(Check local listings) We'd call this the sweetest bird documentary since "March of the Penguins," but "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill" actually came out in 2003. It's making its television debut here, and you shouldn't miss it. Filmmaker Judy Irving chronicles the story of Mark Bittner, a homeless San Franciscan whose life is transformed by his friendship with some decided...
Documentary portrays the saga of how Italian Americans went from being outsiders who were stereotyped as gangsters in American movies to insiders in Hollywood who took control of their own stories. Interviews, film clips and home movies from Italian American filmmakers highlight personal experiences and comment on Hollywood's politics and cultural impact.
A self-anointed 'renegade' male flight attendant must save the day when the airline he works for tries to eliminate flight attendants as a cost-cutting measure
本片是根据1950年代的八卦专栏作家兼电台节目主持人华特温契尔(史丹利图奇,「仲夏夜之梦」)的生平所改编的传记电影。在八卦周刊问世之前,大众若想 知道些名人轶事,只能经由报纸上的专栏得知,所以报纸专栏作家在当时的社会,可说具有相当的影响力和权威,温契尔便是其中一位备受争议的代表性人物。他的 写作风格在当时近乎异端,而其私生活比起他笔下的好莱坞明星亦不遑多让。温契尔抛下自己的家不顾,却在旅馆跟一个梦想成为大明星的妓女同居。20至50年 代中期是温契尔最活跃的时期,他在当时的社会上有着无与伦比的影响力,只要他的一句话,就能使人成名…或毁人名声。他所主持的节目是全美收视或收听率最高 的,因而他有"八卦专栏之父"的封号,他留下许多至今仍脍炙人口的名言,譬如『今日的八卦是明日的头条新闻』、『八卦就是…一方面什么都没说,却又什么都 说尽了的一门艺术』。饰演温契尔...
Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull," bringin...