The Grifters News

Filled with drama, intrigue and personal vulnerability. With movies like Dangerous Liaisons , The Grifters and The Queen under his belt, you'd think this was a perfect fit for Stephen Frears.

But he produces movies everywhere except L.A., where he has lived for two decades after starting his career in Toronto.

The more movies you see about con artists , the harder it should be for the next one to fool you.

Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s: The Killer Inside Me / The Talented Mr.

Filmmakers wound up their first week of shooting "The Killer Inside Me" in Guthrie last weekend with stars Casey Affleck and Kate Hudson.

Bloom , left, is tiring of the work he does with brother Stephen . The Brothers Bloom is a dark "big con" comedy in The Grifters tradition.

In the 40 years since Stephen Frears fell into filmmaking -- "it wasn't my masterplan" -- the twice Oscar-nominated veteran director has defied genre to direct a clutch of movies that inspire a special kind of devotion from audiences.

Director Stephen Frears knows how to show crooks meting out their own brand of justice - hence our permanent inability to ever look at oranges quite the same way after "The Grifters." But Frears also gave us "The Queen." It's hardly surprising, then, to see him and his cast handle the threat of imminent mob retribution with the sort of unflashy ...

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By STEPHANIE ALLMON Julie Hewett made her mark on Hollywood with red lipstick.When the Los Angeles makeup artist was tapped to design makeup for the 2001 film Pearl Harbor , she decided to create a line of long-lasting red lipsticks for the women in the film and to make the cases look like mini-torpedoes. Hewett's cosmetics line was born, and she ...

I like a writer who defies real comparison with anyone else in their genre. The closest to Jim Thompson would be Dostoyevsky, I think, except Thompson is far bleaker, far more negative about human nature.

It's an indelible film image, that of Angelica Huston's tough-gal character in "The Grifters" trembling as she talks of being beaten with a bag of oranges.

Scenes of a major motion picture starring Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba and Casey Affleck will be filmed in Tulsa.

The Oklahoma Film and Music Office, along with Killer Inside Me Productions LLC in conjunction with Muse Productions, Los Angeles and Revolution Films, London, U.K., recently announced that a new movie project ...

Two minds are better than one. Unless, of course, they both belong to the same filmmaker -- who can't quite decide what kind of movie he wants to make.

The Independent Spirit award is supposed to salute what past ceremony host Samuel L. Jackson once called "the strange, the weird, the eclectic, the visionary, the new blood." Ideally, its purpose is to help ...

The Churchill Arts Council will continue its neo-noir film series with a screening of the classic 1981 film, 'Body Heat,' on Thursday at 7 p.m. Tickets are $7 for CAC members and $10 for nonmembers and will be ...

Stephen Frears Vital stats Name: Stephen Frears Film in Berlin: "Cheri" In Competition Date of birth: June 20, 1941 Nationality: British Filmography: "My Beautiful Laundrette," "Dangerous Liaisons," "The Hi-Lo ...

It's hard to remember a death so universally mourned throughout the mystery community than that of Donald E. Westlake , who suffered a fatal heart attack on his way to a New Year's Eve party during a vacation ...

Suspects in a Murder Mystery Weekend staged at the Mohonk Mountain House in New York in 1987.A Left to right: David Morrell, creator of Rambo, prolific novelist Don Westlake, novelist Justin Scott, Playboy ...