Ball of Fire News

Little Italy and Chinatown Merchants Associations are sponsoring a parade from Mulberry to Mott Street, featuring marching bands, martial artists and acrobats, Italian American singers and Lion and Dragon Dance troupes.

Dir. Howard Hawks . The great Barbara Stanwyck is, if possible, even more marvelous than usual as a brassy nightclub entertainer recruited by seven prissy professors to help in the writing of a dictionary of slang in Hawks's first-rate comedy, based on a sparkling Billy Wilder script, a sly variation on Snow White .

The reference books call Samuel Goldwyn a producer, but "mogul" or "tycoon" may be more to the point.

Clark Art held several film series for their summer exhibitions this year, and donated all the DVDs to the David & Joyce Milne Public Library.

"Ball of Fire" "Petite Laitue" "Rockin' Chair" "I Want a Little Girl" "M & R Blues" September 25, 2009 - Trumpeter, composer and singer Roy "Little Jazz" Eldridge was one of the most exciting musicians to emerge from the Swing era.

This weather has me feeling a little gloomy , but what better way to kick a funk than a movie by the pluckiest of plucky Golden Age actors: Barbara Stanwyck.

This weather has me feeling a little gloomy , but what better way to kick a funk than a movie by the pluckiest of plucky Golden Age actors: Barbara Stanwyck.

Wherein our movie critic periodically shares what DVDs he's been viewing in his spare time ... "Near Dark" : Bigelow's Texas vampire road movie holds up well, with its wily humor and sun-baked vampire lore forging a tangy twist on a hoary genre.

The "An Artist in Her Own Right: Barbara Stanwyck and the Modern American Woman" film series at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute surveys the best of Stanwyck's groundbreaking work, which according to film scholar David Thomson, reveals the most "credible portrait in cinema of a worldly, attractive, and independent woman in a man's ...

For the week of Sunday, June 14, through Saturday, June 20. Great Directors. The auteurs keep on coming as Turner Classic Movies continues its June salute to legendary filmmakers.