John Huston News

The Downtown Film Festival-Los Angeles, which runs from Aug. 12-22, will pay tribute to Paul Newman on Aug.

James S. Wood / arizona daily star 2005 More Photos : M. Scot's Movie Talk The Fox a classy place to see classic films Opinion by M. Scot Skinner skinner@azstarnet.com Until last Saturday night, I had never seen "The African Queen," but I was pretty sure it didn't feature four-horse chariots tearing through what looked like the Chiricahuas east of ...

Some taste the blood of Christ all week long, so much that they become haunted by the Sunday offering.

Yes, the Clermont Hotel, which was put up for sale in April for $6.5 million, is now in foreclosure .

Let us now give a big round of applause for land developer Ralph Horowitz - the winner of this year's Noah Cross Corporate Citizen of the Year Award in Los Angeles.

As I have been noting at my blog , there are some aspects of WISE BLOOD that are virtually irreducible to analysis; it is a novel in which that which is temporal and that which is sacramental collide, and I am left staggering after the experience.

"My church is the Church Without Christ. I am a member and preacher to that church, where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk, and what's dead, stays that way." - Hazel Motes John Huston directed nearly four dozen films during his career.

Video Event of the Week: Is it MGM's Blu-ray update of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly , Sergio Leone's classic spaghetti western with Clint Eastwood ? Might the new Criterion DVD of Wise Blood , the amazing John Huston film with Brad Dourif possibly get the nod? Or against everything that is good and holy, could Fox's Blu-ray of Taken -- the ...

John Huston's acclaimed 1979 adaptation of the first novel by Southern writer Flannery O'Connor. Brad Dourif plays Hazel Motes, who, fresh out of the army, attempts to open the first Church Without Christ in the small town of Taulkinham.

PICK OF THE WEEK "Galaxy Quest" : Peeved at all the hoopla over J.J. Abrams's new "Trek" revival? This freshly reissued parody earns more laughs than you might expect, without belly-flopping into anything-goes gags like those increasingly tiresome David Zucker productions and their imitators.

A two-time Oscar winner and four lads from Liverpool will be on the big screen at Baltimore's Senator Theatre this week, as owner Tom Kiefaber continues to mark the coming end of his family's 70-year run as operators of the city's last vintage, single-screen movie house.

Liam Neeson plays an ex-spy who uses the old, bad skills to rescue his daughter from the slave trade.

The buzz in Hollywood movies this week is all about Hugh Jackman as Wolverine but classic movie fans will recognize another name in the credits: Danny Huston , son of the late director John Huston , grandson of the character actor Walter Huston.

Meet retired Sheriff Ray Wilkes. In 1952 he was sworn in as a Deputy Sheriff for Bibb Countya and for the next 42 years he wore his badge with pride.

THE Hailsham Film Club will be screening Chinatown at the Hailsham Pavilion on April 21 .

Yet another in my series of fully biased reports on movies that are frustratingly absent a decent DVD release here in the United States Here are ten more neglected films -- and this is one article I wouldn't mind seeing become dated, when/if these films finally do arrive on disc: The List of Adrian Messenger : I'll confess that I haven't seen this ...

I wasn't sure this column would pan out. But with my savings and salary shrinking, it seemed worth a try.

Orson Welles' last, uncompleted film will not premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival as rumored, Peter Bogdanovich tells me.

Allegra Huston has spoken of her shock at finding out she was the love child of the British aristocrat, John Julius Norwich.

She grew up as part of Hollywood royalty but Allegra Huston was never sure where she belonged until, aged 12, a British viscount turned her life upside down Standing beside Daddy in the party at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was a woman unlike anyone I'd ever met.