Paul Muni

onscreen Bootleggers and gangsters defined original mobster movies, such as the 1932 "Scarface," starring Paul Muni. See it tonight at 8 at Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington. $10, 631-423-7611, cinemaarts.org. go learn Trash or treasure? Find out for...

NOW PLAYING •indicates a capsule review from Chicago Tribune archives. ♦indicates a film that is not reviewed, but of interest. Bank of America Cinema 4901 W. Irving Park Rd. 312-904-9442 •'City Lights' **** (U.S.; Charles Chaplin,...

Though it's been six years since Lenny Kaplan, 71, left the restaurant business, he's still one of Baltimore's best-known restaurateurs. Among the businesses that he and his wife, Gail Kaplan, have owned and run: Pimlico Restaurant, Classic Catering,...

In the San Fernando Valley trifecta of Encino, Sherman Oaks and Studio City, common knowledge is that more exclusive, pricier properties sit south of Ventura Boulevard. Parts of Encino, like Amestoy Estates, beg to differ. Beginnings Amestoy Estates'...

FROM the early silent era to Martin Scorsese's "The Departed," gangster films have captivated audiences around the world. "Gangsters & Crime in the Big City," a weeklong retrospective at the American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre, offers an...

From The Times: April 5, 1960 "Ben-Hur" last night proved as big an Academy Award winner as it has been on the big screen. Sweeping all before it, its horses, light and dark, its chariots and its filmic makers triumphed in 11 categories for an all-time...

Vincent Sherman, who directed Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis and Errol Flynn during their 1940s heyday at Warner Bros. and was one of the last surviving studio-era contract directors, has died. He was 99. Sherman died Sunday night of natural causes at...

(NC-17). Le Gump: While the Paris "revolution" of '68 rages outside their doors, a teenage American expat and a pair of incestuous twins re-create the youth Bernardo Bertolucci never had (and neither did anyone else). Energetic at times, but kind of...

LOS ANGELES -- Marlon Brando, who revolutionized American acting with his Method performances in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "On the Waterfront" and went on to create the iconic characterization of Don Vito Corleone in "The Godfather," has died. He was...

In "La Mentale" (The Code), an absorbing French gangster picture, the plot remains eternal but ethnic groups change. Set in Chicago or New York in the bad old days, the gangs likely would have been Italian or Irish. In this film's present-day Paris the...

denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Gary Cooper as Longfellow Deeds in MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN Columbia Walter Huston as Sam Dodsworth in DODSWORTH Samuel Goldwyn Productions; UA Paul Muni as Louis Pasteur in THE STORY OF LOUIS...

denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Laurence Harvey as Joe Lampton in ROOM AT THE TOP Romulus Films, Ltd. Production; Continental Distributing, Inc. Charlton Heston as Judah Ben-Hur in BEN-HUR MGM Jack Lemmon as Jerry/Daphne in...