Erich von Stroheim

The Telluride Film Festival will mix ten new films with an historic Academy exhibition in a new festival venue when it begins later this month. The special programming, which inaugurates a new tradition at Telluride, will unspool in Backlot, a new...

2½ stars (out of four) "Psychopathia Sexualis" is an independent American art film that seems to be masquerading as Victorian-era pornography--and it's not quite as interesting or provocative as that description might make it sound. Writer-director Bret...

When the Oscar nominations come out Tuesday, there are bound to be cries of injustice -- and in many cases, those charges will have merit. Can anyone really defend the exclusion from the Oscar nominee list in various years of movies such as "Some Like...

In "The Intended," Brenda Fricker displays a saving dark humor as a tough ivory trader at a station in a Southeast Asian jungle in 1924. She is a sturdy widow who has taken over for her late husband with a firm hand. A greedy survivor, she maintains an...

Fay Wray, who screamed her way into movie history as the apple of King Kong's eye, has died. She was 96. Wray died Sunday night at her home in New York City, according to Rick McKay, a close friend. No cause of death was reported. "She was fairly active...

(R) Murder interrupts a New West gubernatorial race, in which a doofus is poised to take Colorado down the drain. To call this Bush parody heavy-handed is to commit first-degree understatement. With Maria Bello, Danny Huston, Daryl Hannah, Chris Cooper,...

"American Splendor," an offbeat, independent American movie based on the scruffy life and hard times of underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar, was selected as the best film of 2003 on Jan. 3 by the National Society of Film Critics. Barely nudging out...

55TH ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE TOUR OF LITCHFIELD July 13 - Features selection of historic and architecturally significant homes. Self-guided tour begins at the information booth on the green. Proceeds benefit Connecticut Junior Republic. •10 a.m.-5 p.m....

"The Kid Stays in the Picture," a witty, colorful and poignant account of the life and times of producer Robert Evans, takes its title from a remark made by movie mogul Darryl F. Zanuck. With scant acting experience, Evans had been cast as a matador in...

There are about five people who are going to dig Gus Van Sant's new film -- and, yeah, well, I'm one of them. A tough, vigorous exercise in cinematic form and pure aesthetics, "Gerry" is about two guys, played by Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, who embark...

1. "The Gold Rush" (CHARLES CHAPLIN; 1925) 4 stars The funniest -- and almost the saddest -- silent comedy. Chaplin's little tramp prospects for gold in the Yukon, where he runs afoul of snowy elements and villainy, and shyly woos a dance hall girl...

1. GREED (Erich Von Stroheim; 1925) 4 stars The "reconstructed" version of Von Stroheim's great mutilated social drama -- cut by MGM from eight hours to two -- based on Frank Norris' novel "McTeague." Even in its savagely truncated form, "Greed" has...