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Bacall: 'Hollywood is a zoo' -
24 August 2009
-Screen legend Lauren Bacall has hit out at the current state of Hollywood, insisting modern movie stars are only interested in fame.-
-The How To Marry A Millionaire actress, who is considered part of Hollywood's golden age, blames tabloid culture for breeding an obse
Lauren Bacall - what members say
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Lauren Bacall - filmography
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Jack Cardiff - Cameraman
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Jack Cardiff, John Mills, Thelma Schoonmaker
Director: Craig McCall
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Jack Cardiff was lauded by the Hollywood greats he photographed films for - John Huston, Sophia Loren, Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe - and described by Michael Powell as "A genius, a daydreamer, a baby. He should have been a painter instead of being the best colour cameraman in the world." Yet ..read more »
 
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from 159 members
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The Walker
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall
Director: Paul Schrader
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A contemporary drama set in Washington, D.C., The Walker centers around Carter Page (Harrelson), a well-heeled and popular socialite who serves as confidant, companion, and card partner to some of the capitol's leading ladies. These pampered women are married to the most powerful men in America, ..read more »
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from 6,435 members
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These Foolish Things
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Zoe Tapper, Terence Stamp
Director: Julia Taylor-Stanley
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These Foolish Things follows the fluctuating fortunes of a young actress as she struggles to emulate her famous mother's glittering career on the London stage. These Foolish Things stars luminaries of the silver screen Lauren Bacall, Anjelica Huston and Terence Stamp and features a strong ensemble ..read more »
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from 190 members
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Manderlay
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach De Bankole, Danny Glover
Director: Lars Von Trier
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Danish auteur Lars Von Trier's controversial sequel to Dogville. Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard) and her father (Willem Dafoe) having fled Dogville, arrive in Alabama at the gate of a troubled plantation where the abolition of slavery 70 years earlier has been ignored. Disregarding her father's advice,..read more »
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from 6,193 members
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Birth
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Anne Heche
Director: Jonathan Glazer
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Birth is a dramatic mystery set in New York's Upper East Side. Into the life of a 35 year old woman, Anna, comes a 10 year old boy, David, who is in love with her and convinced he is the reincarnation of her dead husband. Drawn to remember her past, Anna begins to question the choices she's made, ..read more »
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from 30,736 members
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Howl's Moving Castle
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Chieko Baisho, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
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When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking home.
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from 25,685 members
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Dogville
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Lauren Bacall
Director: Lars Von Trier
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Set in the 1930s during the Depression in the Rocky Mountains, DOGVILLE is Lars von Trier's comment on Americana and his uniquely perverse view of small town life. With period costumes, and flashes of THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER--which is being read by one of the characters--von Trier sets the ..read more »
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from 23,430 members
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Presence Of Mind
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Sadie Frost, Harvey Keitel, Lauren Bacall
Director: Antonio Aloy
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A retelling of Henry James' ghost story "Turn of the Screw". Upon the death of her incestuous father, a young woman is called on to serve as a Governess for two children, Miles and Flora. Their Uncle, the master, became the guardian of the youngsters after the loss of their parents. Seduced by the ..read more »
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from 111 members
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My Fellow Americans
(1996)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Dan Aykroyd
Director: Peter Segal
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Kramer and Douglas, two former presidents from opposite ends of the political spectrum, having individually discovered a cover-up by the current president (Aykroyd), flee together when they are almost assassinated by the Secret Service.
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from 60 members
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The Mirror Has Two Faces
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Pierce Brosnan
Director: Barbra Streisand
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Based on Andre Cayatte's 1958 film LE MIROIR A DEUX FACES, THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES finds Barbra Streisand directing her third motion picture, casting herself in the lead as Rose Morgan and Jeff Bridges as Professor Gregory Larkin, her foil. Morgan and Larkin, two cerebral Columbia professors, ..read more »
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from 1,887 member
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Pret A Porter
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Kim Basinger
Director: Robert Altman
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Robert Altman delivers another sprawling satire with READY TO WEAR, this time focusing his lens on the tightly knit, pretentious fashion industry. After a popular fashion leader dies during the most important industry gathering of the year in Paris, the question that it might have been murder ..read more »
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from 1,585 member
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A Foreign Field
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Edward Herrmann
Director: Charles Sturridge
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Five decades after blood flowed freely on its shores, Normandy is revisited by a handful of nostalgic World War Two veterans (Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, and John Randolph). It isn't long before the men begin to reopen old wounds as they explore the battlefield that shaped their lives. Two of the ..read more »
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from 393 members
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Misery
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Frances Sternhagen
Director: Rob Reiner
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Watch now: £2.49
Romance author Paul Sheldon (James Caan) longs to be rid of Misery, his plucky heroine of seven novels. She has delivered him fame and fortune and recognition beyond the average writer's dreams, but she is also interminably linked to him. Determined to escape an eternal role as pulp novelist, he ..read more »
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from 19,037 members
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Appointment With Death
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher
Director: Michael Winner
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Based on the novel by Agatha Christie, a posh 1937 tour of the holy land turns murderous when a malicious, wealthy dowager (Piper Laurie) is mysteriously poisoned. Each of her fellow tourists had the means and the motive to kill her and any of them would have enjoyed plunging the lethal hypodermic ..read more »
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from 258 members
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The Shootist
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Harry Morgan, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall
Director: Don Siegel
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John Wayne, in his last film appearance, stars as famed gunfighter J.J. Brooks. After learning from Dr. Hostetler (James Stewart) that he's dying of stomach cancer and has no more than two months to live, he moves into a boarding house in Carson City run by Bond Rogers (Lauren Bacall) and her son, ..read more »
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from 1,968 member
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Young Man With A Horn
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day
Director: Michael Curtiz
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Aimless youth Rick Martin learns he has a gift for music and falls in love with the trumpet. Legendary trumpeter Art Hazzard takes Rick under his wing and teaches him all he knows about playing. To the exclusion of anything else in life, Rick becomes a star trumpeter, but his volatile personality ..read more »
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from 179 members
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Key Largo
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
Director: John Huston
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Richard Brooks and John Huston's screenplay for Huston's Key Largo eschews the lofty blank verse of Maxwell Anderson's original play, concentrating instead on the simmering tensions among the many characters. Humphrey Bogart plays Frank McCloud, an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo in ..read more »
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from 3,206 members
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The Big Sleep
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Lauren Bacall, Dorothy Malone, Elisha Cook Jr Jr.
Director: Howard Hawks
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Watch now: Unavailable
The definitive Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall vehicle, The Big Sleep casts Bogart as Raymond Chandler's cynical private eye Philip Marlowe. Summoned to the home of the fabulously wealthy General Sternwood (Charles Waldron), Marlowe is hired to deal with a blackmailer shaking down the General's ..read more »
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from 9,100 members
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Douglas Sirk Collection
on DVD
Starring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Lana Turner
Director: Douglas Sirk
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Douglas Sirk's body of work collected for posterity. The man is a Hollywood icon to actors and producers that have followed in his footsteps. His influence is still felt in the work of Todd Haynes, Rainer Fassbinder, John Walters, Martin Scorsese and others.
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from 886 members
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Lauren Bacall facts
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... of her early screwball comedies (with some great one-liners from the wonderful Lauren Bacall as Streisand's mother), but soon degenerates into a silly and unbelievable tale...
