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7 November 2009 8:45 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

1891 Miriam Cooper silent film star of the Dw Griffith wing of Hollywood (Intolerance, Birth of a Nation)

1903 Dean Jagger Oscar winner for the war drama Twelve O'Clock High. Can't say I've seen that one. Anyone?

1923 Gene Callahan started working in feature films in 1960. He'd won two Oscars for Art Direction (The Hustler and America, America) by April, 1964. Quick study, yes? I imagine he had great stories to tell: his first movie scenery was chewed by none other Liz (BUtterfield 8) and Brando (The Fugitive Kind) and he worked right up until his death, closing a fine career out with those Steel Magnolias and Reese Witherspoon's debut Man in the Moon. If you haven't seen the latter, I recommend. Sweet movie and Reese had full star charisma even at 14.

1943 Joni Mitchell ♫ oh I could drink a case of you, darling... and I'd still be on my feet

1949 Judy Tenuta Buy her gifts, »

- NATHANIEL R

13 April 2009 12:08 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has just released their official list of top 15 most influential classic films of all time, the latest element in the network's 15th anniversary celebration and the launching point for a new feature at TCM.com in which the network says it will post a fresh list of movie favorites each day (although it actually looks like it is only going to be a weekly feature). The feature will be called TCM Dailies and will usually highlight five films, with a constantly changing theme. The lists will run from serious to silly, such as TCM's favorite car-chase movies, best slap scenes and top sequels. Perhaps the most unfortunate thing is that TCM will just be listing the films and not necessarily showing them. This would have been even bigger news had I been able to tell you the 15 films featured will be shown on TCM over »

- Brad Brevet

25 February 2009 5:35 AM, PST | Daily Film Music Blog | See recent Daily Film Music Blog news »

While Carl Davis is best known through his work on British television (Pride and Prejudice) and re-scoring silent films (Napoleon, Intolerance), his last year featured a unique collaboration as he wrote music for the film of her daughter, Hannah Davis. The music for The Understudy won an award at Avignon Film Festival and the picture collected several other awards as well. I've had the chance to listen to this score for quite some time and now with the arrival of a new CD, it's time you got acuainted with the music as well. Instead of going for the obvious choice and aiming my questions at the composer, I decided to ask Hannah about her experiences of working with her father during The Understudy.

Before we talk about the music, could you tell me what was the inspiration to do this picture?

David, my husband, was an understudy twice on London's famous west end. »

3 articles from 2009