Although they were not the only names announced as recipients of Honorary Oscars last Tuesday – film historian and documentary filmmaker Kevin Brownlow and actor Eli Wallach were also named – Francis Ford Coppola and Jean-Luc Godard are arguably the most well-known and influential of them…

Ida Lupino, who is the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art through September 20, had often joked that as an actress, she was the poor man’s Bette Davis. Yet, as with many stars of the time, she possessed a greater range than people though at the time. And while she didn’t…

Today, TCM’s “Star of the Day” in their “Summer Under the Stars” month is Katharine Hepburn, which gives me the perfect excuse to talk about my favorite Katharine Hepburn movie (even though, unfortunately, it isn’t being shown today, though it’s available on DVD). It’s Stage Door, the 1937…