneasy journey back to the central Europe he fled

Salon

Heartbreaking Marilyn Monroe doc moments

A series of conversations recorded by journalist Anthony Summers reveal more about the actor's tragic life

Chicago Tribune

Steven Spielberg is up for another Oscar: We ranked all 33 of his movies, from worst to No. 1 best

Forty-two years ago a little-known, 30-something actor named Steven Spielberg played a Cook County Assessor clerk in “The Blues Brothers.” He had a few lines, such as “Can I help you?” and “Here is your receipt.” His on-screen career came and went so fast you never noticed. But that filmmaking…

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