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No More Wire Hangers Ever! Faye Dunaway in MOMMIE DEAREST Playing May 24th at the Landmark Theatre’s Plaza Frontenac – RetroREPLAY ‘May is For Mothers’

“You are a lousy substitute for someone who really cares.”

Landmark’s The Plaza Frontenac Theatre (210 Plaza Frontenac, in the Plaza Frontenac Shopping Center, Frontenac, MO, 63131) hosts RetroREPLAY Tuesdays. Tickets are only $7 and can be purchased in advance HERE. The RetroREPLAY for May 24th is Faye Dunaway in MOMMIE DEAREST . Showtimes ar 1pm and 7pm

The relationship between Christina Crawford and her adoptive mother Joan Crawford is presented from Christina’s view. Unable to bear children, Joan, in 1940, was denied children through regular adoption agencies due to her twice divorced status and being a single working person. Her lover at the time, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lawyer Greg Savitt, was able to go through a brokerage to adopt a baby girl, who would be Christina, the first of Joan’s four adoptive children. Joan believes that her own difficult upbringing has made her a stronger person, and decides that, while providing the comforts that a successful Hollywood actress can afford, she will not coddle Christina or her other children, she treating Christina more as a competitor than a daughter. Joan’s treatment of Christina is often passive-aggressive, fueled both by the highs and lows of her career, the narcissism that goes along with being an actress, and alcohol abuse especially during the low times. However, Joan sees much of her actions toward Christina as Christina purposefully provoking her. Despite the physical and emotional abuse Joan hurls at Christina over the course of their relationship, Christina, who often wonders why Joan adopted her seeing as to the abuse, seemingly still wants her mother’s love right until the very bitter end

Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty in BONNIE AND CLYDE Screening at The Wildey Theater in Edwardsville Tuesday May 17th

“This here’s Miss Bonnie Parker. I’m Clyde Barrow. We rob banks.”

Nothing’s more fun than The Wildey’s Tuesday Night Film Series. Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty in BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967) will be on the big screen when it plays at The Wildey Theater in Edwardsville, IL (252 N Main St, Edwardsville, IL 62025) at 7:00pm Tuesday May 17th. Tickets are only $3  Tickets available starting at 3pm day of movie at Wildey Theatre ticket office.  Cash or check only. (cash, credit cards accepted for concessions)  Lobby opens at 6pm.

Faye Dunaway is Bonnie Parker and Warren Beatty is Clyde Barrow in Arthur Penn’s violent, sexually charged and deeply influential crime drama, a nostalgic look back at notorious outlaws filmed with the passion and zeal of filmmakers who were beginning to explore the boundaries of their craft. With a legendary screenplay by writers Robert Bentonand David Newman, Bonnie and Clyde features supporting performances by an exemplary cast that includes Gene Wilder, Gene Hackman, Michael J. Pollard and Estelle Parsons and became a pop-culture sensation. A movie about legends that became a legend itself, Bonnie and Clyde made international superstars out of its cast and influenced generations of filmmakers and audiences.

I’m Mad as Hell So I’m Going to See Faye Dunaway and Peter Finch in NETWORK at The Wildey Theater in Edwardsville Tuesday November 16th!

“You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: “I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!”

Nothing’s more fun than The Wildey’s Tuesday Night Film Series. Faye Dunaway and Peter Finch in NETWORK (1976) will be on the big screen when it plays at The Wildey Theater in Edwardsville, IL (252 N Main St, Edwardsville, IL 62025) at 7:00pm Tuesday November 16th  Tickets are only $3  Tickets available starting at 3pm day of movie at Wildey Theatre ticket office.  Cash or check only. (cash, credit cards accepted for concessions)  Lobby opens at 6pm.

In the 1970s, terrorist violence is the stuff of networks’ nightly news programming and the corporate structure of the UBS Television Network is changing. Meanwhile, Howard Beale, the aging UBS news anchor, has lost his once strong ratings share and so the network fires him. Beale reacts in an unexpected way. We then see how this affects the fortunes of Beale, his coworkers (Max Schumacher and Diana Christensen), and the network

BONNIE AND CLYDE Returns to Theaters Nationwide August 13th and 16th


“This here’s Miss Bonnie Parker. I’m Clyde Barrow. We rob banks.”


Fifty years ago, Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde made Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway into genuine superstars, building on the tale of a real-life crime spree that had enthralled America in the 1920s. Bonnie and Clyde smashed through almost every cinematic taboo, combining violence, sex, romance, action and comedy in groundbreaking ways.


On August 13, 50 years to the day from its original theatrical release, Bonnie and Clyde returns to theaters nationwide, presented by Fathom Events and the TCM Big Screen Classics Series.  Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Bonnie and Clyde won two Oscars and presaged a cultural obsession with public notoriety at any price.


Bonnie and Clyde will play in more than 600 theaters nationwide on Sunday, August 13, and Wednesday, August 16, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. each day.

For theater information, go to the Fathom Events site HERE

TCM Primetime host Ben Mankiewicz will offer newly produced commentary before and after the film — a movie whose legacy paved the way for films like Natural Born Killers, The Fast and the Furious and Baby Driver.


Its initial release, on Aug. 13, 1967, set off shock waves.  In his original review, Roger Ebert called Bonnie and Clyde “the definitive film of the 1960s, showing with sadness, humor and unforgiving detail what one society had become.”  The film’s poster showed the eponymous couple in the throes of death — a death that cemented their celebrity status.  And if there’s anything Bonnie and Clyde, as embodied by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty, truly hope for, it’s notoriety — to become known for their violent exploits.


Though it was made 50 years ago — and was itself a tale that had taken place 30 years prior to that — Bonnie and Clyde remains not just a great American film but also one that shows the seeds of our current cultural obsessions.  Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow would be even more at home, perhaps, in a society that glamorizes fast cars, violent lifestyles and celebrity status.  (It’s not hard to imagine the title duo Instagramming their every moment or broadcasting a robbery on Facebook Live).

INCONCEIVABLE Starring Nicolas Cage and Faye Dunaway Arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD August 29th


Academy Award winners Nicolas Cage and Faye Dunaway star in the nail-biting thriller INCONCEIVABLE, arriving on Blu-ray (plus Digital HD), DVD, and Digital HD August 29 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. The film is currently available On Demand.


Deception hits home when the nail-biting thriller Inconceivable arrives on Blu-ray (plus Digital HD), DVD, and Digital HD August 29 from Lionsgate. The film is currently available On Demand. Academy Award® winners Nicolas Cage (Best Actor, Leaving Las Vegas, 1995) and Faye Dunaway (Best Actress, Network, 1977) star alongside Gina Gershon as a family that takes a young woman and her daughter into their home only to find that she may not be who she seems. From the producers of Heist, Lone Survivor, and 2 Guns, the Inconceivable Blu-ray and DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $24.99 and $19.98, respectively.


A family befriends a struggling single mother and invites her into their home to be their nanny, and – eventually – their surrogate mother. But soon, strange behavior begins to surface and they realize that things are not what they seem, and that the woman they’ve entrusted their lives to may have other intentions.

BLU-RAY/DVD/DIGITAL HD SPECIAL FEATURES

  • Commentary with Filmmaker Jonathan Baker
  • “Behind the Scenes of Inconceivable” Featurette
  • Deleted Scene
  • Cast/Crew Interviews

CAST

Gina Gershon                          Face/Off, Bound, P.S. I Love You

Faye Dunaway                       Network, Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown

Nicolas Cage                           National Treasure franchise, Leaving Las Vegas

Nicky Whelan                          The Wedding Ringer, Hall Pass

Natalie Eva Marie                     TV’s “Total Divas” and “WWE Smackdown!”

Forget it, Jake. It’s CHINATOWN at The Tivoli Wednesday Night – ‘Classics in the Loop’


“You’re a very nosy fellow, kitty cat. Huh? You know what happens to nosy fellows? Huh? No? Wanna guess? Huh? No? Okay. They lose their noses!”


CHINATOWN screens Wednesday May 17th at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar in ‘The Loop’) as part of their  ‘Classics in the Loop’ Crime & Noir film series. The movie starts at 7pm and admission is $7. It will be on The Tivoli’s big screen.


CHINATOWN (1974) is a seminal classic of ’70s cinema, with Jack Nicholson excellent as Jake Gittes, a mostly-ethical former cop-turned-private detective in 1930s Los Angeles who believes he’s been hired by the wife of the chief engineer of the Water and Power Department. He thinks her husband’s cheating on her but, as it turns out, she’s not the real Mrs. at all, and so propels Gittes into a tug-of-war between powerful ex-partners, with carnality and family secrets the key to unraveling the mystery. The Oscar-winning screenplay by Robert Towne is filled with complicated story threads and characters with checkered pasts–lots of fun, though it is somewhat unfair the script is always two steps ahead of the audience. However, CHINATOWN is so deftly orchestrated by director Roman Polanski, one becomes engrossed in the proceedings even while being bombarded with both clues and extraneous matter. Faye Dunaway’s performance, as the breathy, mysterious daughter of water-czar John Huston, walks a fine line between melodramatic and campy–still, she’s entirely in the spirit of the piece, and an interesting screen-match for Nicholson.


CHINATOWN is assured and entertaining; it pulls the viewer in without giving out enough information, though this lack of knowledge for our sake doesn’t hurt the returns. A cannier, guessing-game approach to the plot may have made the film more commercial (it was a modest box-office hit); however, this presentation, messy though it may be, is still absorbing.


Experiencing older Hollywood films like CHINATOWN on the big screen is like visiting a fine art museum – masters at work creating a living work of art that time only enhances in respect. A big thanks and shout-out to the Tivoli for this wonderful ‘Classics on the Loop’ series which ends next week with BLOOD SIMPLE. Attendance has been good, so keep your fingers crossed that they announce a new line-up of classics for the Fall.

Here’s the rest of the line-up for the ‘CLASSICS IN THE LOOP’ film series:
May 24th – BLOOD SIMPLE – 1984

Look for continued coverage of the ‘CLASSICS IN THE LOOP’ film series here at We Are movie Geeks.

Official 64th Festival de Cannes Poster

This photo of Faye Dunaway was taken by Jerry Schatzberg in 1970.

Model of sophistication and timeless elegance, it is an embodiment of the cinematic dream that the Festival de Cannes seeks to maintain.

Jerry Schatzberg is a filmmaker from New York who won the Palme d’Or in 1973 for Scarecrow. He began his career as a photographer and his work is quickly noticed, in particular a series of Bob Dylan photos from the 60s which ultimately are used on the cover of the legendary album Blonde on Blonde. In the early 70s Schatzberg turns to filmmaking and his first film, Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970), reveals an exceptional sense of framing and lighting for a first-timer. Panic In Needle Park (1971) with newcomer Al Pacino and Scarecrow follow and are both award-winners in Cannes.

Puzzle of a Downfall Child, in which Faye Dunaway has the starring role, has been restored by Universal Pictures. Rarely seen on the big screen the film will be distributed in France by Carlotta in the fall and the restored print will be screened in Cannes in the presence of the director and his actress.

The poster was produced by the H5 design agency, which is also providing the graphics for the 2011 Festival.

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, the new film by Woody Allen will open the Festival de Cannes on May 11th in the LumièreTheatre, in the presence of the Jury presided by Robert De Niro.

The 64th Festival de Cannes is to take place Wednesday May 11th to Sunday 22nd May 2011.