Leonard Maltin

The Academy Wishes Gene Kelly A Happy 100th Birthday

Debra Levine | Posted 05.21.2012

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A parade of Technicolor-tinged dance sequences enchanted a full house at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater Thursday night. "A Centennial Tribute to Gene Kel...

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The 11 Best Films You May Have Missed In 2011

Leonard Maltin | Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: The Guard, The Woman on the 6th Floor, Incendies, Leonard Maltin, Submarine, Of Gods and Men, Indie Movies, Higher Ground, Movies, Cinema, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, Wwii, Indie Cinema, Sarah's Key, City of Life and Death, Higher Ground Movie, Win Win, Terri, Arts News

If you're a discerning moviegoer who lives in a community with a specialty theater (or art house, as we used to call them), you may have seen some of the titles on my list. But there are some smaller, more offbeat pictures, that fly under the radar of even avid film buffs.

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The 11 Best Films You May Have Missed In 2011

Leonard Maltin | Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: The Guard, The Woman on the 6th Floor, Incendies, Leonard Maltin, Submarine, Of Gods and Men, Indie Movies, Higher Ground, Movies, Cinema, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, Wwii, Indie Cinema, Sarah's Key, City of Life and Death, Higher Ground Movie, Win Win, Terri, Arts News

If you're a discerning moviegoer who lives in a community with a specialty theater (or art house, as we used to call them), you may have seen some of the titles on my list. But there are some smaller, more offbeat pictures, that fly under the radar of even avid film buffs.

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5 Must-See Indie Movies

Leonard Maltin | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Jane Eyre, Films, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Queen to Play, Win Win, Dvd, Higher Ground, Brighton Rock, Movies, Leonard Maltin, Film, Arts News

Labor Day weekend marks the end of summer, and a traditionally fallow period for good movies as studios and distributors dump a lot of crummy movies ...

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5 Must-See Indie Films

Leonard Maltin | Posted 07.05.2011

In theaters this month is a pair of amusing documentaries, an Oscar nominee, and the latest drama from a world-class filmmaker. Any time there are five pictures this good playing on theater screens, I take heart.

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PHOTOS: Preview The 25th Annual 'Last Remaining Seats' Film Fest

The Huffington Post | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, King Kong, Revival Films, Orpheum, LA Conservancy, Film-Screening, Leonard Maltin, Last Remaining Seats, Los Angeles Theater, Los Angeles Conservancy, Los Angeles News

This summer marks the 25th anniversary of the Los Angeles Conservancy's Last Remaining Seats Film Festival, with seven revival screenings in Downtown'...

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5 Must-See Indie Films

Leonard Maltin | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: The-Father-of-My-Children, Win Win, Film, Waste Land, In a Better World, I Love You Phillip Morris, Thomas Anders Jensen, Lucy Walker, Vik Muniz, Best Foreign Film, Mia Hansen-LøVe, Jim Carrey, Tom Mccarthy, Susanne Bier, Oscars, Leonard Maltin, Hollywood, Arts News

By Leonard Maltin With so much mediocrity on display at the multiplex, it's cause for celebration when terrific new movies from two world-class filmm...

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WATCH: Mike Tyson's Oscar Picks Include 'Avatar,' The 'Friendster' Movie

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mike Tyson Leonard Maltin, Mike Tyson Oscar Picks, Mike Tyson, Video, Mike Tyson Funny or Die, Funny or Die, Entertainment, Mike Tyson Oscars, Oscars, Leonard Maltin, Mike Tyson News, Leonard Maltin Interviews Mike Tyson, Tyson, Mike Tyson Talks Oscars, Comedy News

In his second Funny Or Die appearance to date, Mike Tyson offers his Oscar picks. Because why not? Tyson is joined by noted film critic Leonard Mal...

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Highlights & Milestones: HuffPost Arts Celebrates 2010

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 05.25.2011

It's hard to believe we launched HuffPost Arts less than six months ago.

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Highlights This Week: Art's Measuring Stick

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeff Koons, Street Art, Slidepollajax, Architecture, Leonard Maltin, Smithsonian, Best-Films-of-the-Decade, Handel's Messiah, Shepard Fairey, Arts News

It's the end of the year, the holiday season is in full swing, and the Arts page has been reminiscing over the year/decade, as well as continuing to l...

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Leonard Maltin's TOP TEN FILMS: Time Capsule Of A Decade

Leonard Maltin | Posted 05.25.2011

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How do you sum up a decade in just ten movies? That's easy: you can't. Not when the first ten years of a new millennium saw the flowering of such est...

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2,000+ Words for the 2,000 Year Old Man: Mel Brooks Is Saluted by the Academy

Gregory Weinkauf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Dom Deluise, Marty Feldman, The Producers, Carol Arthur, History of the World: Part I, Maximillian Brooks, Mel Brooks, The Elephant Man, Leonard Maltin, Oscar, The Fly, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Silent Movie, The Twelve Chairs, Blazing Saddles, To Be or Not to Be, Michael DeLuise, Richard Pryor, Madeline Kahn, Young Frankenstein, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Anne Bancroft, Life Stinks, Richard Benjamin, Sid Ganis, Carl Reiner, Sid Caesar, High Anxiety, Cloris Leachman, Spaceballs, Entertainment News

Cloris Leachman aptly put it, "There is much that is serious about Mel Brooks. Inside that rapid-fire humor machine is a man with deep emotions, with a great capacity to care, and to love."

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