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Cate Blanchett (Nightmare Alley, Don’t Look Up) has been named as the latest recipient of Film At Lincoln Center’s Chaplin Award.

Death on the Nile (★★☆☆☆) miscalculates from the start, marching into a mystery Christie herself showed no interest in exploring: the origins of Hercule Poirot’s trademark mustache.Director and star Kenneth Branagh, helming his second Christie adaptation following the 2017 hit Murder on the Orient Express, digs into a black-and-white, WWI-set prologue that firmly establishes Belgian sleuth Poirot as the film’s romantic hero.Christie’s sturdy plots and colorful characters certainly invite inventive reinterpretation, but it feels misguided making this or any Poirot story more about the man solving the mystery, than about the mystery that Poirot must solve.The sprightlier 1978 version of Death on the Nile, directed by John Guillermin and scripted by Sleuth playwright Anthony Shaffer, struck a more satisfying balance between the famous detective and the cast of suspects all harboring motives for murder.That whodunnit boasted a lineup of eccentric legends — Bette Davis, Angela Lansbury, Maggie Smith, David Niven, and, of course, Peter Ustinov as Poirot — inhabiting Dame Agatha’s larger-than-life characters while swooning about in Anthony Powell’s Oscar-winning ’30s-era costumes.The result was gloriously camp, as much as it was wickedly intriguing.

Bright Road (1953), Robert Wise’s Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), and 1974’s comedy Uptown Saturday Night, which the actor and singer directed. That film, in particular, is notable for its cast, which includes Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor, Calvin Lockhart, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Bill Cosby.Also on the bill, Robert Altman’s 1996 jazz-noir Kansas City, in which Belafonte plays a gangster named “Seldom Seen.” The film also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, and Steve Buscemi.The channel is also highlighting the innovative independent works of Melvin Van Peebles, a one-man creative force who often starred in, wrote, directed, and composed his films.Of the four entries, the most notable are Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971), in which a Black man outruns white police authorities (the score, by Van Peebles, was performed by Earth, Wind & Fire) and Watermelon Man (1970), a renowned social comedy starring Godfrey Cambridge and Estelle Parsons, in which a white bigot wakes up to find his skin has turned Black.Also on tap: The Harder They Come (1972), featuring reggae artist Jimmy Cliff as a singer who faces down corruption in Jamaica’s music industry.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentOscar voters take their duties seriously and seem to have a few key criteria in voting: Is this work emotionally honest, does it pop off the screen, and is it something that will be admired 50 years from now?Penelope Cruz in “Parallel Mothers” checks all those boxes. There are no guarantees with Oscars, but if there’s justice in the world, she will be nominated Feb. 8.

Clayton Davis The best picture prize is what every studio and filmmaker covets, whether they publicly admit it or not. But, of course, it would help if you had the star power to make it happen. Oscar winners Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett both have proven that they have said star power with the amount of best picture nominees (and winners) they’ve appeared in over their careers.

Clayton Davis Olivia Colman plays Leda in “The Lost Daughter” like a consummate pro, and her portrayal of a college professor on holiday in Greece, who reveals herself to be “an unnatural mother,” is among the most critically acclaimed performances of the year. With a deceivingly open and unpredictable best actress race ahead of us, the Oscar-winner who surprised awards watchers by defeating Glenn Close could add her second lead statuette to her mantle for her complex portrayal.This year’s race for best actress has taken twists and turns.

Sam Adams, a literary agent whose career began in the postwar years at Warner Bros. and ended with the deal to bring The Handmaid’s Tale to the big screen, has died, according to multiple reports. He was 94.

Parkinson at 50 (BBC One) was a bittersweet watch. With his son, the producer, imaginatively called Mike – could an interviewer’s son be called anything else? – Sir Michael, now 86 and finally beginning to show his age, went back over a life and a career that took in more than 600 shows and 2,000 interviews.

Hollywood icons including Cary Grant, Bette Davis and Errol Flynn has gone up for sale. The first edition of the iconic board game was even named Murder at Tudor Close after the former hotel before it sold millions of copies around the world.

Also Read: 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' Hair and Makeup: How Viola Davis Was Inspired by Bette Davis's Classic 'Baby Jane'“Oh, it’s a great category,” he said. “And what’s interesting is that our footprint on ‘Ma Rainey’ is a bit smaller, because it’s mainly just two rooms.

election, then-President-elect Donald Trump broke protocol by leaving his Trump Tower residence without taking along his press contingent to eat at the restaurant.John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway and Frank Sinatra had favorite tables at 21, and Humphrey Bogart proposed to Lauren Bacall there.

Lindsay Blake Is there any moment in movie history more terrifyingly campy than Bette Davis, playing an aged “Baby Jane” Hudson, dressed in an adult-sized little girl’s dress, hair in curls and large bow, maniacally singing “I’ve Written a Letter to Daddy” while staring at herself in the mirror in “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” The infamous 1962 psychological horror film is chock full of similarly disturbing moments, truth be told, all set against the backdrop of a grand mansion said to

Hannah McGill, former director of the Edinburgh Film Festival, is not surprised. She said: “The idea that women lose their visibility to men and their sexual power at 26, or 30 or 40, or that a neck wrinkle is the end of beauty, is overcooked.

The director behind the Oscar-winning drama Call Me By Your Name and the comedy duo behind Pineapple Express are teaming for an Old Hollywood biopic. Luca Guadagnino will helm from a script by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg a movie about Scotty Bowers, the supposed "male madame" to stars like Rock Hudson, Katherine Hepburn and Bette Davis.

Olivia de Havilland was an Oscar-winning actress who played Melanie Hamilton in “Gone With the Wind” and won two Academy Awards for Best Actress.Olivia de Havilland’s legacyDe Havilland was one of the last living memories of Hollywood’s golden age and, until her death, the oldest living Oscar winner. She was the sister of actress Joan Fontaine (1917 – 2013), and they were the only sibling pair in Academy history to win Oscars for leading roles.

Sefton Park.Among the goods being sold on behalf of his estate are signed items from his many showbiz friends including Jackson, Whitney Houston, Dionne Warwick, Al Green, Bette Davis, Jane Russell and John Mills.ECHO columnist John Crane said that it was a privilege to be invited to hold the auction in Liverpool where David Gest had made his home in recent years.

"There has always been pressure on actors to stay thin. There's a scene in one of my favourite movies, 'All About Eve', where Bette Davis is circling around the room, horribly upset about something, and she picks up a chocolate...

Ryan Murphy has a passion for the past — whether it’s revisiting the making of starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford (), chronicling the lives of gay men during the HIV/AIDS crisis (), reexamining the events around the country’s biggest media scandals (), or exposing the masses to the underground world of the 1980s ballroom scene in New York City (). His latest project,, is no different.  

By Pat Saperstein