The Film Forum’s monthlong tribute to United Artists ends Thursday, May 1, on a fittingly high note, with Charles Chaplin’s two finest films, City Lights (1931), with Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherill, Harry Myers and Hank Mann, showing at 1, 4:40 and 8:20, and Modern Times (1936), with Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Chester Conklin Read More
Film Forum’s monthlong tribute to United Artists’ 90th anniversary is nearing its home stretch. On Thursday, April 17, there will be an action-filled double bill of Norman Jewison’s The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), with Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Biff McGuire and Yaphet Kotto (at 1, 5:10 and 9:20), and Jules Dassin’s Read More
The Writers Guild of America and Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner's United Artists Corporation are expected to make an announcement today about an interim agreement that would allow feature film writers to go back to work for the studio. As Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood Daily reports, "This is big. This is BIG!" Rumors Read More
The other evening I saw the anti-corporation documentary The Corporation at Film Forum. As usual, I showed up 20 minutes early, but in that Film Forum way, a long line had already formed outside. I felt like I was waiting for entry to a dance club, fearful I might not make the cut even though, Read More
After June's ugly shuttering of the Shooting Gallery, the outlook for New York's film community got considerably brighter on Aug. 2 with the announcement that United Artists, the film company founded in 1919 by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith and William S. Hart, would be returning to its New York birthplace with Read More
