Berlin-born Conrad Veidt packed nearly 120 film roles into his all too brief lifetime, but it was the last film released before his death th...

50 YEARS OF CHARACTER ROLES IN AMERICAN AND FRENCH CLASSICS I was watching Josef von Sternberg’s flamboyantly decadent noir The Shanghai Ges...

Bernard Herrmann , likely the most celebrated of classic era film composers today, who wrote the scores   for Citizen Kane, Vertigo, N...

Casablanca - winner of Best Picture, Best Director (Michael Curtiz) and Best Screenplay (Julius and Philip Epstein and Howard Koch...

If by some bizarre quirk of fate I end up stranded on a deserted island that happens to have a reliable food source, lots of sunshine and...

Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Charade (1963) Thinking of Paris and all of France today, and of films that evoke my own deep aff...

Turner Classic Movies, Warner Bros. and NCM Fathom have joined in celebration of Casablanca as it turns 70 with Turner Classic Movies Pr...

Last Friday night I attended a very special screening of " Casablanca with the San Francisco Symphony" at Davies Hall. Conducto...