I wrote a column about the visit for the newspaper I then worked for. It was one of my most popular — and, I daresay, one of my best — resulting in a flood of positive e-mails and phone calls from Glenn Ford fans who voiced their appreciation.

Set in and around a community recreation center in a small Pennsylvania town, the story focuses on a group of men (Asner, Kehler, Cariani and Wells) who gather on a regular basis to play cards, shoot the breeze, bust each other’s chops and, occasionally, offer sage and sympathetic advice to each other.

This three-hour event will open with filmmaker Kevin Smith and frequent co-star/longtime friend Jason Mewes hosting their popular podcast, “Jay and Silent Bob Get Old,� in which they reflect on their relationship both on and off the screen, as well as a variety of other topics.

This international filmmaking experiment is perhaps the ultimate tribute to George Lucas’ classic 1977 space opera as conceived by Casey Pugh, an innovative web developer and designer who took 15-second clips from the original Star Wars and...

The show absolutely swept the Tony Awards in 1965: Best Musical, Best Direction of a Musical and Best Choreography (both for Jerome Robbins), Best Producer of a Musical (Harold Prince), Best Author, Best Composer and Lyricist, Best Featured Actress...

For the last several weeks, SEFCA members — and critics everywhere — have been tearing through screenings and screeners of eligible films. There are those who think being a film critic is fun. They would be correct. There are those who think being a film critic is easy.

Matt attempts to bond with his daughters (Shailene Woodley and Amara Miller) while trying to make sense of the hand that fate has dealt him, one replete with unexpected revelations about his wife, his daughters and seemingly every aspect of his life. He’s a man at a crossroads, uncertain where to turn but determined to do right.

The film stars Jonah Hill in the title role, Noah Griffith, one of the most unlikely babysitters in recent memory. In order to give his divorced, harried mother (Jessica Hecht) a well-deserved night on the town, Noah agrees to babysit three neighborhood children (Max Records, Landry Bender and Kevin Hernandez).

When actor Michael Shannon attended the 2011 RiverRun International Film Festival in April to receive the Emerging Master Award, he was accompanied by award-winning filmmaker and UNCSA School of Filmmaking graduate Jeff Nichols, who made his feature debut with the critically acclaimed Shotgun Stories (2007), in which Shannon starred.

The Academy Foundation, which is the cultural and educational component of the academy, annually distributes more than $1 million to film scholars, cultural organizations and film festivals throughout the United States and abroad, as well as presenting the academy’s public screenings and other programs during the year.

The book is a breezy, fast-moving account of ’70s and ’80s independent cinema as seen from the ground up, as well as valentine (a quirky one, to be sure) to memories of a Baltimore long gone, as well as a tribute to the can-do spirit of John Waters...

Torn between his responsibilities as a father and the need to survive, he contemplates sending the boy away to live with relatives. Whether his son stays or goes, the consequences will weigh heavily on his conscience. Is there actually a right decision to be made?.

There’s money to be made where movies are made, and North Carolina is no exception. Last week, the Piedmont Triad Film Commission hosted a special event at the Proximity Hotel in Greensboro to officially unveil its new promotional short, “Focus on the Piedmont Triad.

Halloween may be over, but the season of screams will continue with the premiere of the independent horror shocker In the Devil’s Courthouse on Thursday, Nov. 10 at Carousel Luxury Cinemas (1305 Battleground Ave., Greenboro), followed by a week-long run at the theater.

“In space, no one can hear you scream.” With those eight words, Twentieth Century Fox staked its claim to one of the most successful science-fiction franchises in film history. One word said it all, then and now: Alien.

The documentary feature Sex and Money: A National Search for Human Worth offers an uncompromising look at the heinous but highly profitable phenomenon of international sex trafficking — and its direct ties to contemporary American culture.

Herschell Gordon Lewis laughed long and hard. The cult filmmaker, who first brought bloodspattered grue to the masses in the early 1960s and is the subject of a new documentary, has just been asked a question that hardly bears repeating.

The Mixed Tape Film Series is also getting into the spirit of the season with a pair of big-screen fright fests one an absolute Hollywood classic, the other a funky cult classic with a freakish streak of black humor which will be screened at the Carolina Theatre (310 S. Greene St., Greensboro).

Cliff Robertson was a great actor and a great pal. We werent close friends, but we corresponded, and that is a high point in both my professional and personal life.

Indeed, in many scenes thats the real Winter that Highsmith is working (and swimming) with. I was taught her behavior, and she definitely learned mine, she said.