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Stanley Kubrick A filmmaker of international importance, Kubrick was one of the only directors to work within the Studio System and still have full artistic control over his films from scripting through post-production, prompting Time Magazine to compare Kubrick's early independence with the magnitude of Orson Welles.

For those of you who thinks theater shuts down in the summer, never fear. Or maybe fear a lot: War of the Worlds is coming to the Shakespeare Center.

Expect the government to remove the lid soon on a secret it has held religiously more than half a century: Unidentified Flying Objects are real and come from outer space, says a West Virginia author on the verge of releasing his second book on the subject.

With the loss of Arthur C. Clarke and Michael Crichton last year, the survivors of the elite group of twentieth century science fiction authors has dwindled.

Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett werent the only cultural icons to die on the same day, there have been plenty more.

By David Bender "Last week, death came to sit upon the throne of America's Kubla Khan - last week, as it must to all men, death came to Charles Foster Kane."-- Reporter's words on the passing of a fictionalA American icon in "Citizen Kane" It's almost 6:00 AM in Barcelona and I'mA stillA up watching the awakening world's reaction to the sudden, ...

Doc Films opened its summer season last night with Million Dollar Legs , a lunatic Depression-era satire that might test the tolerance of even the giddiest W.C. Fields admirers.

Howard Chaykin's American Flagg! is a series that played an important role in the development of comics in the 1980s.

Heres a poser for you movie buffs: What do the white dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch and the fur coat, muff and hat worn by Orson Welles in Citizen Kane have in common? Beyond their obvious status as movie artifacts, theyre both part of a lawsuit filed in Johnson County by a 40-year-old Olathe businessman, Gregory J.

A filmmaker follows Conrad Black during two of his most tumultuous years in business as he falls from grace and slowly loses his empire.

In the Marin Independent Journal this past Saturday, there was an intriguing article that poses the question of whether filmmaker George Lucas is making a direct copy of Hearst Castle in his design of an elaborate digital film production studio proposed for Lucas Valley.

Actor Peter Sallis's one-man show charts a career acting with the greats of stage, screen and Plasticine, says Peter Elson MOST character actors would give their eye-teeth for a successful series on screen that makes them a household name.

CMT MUSIC AWARDS 2009 a ' It's been a sweet year for Sugarland, and the CMT Awards could be the icing on the cake.

Orson Welles once remarked that composer Bernard Herrmann was "50 per cent responsible" for the success of Citizen Kane.

I'm going to say, at the risk of doing time in the blurbitentiary, that "The Hangover" is the "Citizen Kane" of bachelor party movies.

"I'm a tinkerer by nature," said Jeff Wayne about the upcoming European tour of his Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds, "It's going to be fresh, I just to love keep it fresh.

Classic film screenings continue at the Senator Theatre this weekend with Carol Reed 's magnificent The Third Man , starring Joseph Cotten as a pulp novelist visiting postwar Vienna, where he learns that his good friend, Harry Lime , has died.

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Jeannine Kasper as Sam in "Paper Covers Rock" "PAPER COVERS ROCK" Winner of the jury and audience awards at the Ashland Independent Film Festival , Joe Maggio's drama about a woman's battle with depression and self-destruction is $6,000 well spent.

Well, not quite. In the latest production by Floyd County's maturing Young Actors Co-op, the Fab Four have become a faux four -- a boy band composed of fakers who couldn't twist and shout their way out of a wet paper bag.