One of the great Oscar moments

Last night I saw Edgar G. Ulmer's THE NAKED DAWN (1955) at MoMA in an almost pristine Technicolor print; unbelievably gorgeous. You'll never see it looking better and you have one more chance, Sunday June 28 at 4 pm. moma.org/calendar/events/114…

"The Last Horror Film" (1982) starring Joe Spinell & Caroline Munro was shot Guerilla style without permits while the 34th Cannes Film Festival was going on. They had only one go at most of the scenes. The idea for the movie was conceived when Judd Hamilton and director David Winters were planning on attending the Festival to generate interest in the 'Starcrash' (1978) sequel. The working script of the movie was written in 3 days. Here is what Caroline Munro said about the chaotic shooting: "It was totally chaotic, but very exciting, because we never knew what we were going to get. We only had one go at every scene, so we had to get it right the first time. A lot of the shooting was at night, because many of the premieres were held then. For example, we went to the opening of 'Heaven’s Gate' (1980). Judd and I stepped out of our limousine in front of the real press and had our pictures taken. Our cameramen were set up in the crowd and we went up the stairs behind Kris Kristofferson and director Michael Cimino into the theater, where we watched for five minutes and then had to sneak out to change our costumes and rush to another location. I just hope they didn’t see us leave, because that would have been so rude." ("Caroline Munro: The First Lady of Fantasy", Robert Michael "Bobb" Cotter, 2012 & Caroline Munro's interview to Fangoria Magazine)

The Universal Westerns series continues this weekend @MoMAFilm with two by Robert Aldrich, King Vidor on 35mm, and Douglas Sirk in 3D: thefilmstage.com/nyc-weekend…

'Body Double' begins a new De Palma series @MovingImageNYC tonight: thefilmstage.com/nyc-weekend…

2 great men discuss their contribution to a great movie.

Curiosity isn't unique to humans. This is the moment an orca carefully examines a human baby.

For the next five and a half hours, TCM will be showing Bowery Boys films. You may now cease all other activities.

Father and (1) son, heading to Cape Cod for the summer: Life is (so) Good…

Just remembered this little guy turned 14 today! (Just now, and when I brought him home ) 💕

Our 3-part Rick McCallum interview makes its YouTube debut today as a 3.5 hour supercut! #StarWars #YoungIndy #StarWarsUnderworld youtu.be/TWRyh-MOb6g

Can Eating Avocado Improve Health and Lower Your Risk of Diabetes? healthline.com/health-news/a…

François Truffaut on John Ford and Howard Hawks: Interviewer: "Like many American critics, I'm surprised by your admiration for Howard Hawks and John Ford. Would you explain why you like them?" Truffaut: "Originally, I didn't like Ford—because of his material: for example, the comic secondary characters, the brutality, the male-female relationships typified by the man's slapping the woman on the backside. But eventually I came to understand that he had achieved an absolute uniformity of technical expertise. And his technique is the more admirable for being unobtrusive: His camera is invisible; his staging is perfect; he maintains a smoothness of surface in which no one scene is allowed to become more important than any other. Such mastery is possible only after one has made an enormous number of films. Questions of quality aside, John Ford is the Simenon of directors. Hawks, on the other hand, is the greatest cinematic intelligence among American directors. He isn't a cinema addict, nor is he anguished or obsessed. Rather, he loves life in all its manifestations, and because of this harmony with life in general, he was able to make the two or three greatest examples of every genre of film (except perhaps comedy, in which you have Lubitsch etc.). To be specific: Hawks made the three best Westerns (Red River, The Big Sky, and Rio Bravo), the two best aviation films (Only Angels Have Wings and Air Force), and the three best thrillers (The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, and Scarface)." Interviewer: "M. Truffaut, Hawks' very versatility might be called an indication that he lacks a single vision of life or of cinema. Yet it is precisely that lack which you condemn in your French predecessors." Truffaut: "Hawks does have a vision of life and cinema! For example, he is the first American director to show women as equal to men (think of his handling of Lauren Bacall vis-à-vis Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep). He always knows what he is doing. When he decided to make Scarface, realizing the danger of a film about sordid mobsters, he instructed his scriptwriter, Ben Hecht, to join him in constantly thinking about the history of the Borgias so as to give the film some tragic stature. It is to this that we owe the nearly incestuous love between George Raft and his sister in the film." — François Truffaut, interviewed by Charles Thomas Samuels (September 1970) ⬇️ François Truffaut – John Ford – Howard Hawks.

Nothing is better than being greeted by your dog after school. ❤️❤️

When Should You Say Goodbye to a Pet? newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

I enjoyed Lisa's observations culled from her thoughts about the films, especially about the power to hurt people effectively through words, as she points out George Sanders masterfully did when Anne Baxter's character acted pompously toward his character in All About Eve.

Why Westerns Still Matter: Jason Bailey has a great look at the @MoMAFilm "Universal Westerns" series that's just getting warmed up. 28 films, most screening twice, through July 3 so you have time and choice. (Gift Link) nytimes.com/2026/06/05/movie…

She picks All About Eve, Now Voyager, 12 Angry Men AND The Philadelphia Story, plus she does a nifty George Sanders imitation. By rights Lisa Kudrow should be best friends with more than half of Old Movie Twitter.

The Misfits (1961) | Official Clip | 4K restoration in cinemas now youtu.be/ZbHvL8L687g?si=2bW7… via @YouTube

Isabelle Huppert attended tonight's 35mm screening of Michael Cimino's monumental epic HEAVEN'S GATE at @am_cinematheque in Hollywood. Huppert watched the movie with the sold out crowd and appeared quite moved during her Q&A with @TimGrierson. (1/2)