Norman Jewison

Oscar-winning producer Walter Mirisch has lived the American dream. He grew up in a poor immigrant family, and despite suffering hardships during the Great Depression, he found his way to Harvard. He later went on to a storied career producing some of the...

ESPN Films will team up with Robert Redford's production company on an upcoming biopic about baseball pioneers Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey. The Robinson-Rickey project, which has been in development for some time with a variety of directors, will...

Many a great film director is tethered artistically to a trusted actor: John Ford had the Duke, Fellini had Mastroianni and Scorsese had De Niro. For Sam Peckinpah, the volatile maverick who reinvented the western as a hyperviolent, nihilistic...

"The Bourne Ultimatum" and "Sweeney Todd" were honored tonight as the best-edited feature films of 2007. Christopher Rouse was given the American Cinema Editors' highest honor -- the Eddie Award -- in the dramatic category for the spy thriller while...

The UCLA Film & Television Archive's new venue, the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, officially opens Friday with a screening of the Oscar-winning 1960 Wilder classic "The Apartment." Two days later, the archive kicks off its "Art of Light"...

For a movie that was not a very big hit in theaters, "The Princess Bride" has enjoyed as long and fruitful a life on video as just about any film of the past 20 years. That might explain why the third DVD version of the movie, based on Oscar-winning...

Sven Nykvist, the Oscar-winning cinematographer and filmmaker whose naturalistic, straightforward camera work distinguished the movies of directors Ingmar Bergman and Woody Allen, died Wednesday. He was 83. Nykvist had battled a long illness and was...

To watch the new "Rollerball" is to understand why John McTiernan would be tempted to rework the 1975 Norman Jewison original. The earlier film was set in a future in which an ultra-violent sport served as an outlet for a world in which other violence had...

Friday September 11, 1998      Imagine a square cage, 14 by 14 feet, covered on all sides by what looks to be translucent panels with geometric Art Deco designs. This is the space in which Canadian filmmaker Vincenzo Natali has trapped six people in...

Wednesday December 29, 1999      Denzel Washington's career has not lacked for exceptional roles; he's been nominated for Oscars and even won one. But nothing really prepares us for what he does in "The Hurricane." With power, intensity, remarkable range...

On paper, "The Statement" sounds as if it couldn't help but be of interest. Its stars are Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton and Jeremy Northam. Its director is the veteran Norman Jewison. And its script, by "The Pianist's" Oscar-winning Ronald Harwood, is...

3 stars (out of 4) Haskell Wexler, now 80, is one of the great cinematographers of the American cinema, an Oscar-winning master ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," "Bound for Glory") and avowed left-wing social activist. Mark S. Wexler, born in 1958,...