Classic Cinema Zone

In an effort to capitalize on its already healthy home entertainment business, Warner Bros. has partnered with The Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. Family Trust to license a total of 74 films produced by the legendary producer, and distribute them on DVD and Blu-ray all across North America. … Read Full Post

Director John Ford ‘s brilliant adaptation of John Steinbeck’s immortal Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath , is finally making the transfer to Blu-ray. The film starred Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, a former convict imprisoned for manslaughter who returns home to Oklahoma to find his family packing up to leave the Dust Bowl for the promised land of California. With indefatigable determination, Joad leads his family through the poverty and misery of dispirited farmers looking to escape the Great Depression and start anew regardless of what awaits them on the other side. … Read Full Post

It may have taken 71 years, but the Hearst family appears to have finally forgiven Orson Welles for drawing uncomfortable comparisons between newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst and fictional character Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane , often considered the greatest movie ever made. … Read Full Post

It’s just a modest, 7,000-foot Bel Air estate where classic movie legend Elizabeth Taylor lived for 30 years, entertaining family and friends at the holidays. … Read Full Post

The third member of a four-generation family of actors with the same name, he was one of the most popular stars of his generation, but died much too young.

This biography offers an intimate view of a star’s private and public life. Included are exclusive interviews with family, friends, and professional associates, and snippets from the Ford family collection of diaries, letters, audiotapes, unpublished interviews, and rare candid photos.

Leni (Hannelore Hoger) inherits the circus owned by her family after the accidental death of her father, only to discover that the organization’s traditional brands of showmanship have grown untimely and unpopular in this striking example of the New German Cinema movement by Alexander Kluge.

With a foreword by Hitchcock’s daughter, Patricia Hitchcock O’Connell, this new film book is packed with photographs from the family’s archive, many of which have never been published before.

The rakishly handsome movie star Tony Curtis , who rose from humble beginnings in a poor  immigrant family to become a major classic movie star and screen heartthrob, has died in Las Vegas at age 85. … Read Full Post

As Scott Eyman brilliantly demonstrates in his new biography, which draws on a massive cache of DeMille family papers not available to previous biographers, DeMille was much more than his clichéd image.