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It’s Fritz Lang versus CinemaScope, for the first and last time. The format suited to snakes and funerals effectively hamstrings the great filmmaker’s expressive camera direction, yet the movie is one of the best of MGM’s last-gasp ’50s costume dramas. Corrupt smuggler Stewart Granger is redeemed by the faith of a young boy who believes in him; in this story the words “He’s my friend” take on a big significance. Come see director Lang struggle to adapt the wide-wide screen to accommodate his brand of real cinema.

Moonfleet

Blu-ray

Warner Archive Collection

1955 / Color / 2:55 widescreen / 87 min. / Street Date August 13, 2019 / available through the WBshop / 21.99

Starring: Stewart Granger, Jon Whiteley, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindfors, Liliane Montevecchi, Melville Cooper, Sean McClory, Alan Napier, John Hoyt, Donna Corcoran, Jack Elam, Dan Seymour, Ian Wolfe.

Cinematography: Robert H. Planck

Film Editor: Albert Akst

Original Music: Miklos Rozsa

Written by Jan Lustig,...

As awards season takes over Hollywood, keep up with all the ins, outs, and big accolades with our bi-weekly Awards Roundup column.

– Annette Bening will be honored by Museum of the Moving Image at its 31st annual Salute on December 13 in New York. The news was announced by Michael Barker and Ivan L. Lustig, Co-Chairmen of the Museum’s Board of Trustees. The evening will feature cocktails, dinner, and an award presentation, featuring clips from Bening’s career introduced by her friends and colleagues.

Barker said in an official statement, “On screen, stage, and television, Annette Bening is one of America’s finest living actresses. From her Broadway debut in Tina Howe’s ‘Coastal Disturbances’ to her emotionally complex performance last year in ’20th Century Women’ and now as movie star Gloria Grahame in the upcoming ‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool,’ her stunning range as an actress has always been staggering and uncompromising.

Mubi is exclusively showing Billy Wilder and Alexander Esway's Mauvaise Graine a.k.a. Bad Seed (1934) in the United States and most countries around the world from August 18 - September 16, 2016.In light of his illustrious Hollywood career to follow, Billy Wilder’s obscure directorial debut, Mauvaise Graine (1934), may seem like a mere curiosity. Making the film as he was passing through France by way of Germany en route to America, Wilder regarded the work with little adoration. For him, the experience was one rife with difficulty; it wasn’t fun, there was tremendous pressure, and he simply wasn’t accustomed to have such sweeping control over a production. But the writing was on the wall by 1933, and Wilder, like so many others, was keen to get out of Berlin while the getting was good. Arriving first in Paris, he met other film professionals seeking refuge from the burgeoning Nazi party,...

Warren Beatty will soon have yet another feather to add to his cap. The actor, producer, screenwriter and director — who’s already received two Oscars, four Golden Globes and even a Blockbuster Entertainment Award — will be honored with Museum of the Moving Image’s 30th annual Salute on November 2. Michael Barker and Ivan L. Lustig, who serve as co-chairmen of the Museum’s Board of Trustees, announced the news today.

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“Warren Beatty helped invent the new Hollywood with the fresh, distinctly modern sensibility he has brought to his work in front of and behind the camera,” said Barker in a statement. “He makes movies that are bold, provocative, and entertaining, and he has had astonishing and prolonged success as an actor, director, producer, and writer. He has been one of the most beloved...

The Museum of the Moving Image has named Sony Pictures Classics co-chairman Michael Barker as co-chairman of its board of trustees, replacing current co-chairman Herbert Schlosser, who will become chairman emeritus of the New York museum, it was announced Monday. Barker will join remaining co-chairman Ivan L. Lustig. See more Kevin Spacey Honored at Museum of the Moving Image Schlosser, the former NBC president and CEO, served as Museum of the Moving Image chairman from 1985-2013, when he became co-chairman with Lustig. Schlosser told the board a year ago that he intended to retire

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Sony Pictures Classics co-founder and co-president Michael Barker will become co-chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of the Moving Image after Herbert S. Schlosser retires early next year. Schlosser made the announcement on Monday with co-chairman Ivan L. Lustig, who will work with Barker once he begins the position on Feb. 1. Also read: Sony Pictures Classics Buys Nazi Thriller 'Labyrinth of Lies' Schlosser is retiring after 30 years of service to the museum dedicated to film, television and digital media. He was chairman between 1985 and 2013, when he became co-chairman. He announced his retirement last year, and elections...