Arthur Hiller

Around Town: Marvel legend Stan Lee hosts 'Avengers' screening

2012-05-03 16:37:49

<![CDATA[Around Town: Marvel legend Stan Lee hosts 'Avengers' screening]]>

Around Town: Foreign films and Spencer Tracy

2012-01-12 16:36:48

<![CDATA[Around Town: Foreign films and Spencer Tracy]]>

Boris Karloff, a monster talent remembered

2010-08-30 16:33:56

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'Inglourious Basterds,' 'Pulp Fiction' and Quentin Tarantino too at the Egyptian

2010-02-04 00:00:00

Iconoclastic filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, hot off earning Oscar nominations Tuesday for best director and original screenplay for "Inglourious Basterds," will discuss his career with Variety critic Todd McCarthy on Monday at the American Cinematheque's...

Stage Fright

2009-01-30 14:23:33

During the 65th Academy Awards in 1993, which I produced, we had a wonderful performance of Alan Menken and Tim Rice�s �A Whole New World,� which was from the Disney film Aladdin and nominated for an Oscar. Debbie Allen choreographed 35 dancers, along...

Man the Maker: Gene Wilder, Wes Craven and other scary stuff

2011-10-18 14:30:00

Comic actor and author Gene Wilder, of the Harpo-esque hair and large liquid eyes, is a resident of Stamford and a patron of the Avon; he'll be on hand for Q&A and to present one of the biggest box office successes of his career, a film that paired him...

Un juez estadounidense congela los activos de los hijos de Madoff

2009-04-01 00:00:00

Getting the vote out for 'Bobby'

2007-01-13 00:00:00

For a movie that has grossed only $11 million, been panned by half the nation's film critics and is now almost gone from the local megaplexes, one might think that "Bobby" faces an insurmountable climb if it is to capture Academy Awards attention. But...

A golden touch, an iron will

2003-03-16 00:00:00

It's a late afternoon in February, and Gil Cates has a pregnant actress on his mind. Inside the production offices for the 75th annual Academy Awards, with the show less than a month away, every detail -- no matter how intimate, obvious or...

'An Alan Smithee Film

1998-02-26 00:00:00

Friday February 27, 1998 ��"An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn" tells of a director who incinerates his own work because he didn't want to inflict another terrible movie on the world. Too bad he didn't get his hands on this one. ��Actually,...

The Out-of-Towners

1999-04-01 00:00:00

Friday April 2, 1999 ��"The Out-of-Towners" teams Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn as an attractive baby-boomer couple from Ohio who fly off to Manhattan for the husband's interview at a top ad agency only to be plunged into a nightmare of foul-ups. If...

The Next Best Thing

2000-03-02 00:00:00

Friday March 3, 2000 ��Trying to cheer up gay best pal Robert (Rupert Everett) after the AIDS-related deathof one of his friends, Abbie (Madonna) takes a kitchen moment in "The Next Best Thing" to say she knows just what she wants in the way of...

Eli Wallach's Ben Harris works to extricate a woman from a hole in the floor in "The Tiger Makes Out."

2010-11-04 11:19:22

Oscar's 75th birthday Former and present Academy of Motion Picture Science Arts and Sciences presidents blow out the candles on top the 75th anniversary cake at the Center of Motion Picture Study in Beverly Hills, Calif., on May 8.

2002-05-09 05:43:57