Carol Reed

On Dec. 30,1853, the United States bought about 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico in a deal known as the Gadsden Purchase. In 1865 author Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, now known as Mumbai. In 1903 about 600 people died when fire broke out at...

The "Dutch angle" (or the "Batman angle," as it is often known in the U.S., for obvious reasons) was first used extensively in German Expressionist cinema -- "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" being a textbook example of the use of extremely odd angles. The...

When attempting to take in the rather shocking news of the death of British-born director, writer and producer Anthony Minghella at age 54, it's tough not to feel in part the passing of a unique creative force that connected audiences to another era. ....

BASIC CABLE "THE THIRD MAN" **** 5 p.m., TCM You don't have to be a fan of zither music to love this 1949 film noir classic, but the haunting theme song to this gripping and resonant thriller from director Carol Reed may turn you into one anyway....

Paris — CROWNED at Cannes one minute only to be buried in Britain the next, Ken Loach's new film, "The Wind That Shakes the Barley," arrives in the U.S. with a rabble-rousing reputation. In May, Loach marched up Cannes' red steps to receive his...

1½ stars (out of four) Forget it, Jake. It's Berlin. Everybody tells this to the foreign correspondent played by George Clooney in "The Good German." But in the city's bombed-out remains following World War II, Jake Geismer cannot forget what Berlin held...

4 stars (out of four) Of all the movies that try to take us into the mind and viewpoint of a child, Carol Reed's 1948 "The Fallen Idol," adapted by Graham Greene from his short story, is one of the most ingenious. Reed and Greene show us the world as...

3½ stars (out of four) Dog and movie lovers, take note: Lassie has come home. Writer-director Charles Sturridge's "Lassie" revives a well-worn, sometimes grand tradition begun in 1938, when Eric Knight's first Lassie story was published. Since then,...

The Festival de Cannes wants to be all things to all people, to be the place for breakout extravaganzas as well as artistic ventures. For this year's 59th edition, both ends of the spectrum have American names attached. It's the sheer size of the thing...

FOR a brief but dazzling three-year period, from 1947 through 1949, Carol Reed was the director to beat in the English-speaking world. Two films of that period, "Odd Man Out" and "The Third Man," have been widely admired, but the third, 1948's "The Fallen...

The Orlando Home Show, scheduled for Sept. 23-25 in Hall B South at the Orange County Convention Center, has lined up a number of celebrities for special appearances this year. They include Michael Payne, host and interior designer of Home and Garden...

The early consensus among critics who've seen Roman Polanski's adaptation of "Oliver Twist" is that it's something of a glossy cop-out. Apparently, these folks expected Polanski to goose Charles Dickens' teeming vision of 19th century England with his...