Fred Zinnemann

John Seabrook, the author of the original New Yorker story about Bob Kearns, the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper, loves the movie adaptation with the same name, Flash of Genius. It retains every pungent line Seabrook put on paper, no...

The value of one man's taking a stand has never been more thrillingly depicted than in Fred Zinnemann's 1952 High Noon, airing at 6:30 p.m. on TCM. Gary Cooper won his second Best Actor Oscar for playing laconic lawman Will Kane, who starts off the film...

Paul Scofield, one of the giants of the British stage who won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film "A Man for All Seasons," has died. He was 86. Scofield, who had been suffering from leukemia, died Wednesday in a...

For months now, Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky has been abiding by a superstition whenever his film "The Counterfeiters" is mentioned in the same breath as the Academy Awards. "I don't use the 'O-word,' " Ruzowitzky said with a sheepish grin. The O-...

'The Day of the Jackal' 7 p.m., TCM Still one of movie history's smoothest blends of fact and fiction, veteran director Fred Zinnemann's wonderfully European-flavored 1973 version of the Frederick Forsyth best seller casts British actor Edward Fox as...

Most films produced in Technicolor during the late 1930s and early '40s were musicals, historical epics or period melodramas — but that all changed with 1945's juicy psychological thriller "Leave Her to Heaven." Leon Shamroy won a cinematography...

On May 1, Alejandro González Iñárritu skipped out on the final mix of his film "Babel" to take his family to the immigration rallies in downtown L.A. While his absence might have given heartburn to the production staff hurtling to get the Brad Pitt-Cate...

3 stars (out of four) Francois Ozon's "5X2," like Harold Pinter's play "Betrayal," is a tale of blighted love told backward. But though both Pinter's and Ozon's stories begin at the end and proceed to the beginning—and though both show a couple whose...

2½ stars (out of 4) In "The Assassination of Richard Nixon," Sean Penn plays a Dostoyevskian Everyman, a hapless would-be presidential killer sinking into a purgatory of futility, madness and delusions of sick grandeur. It's a tribute to Penn's talent...

Marlon Brando's extraordinary emotional intelligence expressed itself in every inch of his body for every second - the phrase "being in the moment" might as well have been coined for him. Of course, other actors in New York and Hollywood had been as...

Some motion pictures are born great, others achieve greatness over time, but only the truly exceptional have had it both ways. Rapturously received from the moment it was released in 1953, "From Here to Eternity" remains, half a century later, a...

Mystery sneak preview 9:15 p.m. March 7 at Regal. Join us for a sneak preview of a new comedy from one of America's most renowned indie filmmakers, starring Roberto Benigni, Tom Waits, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop, GZA and RZA,...