Henry Fonda

Jane Fonda: The Private Life Of A Public Woman: 600 Pages Of What Feels Like The Whole Story

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 10.29.2011

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Google "Jane Fonda hate site" and you get 10 million results. She's a 73-year-old actress who had her last box office hit thirty years ago. So why is she hated?

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Leaked GOP Screening Series: 10 Movies Helping Republicans Stay Bold, Agressive and Insane

Katie Halper | Posted 10.04.2011

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This is a leaked list of the ten movies the GOP is screening to make sure they stay on the offensive, as they fight for the wealthy and attack middle and working class people.

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10 Black & White Movies for People Who Won't Watch Black & White Movies

John Farr | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Fred MacMurray, ?the Best Years of Our Lives?, The Grapes of Wrath, Academy Awards, Harper Lee, All About Eve, Fredric March, The Apartment, Best Movies by Farr, Rod Steiger, Citizen Kane, Walter Huston, Robert Duvall, Pulitzer Prize, Marilyn Monroe, Black and White, Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin, Jack Lemmon, Duck Soup, Gregory Peck, On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan, American Film Institute, Humphrey Bogart, John Steinbeck, Movie Recommendations, Orson Welles, Movie Suggestions, Billy Wilder, Best Movies on DVD, Best Movies, Casablanca, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, John Huston, Schindler's List, Shirley MacLaine, Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men, William Wyler, The Marx Brothers, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Myrna Loy, Marlon Brando, To Kill a Mockingbird, Bette Davis, Culture News

If I could get all those black and white haters out there to watch just ten titles -- movies that constituted absolutely essential viewing -- which would they be?

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The Truth About My Trip To Hanoi

Jane Fonda | Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: US Military, Uniform Code of Military Justice, Roger Vadim, Vietnam War, Jane Fonda Vietnam, Vietnam, Military Training, American POWs, Donald Duncan, Henry Fonda, World News

It is unconscionable that extremist groups circulate letters which accuse me of horrific things, saying that I am a traitor. These lies have circulated for almost 40 years, continually reopening the wound of the Vietnam War.

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The Greatest Hollywood Director You May Never Have Heard Of

John Farr | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Preston Sturges, Kirk Douglas, Academy Awards, Mary Astor, Margaret Sullavan, Ralph Richardson, Fredric March, Best Movies on DVD, Olivia De Havilland, Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson, Best Movies by Farr, Herbert Marshall, Eleanor Parker, Montgomery Clift, Walter Huston, John Ford, Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, William Wyler, George Cukor, Charlton Heston, Myrna Loy, Vivien Leigh, Dana Andrews, Gregory Peck, Bette Davis, Entertainment News

Which Hollywood director actually made the most great movies? In the Alsace area of Germany, future director William Wyler was born. Here is a sampling of his best movies covering three full decades.

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To Be Or Not a Juror: It Ain't Easy to Be Selected

Michael Russnow | Posted 08.20.2011

It's interesting to be in a group representing so-called peers, which is the whole point of a jury, yet, looking around and listening to conversations, for the most part they're people with whom I have little in common. But maybe that's a good thing.

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Thinking About War and Peace

Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Anna Netrebko, King Vidor, Hitler, Napoleon, War and Peace, Turin, Natasha, Sergei Prokofiev, Valery Gergiev, Norman Rose, Richard Pevear, Rostovs, Metropolitan Opera, Sergei Bondarchuk, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, NBC Opera Theatre, Bulgarian State Opera, Vilcek Foundation, Bolshoi Opera, Kiev, Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Nino Rota, Larissa Volokhonsky, Tolstoy, General Kutuzov, Prague Spring, Andrei Bolkonsky, Moscow, D. W. Griffith, The Crowd, Pierre Bezuhov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Constance Garnett, The Big Parade, Arts News

When I first saw Bondarchuk's "War and Peace," in 1968, in New York, it was presented in two parts and ran six hours. You went in the afternoon, broke for dinner, then came back for the rest. It was stupendous.

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Sidney Lumet: First Among Directors

John Farr | Posted 06.09.2011

Read More: James Mason, Academy Awards, William Holden, Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway, Sean Connery, Best Movies on DVD, Katharine Hepburn, Best Movies by Farr, Best Movies, Rod Steiger, Walter Matthau, Henry Fonda, Sidney Lumet, Peter Finch, Paddy Chayefsky, Jason Robards, Entertainment News

Sidney Lumet was a giant in his field, a director who always sought to make intelligent films that had the ring of truth.

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Christian Bale: So Many Good Parts, but Is There a Part Missing?

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

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Christian Bale strikes me as a complete enigma. Yes, his acting chops are prodigious, but he seems to me to be all technique and no heart; we get buckets of perfectly formed ice, but very little fire.

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Blackberries Off: Ten Essential Movies For Easily Distracted Twenty-Somethings

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, George C. Scott, Digital Media, Francois Truffaut, Bicycle Thieves, Academy Awards, Harper Lee, Eva Marie Saint, All About Eve, Rashomon, Thanksgiving, The 400 Blows, Best Movies by Farr, Akira Kurosawa, Rod Steiger, Brian Dennehy, Robert Duvall, Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times, George Sanders, Theatre, Duck Soup, Gregory Peck, On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Mulligan, Preston Sturges, Matt Richtel, The New York Times, Veronica Lake, Best Movies on DVD, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Vittorio De Sica, Sidney Lumet, Joel Mcrea, 12 Angry Men, Digital Age, The Marx Brothers, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Marlon Brando, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Bette Davis, Entertainment News

What if we only had a month in which to force our young adult offspring to see ten essential movies before they succumbed entirely to short-form digital content? My own personal picks.

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Bisset, De Havilland & Kerr Feted by French Legion & BFI/TCM Festival to Open With Caron Classic

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jill Clayburgh, Penelope Andrew, Charles Laughton, Robert Osborne, Jacqueline Bisset, Bfi, Tcm, Olivia De Havilland, Deborah Kerr, Dennis Hopper, Women Film Critics Circle, TCM Film Festival, Luise Rainer, Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, Josephine Botting, Leslie Caron, Patricia Neal, Roger Ebert, Nick Nolte, Michael Powell, Pedro Almodovar, Arthur Penn, Maureen O'Hara, The British Film Institute, Entertainment News

As late summer transformed into autumn, milestones in classic film, which focused primarily on iconic leading ladies, dominated the news and will be r...

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Missing Mr. Matthau

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Glenda Jackson, Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, Kirk Douglas, Billy Wilder, Best Movies on DVD, Best Movies by Farr, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, Sidney Lumet, Robert Shaw, Jack Lemmon, Don Siegel, Elia Kazan, Gregory Peck, Entertainment News

On the first of this month, Walter Matthau, who left us just a decade ago, would have turned ninety. Ruminating on this unnoted milestone made me consider anew what a unique and gifted screen actor he was.

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Presidential Pictures: Top Movies About The Top Job

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Kirk Douglas, Angela Lansbury, All the President's Men, Stanley Kubrick, Alan J. Pakula, Financial Reform, Peter Sellers, Michelle Williams, Bob Woodward, Jeff Bridges, Primary Colors, Richard Nixon, Carl Bernstein, Kirsten Dunst, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Robards, Joan Allen, Dustin Hoffman, Bill Clinton, Martin Sheen, John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Burt Lancaster, Thirteen/WNET, Barack Obama, Walter Matthau, Henry Fonda, Dr. Strangelove, Sidney Lumet, Gary Oldman, Thirteen Days, Warren Beatty, Kevin Costner, Rod Lurie, Hillary Clinton, Frank Sinatra, Robert Redford, Entertainment News

Given the sheer scale and complexity of the Presidency in modern times, it's no surprise that a host of great films have explored the nature of our country's highest office.

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The Top Father/Son Movie Stars, Bar None

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charlie Sheen, Steven Soderbergh, Glenn Close, Peter Fonda, Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Anthony Quinn, Benicio Del Toro, Stanley Kubrick, Burt Lancaster, Fredric March, Billy Wilder, Jane Fonda, Best Movies on DVD, Best Movies by Farr, Don Cheadle, Vincente Minnelli, Henry Fonda, Ava Gardner, Jeff Bridges, Lon Chaney Jr., Jack Lemmon, Lana Turner, Lloyd Bridges, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas, Entertainment News

With advance apologies to Lloyd and Jeff Bridges, Henry and Peter Fonda, Martin and Charlie Sheen, this special designation belongs to Kirk and Michael Douglas.

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Ten Films For The Coming Weeks

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Graduate, Fred MacMurray, Woody Allen, Thanksgiving, Paul Simon, The Thin Man, The Apartment, Animal House, Diane Keaton, Peter Sellers, Spencer Tracy, Best Movies by Farr, Don Cheadle, Ben Affleck, Father of the Bride Movie, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cary Grant, Burt Reynolds, Alfred Hitchcock, Barbara Stanwyck, Blake Edwards, Boogie Nights, Grace Kelly, Julianne Moore, Matthew McConaughey, Bonnie and Clyde, Jack Lemmon, Jeff Goldblum, Parker Posey, Preston Sturges, Dustin Hoffman, William H. Macy, Elizabeth Taylor, Holiday Shopping, Holiday Season, William Powell, John C. Reilly, It's a Wonderful Life, Holiday Season Commentary, To Catch a Thief, Billy Wilder, Mark Wahlberg, A Christmas Carol, Dazed and Confused, Jon Voight, Parties, Henry Fonda, Mad Men, Midnight Cowboy, Shirley MacLaine, P.T. Anderson, Annie Hall, Richard Linklater, Myrna Loy, Heather Graham, The Love Boat, Entertainment News

Get ready, folks, for the coming blur of forced reunions, work-related functions, and cacophonous Christmas parties.

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They Played Presidents: Who Was Believable? (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 05.25.2011

Whether playing a fictional head of state or a real-life US president, these leading men have found themselves in the role of POTUS--some more convinc...

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A Wistful Champagne Toast to William Powell

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carole Lombard, Screwball Comedy, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Best Movies by Farr, Irene Dunne, Nostalgia, Classic Movies, Hollywood, Henry Fonda, Entertainment News

One of the finest actors and leading men from Hollywood's Golden Age, William Powell was born towards the end of this month way back in 1892. It's unlikely most people under 30 would even recognize his name, which is sad, but also easily remedied.

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For Independence Day, Ten Movies That Scream America

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

As we head into Independence Day weekend, for those who'd like to move beyond the evergreen "Yankee Doodle Dandy", I want to suggest some classic titles that evoke our country's unique character.

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ReThinking 12 Angry Men: On Sotomayor and Empathy in Our Justice System

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Movie Reviews, 12 Angry Men, Sonia Sotomayor, Rethink Reviews, Henry Fonda, Film, Jonathan Kim, Movies, Sidney Lumet, George Lakoff, Entertainment News

It's empathy, the ability to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes, that protects us from the kind of simplistic, closed-minded caricaturing that leads to racism, classism and sexism.

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The Bigger Star By Farr: Bette Davis or Joan Crawford?

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Who was the bigger star -- Bette Davis or Joan Crawford? Maybe reviewing some highlights of their respective careers can help resolve this thorny question.

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The Best City Movies by Farr

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

For those of you who love cities, movies, and by extension, cities in movies, here's a batch of capital DVD titles, and the capitals that inspired them.

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