Richard Attenborough

Jake Eberts dies at 71; film producer for 'Gandhi,' 'Chariots of Fire,' 'Driving Miss Daisy'

2012-09-08 00:00:00

Jake Eberts, the Canadian independent producer and founder of Britain's Goldcrest Films, which revived the British cinema industry in the 1980s with a string of Oscar-winning movies, including "Gandhi" and "Chariots of Fire," died Thursday in Montreal. He...

Friday’s Highlights: 'Who Do You Think You Are?' on NBC

2012-02-02 21:37:44

Will Hollywood ever top its Cinema Class of 1982?

2012-04-19 16:39:08

Movie review: 'Brighton Rock'

2011-08-26 00:00:00

"Brighton Rock" is beautiful and visually accomplished yet numbingly bleak and ultimately unpleasant and unexciting. A certain sordidness is inevitable given the seedy ambience of the celebrated Graham Greene novel (on which the movie is based) about the...

Movie review: 'Went the Day Well?'

2011-10-14 00:00:00

"Went the Day Well?" is the innocent-sounding title of one of the most subversive films to come out of World War II, a British drama that was unsettling in its day and is even more so now. Playing for a week at the New Beverly Cinema in a 35mm...

Saturday's TV Highlights: 'Smooch' on Hallmark

2011-02-04 21:36:13

Martin Baum dies at 86; Hollywood agent represented A-list talent

2010-11-07 00:00:00

Martin Baum, an old-time New York theatrical talent agent who became a veteran voice of experience for the upstart Creative Artists Agency in the late 1970s and who brought to the firm such established star clients as Sidney Poitier and Peter Sellers, has...

A.P. Clark dies at 96; Air Force commander helped lead escape from Nazi POW camp

2010-03-16 00:00:00

Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. A.P. Clark, a World War II veteran who played a key role in the elaborate breakout from a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp that inspired the movie "The Great Escape," has died. He was 96. Clark, a former superintendent of the Air...

Friday's TV Highlights: "The Tyra Show" on KTLA.

2010-05-27 21:35:18

With 'Avatar,' 'District 9' and 'Trek,' Hollywood 2010 is a space odyssey

2010-01-26 16:33:12

Hollywood prop shop helps re-create the past

2010-03-24 16:33:10

Books and movies tell the stories of World Wars I and II

2008-11-09 00:00:00

For a little background on the battles that took place near the Meuse-Argonne, Henri-Chapelle and Sicily-Rome American Military Cemeteries, take a look at these World War I and II books and movies: World War I "All Quiet on the Western Front," written...

Richard Griffiths starred in the Academy Award winning film "Gandhi." He played a British journalist in the film by Richard Attenborough, shown here holding award for best picture and director.

2013-03-29 08:31:13

Downey earned an Oscar nomination for portraying the Hollywood icon for director Richard Attenborough . "I thought it was going to be about becoming ectomorphic and doing all these things to capture him," Downey said. "It became much more about being quiet and still. That's not easy because I'm

2011-10-07 12:18:23

NR; 1:51 running time In mediocrity lies opportunity. The new film version of Graham Greene's 1938 novel "Brighton Rock" isn't very good, but if you haven't yet seen the 1947 film version of Greene's book, do so! It's the right time to do so.

2011-08-25 09:40:04