Federico Fellini’s landmark film was released 50 years ago next year. The Festival will celebrate the event. > > more

Clint Eastwood is a musician, composer, jazz enthusiast and occasional singer, and has made a string of vinyl recordings since the 1950s -- LPs and EPs in mono and stereo, and produced in the US, Japan, France, Italy and even Thailand.
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Who today, apart from fans of late-silent and early-talkie Hollywood films, remembers Kay Francis? Yet along with Garbo, she was one of the very biggest stars of Tinsel Town and the highest-paid actress of the time. Now she’s become a cult figure online, as shown by the blog Operator 99. > more

This well-known American photographer has just brought out a remarkable book of photos about the cinema,Seen Behind the Scene: Forty Years of Photographing On Set (Phaidon, 2009). > > more

This discreet actor and little-recognised director died just over a year ago. He was in fact a leading filmmaker much appreciated by fans of American noir films. Noir expert Eddie Muller’s excellent website filmnoirfoundation.org, has an article on him from the site’s newsletter, Noir City Sentinel. > > more

Victor Fleming’s 1939 super-classic Gone with the Wind is the biggest earner in the history of the cinema, according to the economic website Bloomberg.com. > > more

The French daily Le Monde’s critic Jean-Luc Douin recalls the long cinema history of American outlaw Matt Dillinger in his fulsome review of Michael Mann’s latest film, Public Enemies. Dillinger, officially the FBI’s “Public Enemy No. 1,” who was accused of only one murder, was a gangster-cum-dandy, a show-off who Johnny Depp brings a modern touch to in the film, according to Douin, giving him “the look of a pirate eager to be off to the Caribbean.” > > more

One person’s obsession with another is a great and (almost) inexhaustible subject for filmmakers. The website IFC.com has an article about several films that, since Clint Eastwood’s Play Misty For Me (1971), have virtually created a new genre – obsessive fan movies. > > more

The cinema has always had a fascination with the moon and probably hundreds of films have been made about travelling there. Steve Biodrowski, on cinefantastiqueonline.com, talks about some of them. > more

American actor Karl Malden, who won a best supporting actor Oscar for playing Mitch in Elia Kazan’s A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), died on 1 July at his Los Angeles home, aged 97. > > more