The Best Years of Our Lives News

David Lean Honored with the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award in 1990, Lean's body of work demonstrates an obsessive cultivation of craft and a fastidious concern with detail that has become the very definition of quality British cinema.

A group of unique directors and the essential works that you've got to see. Sergio Leone Leone's career is remarkable in its unrelenting attention to both American culture and the American genre film, exploring the mythic America he created with each successive film examining the established characters in greater depth.

Dana Andrews, the most famous movie star to hail from Huntsville, Texas, was born 100 years ago, in 1909.

The best-known film about G.I.'s returning from WWII is doubtless William Wyler's THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES , which won several Oscars, including Best Picture.

The Political Science Junior Fellows and Friends of the Wynne will host a Dana Andrews Film Festival at the Wynne Home Arts Center on Sept.

How many times can they remake a movie? Commander Coconut ENTERTAINMENT June 26, 2009 There are more than 20 versions of Dr.

The Fourth of July, America's Independence Day, used to be a time when people gathered in town squares to hear speakers talk about America, its history and what made the country what it was.

"Westerns are timeless. The soundtracks rarely are." Lileks tweeted that pithy two-liner a few weeks ago, and I've been thinking about it ever since.

Tom Hanks stars as Capt. Miller in Steven Spielberg's 1998 classic detailing the events of the World War II invasion of Normandy on D-Day. Do you know the name of that film? Published: M e morial Day is when we honor those who died in service to their country.

I don't know about you guys, but come Memorial Day it's always World War II that springs to mind.

For those of us old enough to have personal recollection of World War II - and we are a dwindling number - that war will always be the one which comes to mind on the occasion of Memorial Day.

What movie most says \"Memorial Day\" to you? Sir Critic on Cinema Sir Critic on Cinema Sir Critic, alias Eric Robinette, reviews movies - both blockbusters and arty stuff - comments on theaters and opines about everything else cinematic.

Law was the first career goal of Hoagy Carmichael , composer of some of the most memorable ballads to come out of the 1930s and 1940s and a longtime Rancho Mirage resident.