Emil Jannings

Monday's TV Highlights: '20/20' on Fox

2011-11-13 21:36:29

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'A Better Life's' Demian Bichir: Time for his moment in Oscar spotlight

2011-11-17 16:36:28

<![CDATA['A Better Life's' Demian Bichir: Time for his moment in Oscar spotlight]]>

From the Vaults: 'Anna Boleyn' (1920)

2010-08-27 16:33:09

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Matt Weinstock, Dec. 17, 1959

2009-12-17 16:32:48

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Oscars have always welcomed the world

2010-03-10 16:33:19

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A Mankiewicz view of Hollywood -- a real insider tells all

2012-10-26 01:15:14

"ALL YOU need for a movie is a gun and a girl," said French director Jean-Luc Godard. SOMETIMES someone gives you a book that just blows your mind, and you know you'd have missed something great without reading it. A longtime friend of mine, the...

Film: 'The Blue Angel' and 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch'

2011-08-29 11:24:00

She was a glam queen when it still mattered: Marlene Dietrich was born 110 years ago this year and The Criterion in New Haven will be offering a tribute to her in the Movies and Mimosas series each weekend in September, beginning Sept. 3 and 4 at 11:30 a....

TODAY IN HISTORY

2011-05-16 01:30:26

1910: The U.S Bureau of Mines was established. (It ceased operations in 1996, its functions having been transferred to other agencies.) 1929: The first Academy Awards were presented. The movie ''Wings'' won ''best production,'' while Emil Jannings and...

Telluride provides lofty Oscar peeks

2008-09-02 00:00:00

With the triple whammy of the Venice, Telluride and Toronto film festivals, the awards season has kicked into high gear. Following it all is the Notes on a Season column, which returns on a regular basis to track the progress of the awards contenders to...

Reunion for a gold man group

2003-01-28 00:00:00

If anybody knows the whereabouts of the Oscar statuette for "Wings," the first film to win the best picture honor back on Feb. 17, 1929, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences would love to hear from you. The academy wanted the early Oscar for...

PLANNER OUR CRITICS' CHOICES

2001-09-30 00:00:00

MOVIES `THE BLUE ANGEL' A newly restored version of one of the great classics of movie eroticism is now at the Music Box: Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings 1930's "The Blue Angel." Jannings was regarded as the best film actor of his day when he...

Fall Films: The Devil And Mr. Godard

2002-09-18 00:00:00

Film fans, prepare for a busy, gratifying fall. In addition to the spate of remakes, sequels and prequels at the cineplex, the art-house calendar might as well be wrapped in a celluloid ribbon. Dates have yet to be finalized in most cases, but there are...

, among many others, and this new PBS program looks at their influence on American cinema, as well as their struggles to work in Hollywood. Our friends in the Bay Area get to watch it Jan. 1.

2008-12-31 16:02:40

Emil Jannings with the first-ever Best Actor Oscar-1929. Jannings received the Oscar for his performance in the 1928 silent film "The Last Command". Courtesy of Academy of Motion Picture and Sciences, April 11, 1996.

2005-10-21 17:33:59