Faces News

Ben Gazzara died on Friday, at the age of eighty-one. He's one of the very greatest of film actors; he'll be remembered for just a handful of roles, out of the one hundred thirty-three listed in IMDb, but those are among the very summits of movie history.

The word "gritty" is frequently used to describe films that have hard-hitting, unpleasant, violent, or grim content, from The French Connection to 8mm .

The U.S. National Film Registry on Wednesday named 25 films to be preserved as cultural treasures ranging from the 1942 Walt Disney classic, "Bambi," to the 1991 psychological thriller "The Silence of the Lambs." The film list also includes the Academy Award-winning "Forrest Gump" starring Tom Hanks and the post-war noir film "The Big Heat," set in ... (more)

The Oscar-winning "Forrest Gump," Walt Disney's 1942 classic animated film "Bambi," Charlie Chaplin's first feature-length comedy "The Kid" and a 1912 silent comedy "A Cure for Pokeritis" are among the 25 movies that have been selected to be preserved as cultural, artistic and historical treasures in the National Registry of the Library of ... (more)

NYFF's strongest contribution to Hollywood's 70s filmmaking renaissance was to program a lot of that decade's movies: Faces , Badlands , Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice , and Mean Streets .