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A familiar and trusted broadcast presence in New York City over the last 50 years has signed off the air for the final time: Chuck Scarborough, who has anchored or coanchored Wnbc TV since Nixon was in office, America was in Vietnam and the city itself was teetering on economic failure, surprised many viewers Thursday when he announced on air that he had just delivered his final newscast.

While Scarborough, 81, hadn’t exactly kept his semi-retirement plans a secret in recent weeks, the goodbye no doubt came as unwelcome news to many loyal and longtime viewers.

“From one Chuck to another,” tweeted New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, “Best wishes on your next chapter, Chuck. You didn’t just tell us the news, you made NYers feel at home and for that we thank you.”

Scarborough joined NBC News in March 1974 as co-anchor with Jim Hartz of Wnbc-tv’s then-new 5:00 Pm newscast,...

Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in New York to close next month Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Dan and Toby Talbot, longtime operators and programmers (since 1981) of the six-screen Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, located on Broadway and 62nd Street near Lincoln Center plan to end their run on January 21, 2018 when the lease runs out.

The Measure Of A Man poster at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas

Over the past two years I had the pleasure to do opening night post-screening discussions at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas with Géza Röhrig, star of the Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language Film Son Of Saul, directed by László Nemes; with Atom Egoyan for his film Remember, starring Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau; with Gianfranco Rosi on his Oscar-nominated documentary Fire At Sea (Fuocoammare); with Vincent Lindon, star of Stéphane Brizé‘s The Measure Of A Man (La Loi Du Marché), and with Stig Björkman and Pia Lindström on his New...

Hollywood's most elegantly natural, defiantly independent actress comes alive in a film biography about her personal life, using inside family testimony, rare film and her diaries. Sweden's Ingrid seems more radiant than ever. Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 82228 2015 / B&W-Color / 1:78 widescreen / 114 min. / Jag är Ingrid / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date August 16, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Pia Lindström, Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Rossellini, Isabella Rossellini, Fiorella Mariani, Liv Ullmann, Sigourney Weaver, Jeanine Basinger. Ingrid Bergman's voice Alicia Vikander Film Editor Dominika Daubenbüchel Original Music Michael Nyman Written by Stig Björkman, Stina Gardell and Dominika Daubenbüchel Produced by Stina Gardell Directed by Stig Björkman

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Ingrid Bergman had one of the most fascinating lives of any woman of the 20th century. An ambitious actress, she let herself be guided by her desires and her heart. Although banished by Hollywood and vilified by the press,...

The dismal failure of last summer’s We Are You Friends does not appear to have deterred everyone from attempting on-camera adaptations of electronic music culture. Primary Wave Entertainment has announced a new television project in development centered around DJ culture and the world of electronic music, announcing none other than Steve Angello as executive producer.

As one third of now-defunct Edm supergroup Swedish House Mafia, Angello’s electronic music credentials speak for themselves. In addition, the services of his wife and studio partner Isabel Adrian have also been enlisted – as well as music video director Gregory Alosio, Cult Collective’s Pia Lindstrom, Martin Management’s Sharlene Martin-Ludwig and Primary Wave Entertainment senior manager Ben Press.

Considering that little recent news has surfaced in regards to HBO’s Edm-oriented series, Higher – on which Jay Z, Will Smith and Calvin Harris are credited – perhaps Angello and company will be able to...

Isabella Rossellini, at the Twentieth Century Fox Joy celebration lunch, remembers Nando Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

When I moderated a post screening discussion with Pia Lindström and Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (Jag Är Ingrid) director Stig Björkman at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, the memory of a distinctive Rossellini family dachshund puppy made everyone laugh. At this week's lunch at La Grenouille, honoring David O. Russell's Joy with Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Elisabeth Röhm, Dascha Polanco, Diane Ladd and Virginia Madsen from the cast (and with Bob Balaban and Celia Weston attending), Isabella Rossellini gave me the name of the infamous little darling. She also spoke about her work with the Guide Dog Foundation For The Blind and her role in Joy as advisor to Jennifer Lawrence's character Joy Mangano, the creator of the Miracle Mop.

Trudy and Rudy with Joy

Joy's father Rudy (De Niro...

The first hurtle of making a documentary about any legend is to avoid being a hagiography. One of the most pervasive criticisms of reverential docs is the parade of talking heads failing to contextualize hyperbole about the person. This year saw two notable push backs against this criticism with Asif Kapadia’s warts-and-all expose Amy, and Brett Morgen’s Montage of Heck, which featured enough egregious child abuse to make even the most hardcore Nirvana fans question the cult of Kurt Cobain.

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words tries a similarly blemished approach, mostly eliminating outside sources to tell seminal actress Ingrid Bergman’s story through her own personal diary entries, letters, home video, photography, and the accounts of her four children. Combining narration of the letters by Alicia Vikander with personal footage, as well as interstitials that delineate vague sections of both Bergman’s life and her own internal journey,...

Stina Gardell, Pia Lindström, Stig Björkman with Anne-Katrin Titze Photo: Adrienne Halpern

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (Jag Är Ingrid) opened in the Us at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas on Friday with the director Stig Björkman and Pia Lindström joining me for a post screening discussion. Pia, Roberto Rossellini, Isabella Rossellini and Ingrid Rossellini appear in Stig's film to comment on their mother, whose life story had been fodder for the press. It is truly fascinating to catch the constantly moving movie star from different angles in her home movies. Letters and diary entries read by Alicia Vikander guide us through the decades from Sweden to Hollywood to Italy and Paris and London.

Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious, Michael Curtiz' Casablanca, Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli, Leo McCarey's The Bells Of St. Mary's, and Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata are revealed to have special meaning. The memory of a distinctive Rossellini...

Producer Stina Gardell with Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words director Stig Björkman Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Ingrid Bergman won Oscars for George Cukor's Gaslight, Anatole Litvak's Anastasia and Murder On The Orient Express, directed by Sidney Lumet. In Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (Jag är Ingrid), Stig Björkman's warmhearted and elaborate documentary about the star, her four children, Pia Lindström, Isabella Rossellini, Ingrid Rossellini, and Roberto Rossellini as well as colleagues Liv Ullmann and Sigourney Weaver share their memories about the mother, the woman, who never threw anything away. Alicia Vikander's alluring voiceover, Bergman's luminous face - and the camera's love for it - are a perfect match.

At Payard on Houston Street, the director and Stina Gardell joined me to discuss Ingrid Bergman, her children, Michael Nyman, Liv Ullmann relating an Ingmar Bergman Autumn Sonata moment, Eva Dahlgren and praise from Arnaud Desplechin.

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Although his incredible High-Rise has yet to be acquired, Alchemy has picked up Ben Wheatley‘s next film Free Fire for a likely 2016 release, Deadline reports.

Michael Haneke guides us through his storyboards for Code Unknown, now on Criterion:

Bong Joon-ho will executive produce a Snowpiercer TV show, adapted by Josh Friedman (Avatar 2 and 3, War of the Worlds), THR reports:

The potential series will be based on the 2013 film that was written and directed by Bong Joon Ho in his first English-language production. The movie, which starred Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton is set in a post-apocalyptic Ice Age where the only remaining life on the planet...

Being honored on the official poster for this year’s Cannes Film Festival wasn’t the only time Ingrid Bergman was in the spotlight at the event. The late, legendary actress was also the subject of a new documentary hailing from her home country of Sweden. Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words comes from writer and critic Stig Björkman and has been in the works since earlier this decade, when he met with Bergman’s daughter, Isabella Rossellini.

As reads the Cannes synopsis, “Through never-before-seen private footage, notes, letters, diaries and interviews with her children, this documentary presents a personal portrait and captivating look behind the scenes of the remarkable life of a young Swedish girl who became one of the most celebrated actresses of American and World cinema.”

As heard in the new U.S. trailer, voice-over comes from Alicia Vikander, while Ingrid Rossellini, Roberto Rossellini, Pia Lindström,...

Stig Björkman’s Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words tracks the actress's life and career from Sweden to Hollywood, then Italy, where she'd work with Roberto Rossellini, France and back to Hollywood. We hear from her children, including Isabella Rossellini and Pia Lindström. Michael Nyman's score "soars across the images" and Alicia Vikander reads from Ingrid Bergman's journals. Flavorwire's Jason Bailey: "Focusing more on her inconvenient romances and rootless nature—she called herself a 'bird of passage'—than Casablanca or Notorious, Björkman’s film is dreamlike and lovely, unfolding like a trip through her photo albums, or even a log of her dream-life." We've got more reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...

Stig Björkman’s Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words tracks the actress's life and career from Sweden to Hollywood, then Italy, where she'd work with Roberto Rossellini, France and back to Hollywood. We hear from her children, including Isabella Rossellini and Pia Lindström. Michael Nyman's score "soars across the images" and Alicia Vikander reads from Ingrid Bergman's journals. Flavorwire's Jason Bailey: "Focusing more on her inconvenient romances and rootless nature—she called herself a 'bird of passage'—than Casablanca or Notorious, Björkman’s film is dreamlike and lovely, unfolding like a trip through her photo albums, or even a log of her dream-life." We've got more reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...

Ingrid Bergman ca. early 1940s. Ingrid Bergman movies on TCM: From the artificial 'Gaslight' to the magisterial 'Autumn Sonata' Two days ago, Turner Classic Movies' “Summer Under the Stars” series highlighted the film career of Greta Garbo. Today, Aug. 28, '15, TCM is focusing on another Swedish actress, three-time Academy Award winner Ingrid Bergman, who would have turned 100 years old tomorrow. TCM has likely aired most of Bergman's Hollywood films, and at least some of her early Swedish work. As a result, today's only premiere is Fielder Cook's little-seen and little-remembered From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973), about two bored kids (Sally Prager, Johnny Doran) who run away from home and end up at New York City's Metropolitan Museum. Obviously, this is no A Night at the Museum – and that's a major plus. Bergman plays an elderly art lover who takes an interest in them; her...

Read More: BAMcinématek Presents 'Ingrid Bergman Tribute' to Commemorate 'Casablanca' Star's Centennial Birthday Rialto Pictures has acquired U.S. and Canadian theatrical rights to "Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words," a feature-length documentary tribute to the international movie icon. Rialto has licensed the title from Paris-based Pretty Pictures. The film had its world premiere in the Cannes Classics section earlier this year and will hit the New York Film Festival in October. "In Her Own Words" features never-before-seen home movies alongside Bergman's personal notes, letters and diaries to create an intimate portrait of one of the most acclaimed film actresses of all time. Interviewees include Bergman's four children -- Isabella Rossellini, Ingrid Rossellini, Roberto Rossellini and Pia Lindström) -- Fiorella Mariani, Liv Ullmann, Sigourney Weaver and Jeanine Basinger, with narration provided by Swedish actress Alicia Vikander...

Ahead of MoMA’s and the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s centennial celebration of Bergman’s career, her daughter reflects on a woman who didn’t care for makeup and who swore by keeping things simple

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is honouring the Swedish film star Ingrid Bergman in a centennial celebration on the Hollywood star’s birthday (29 August). A three-time Academy Award-winning actor, some of her best performances during her 50-year career will screen – such as her lead role in Casablanca – for a 14-film retrospective that sees her three daughters (author and actor Isabella Rossellini, academic Ingrid Rossellini and former film critic Pia Lindström) introducing the films.

Rossellini – the daughter of Bergman and Italian director Roberto Rossellini, and star of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet – can’t believe it has been 100 years.

Ahead of MoMA’s and the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s centennial celebration of Bergman’s career, her daughter reflects on a woman who didn’t care for makeup and who swore by keeping things simple

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is honouring the Swedish film star Ingrid Bergman in a centennial celebration on the Hollywood star’s birthday (29 August). A three-time Academy Award-winning actor, some of her best performances during her 50-year career will screen – such as her lead role in Casablanca – for a 14-film retrospective that sees her three daughters (author and actor Isabella Rossellini, academic Ingrid Rossellini and former film critic Pia Lindström) introducing the films.

Rossellini – the daughter of Bergman and Italian director Roberto Rossellini, and star of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet – can’t believe it has been 100 years.

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While their scandalous love affair and subsequent marriage eclipsed the five collaborative films they made together, this month Criterion brings Roberto Rossellini’s Ingrid Bergman headlining Voyage trilogy to the collection, comprised of their first three ventures, Stromboli (1950), Europe ’51 (1952) and Journey To Italy (1954). None of these titles would be deemed a commercial success, even while several notable critics and filmmakers would champion them, such as Francois Truffaut and Eric Rohmer.

As their marriage crumbled after three children (one of whom would go on to become famed actress and model Isabella Rossellini), Bergman would eventually overcome the notoriety that had banished her from Hollywood to win two more Academy Awards, while Rossellini would go on to make other acclaimed titles, though the failures of his work with Bergman made it difficult to secure funding. The specter of their scandal (they were both married to others at the time of their affair...

Alfred Hitchcock is one of the few directors whose legendary stature almost overshadows his entire body of work. His films are classic and unforgettable, but the man himself managed to achieve a relationship with the audience that is only comparable to a doctor with a patient. He knew exactly what they needed, even if they didn’t know it or want it. By no means was he a perfect being nor did he have a spotless record, but the man was a master of his craft and a wealth of knowledge. That is why it’s great that we have interviews and discussions, like the one below the break, in which Hitchcock opens up about his career. In this interview from 1972, courtesy of No Film School, Pia Lindstrom (Ingrid Bergman’s daughter) and critic William Everson go in depth with the filmmaker. Between the two interviewers, they manage to cover...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Sept. 24, 2013

Price: DVD $79.95, Blu-ray $79.95

Studio: Criterion

George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman's marriage falls apart in Roberto Rossellini's Journey to Italy.

In the late 1940s, the incandescent Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca ) found herself so moved by the revolutionary Neorealist films of Roberto Rossellini (Open City) that she sent the director a letter, introducing herself and offering her talents. The resulting collaboration produced a series of films that are works of both sociopolitical concern and metaphysical melodrama, each starring Bergman as a woman experiencing physical dislocation and psychic torment in postwar Italy. It also famously led to a scandalous affair and eventual marriage between filmmaker and star, and the focus on their personal lives in the press unfortunately overshadowed the extraordinary films they made together.

Stromboli, Europe ’51, and Journey to Italy are intensely personal portraits that reveal the director at his most emotional and the...

By Allen Gardner

Killer Joe (Lionsgate) William Friedkin’s film of Tracy Letts’ off-Broadway hit about a family of Texas trailer park cretins (Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Thomas Haden Church, Gina Gershon) who hire a cop-cum-hitman (Matthew McConaughey) to take out their troublesome mother, then foolishly cross him, is a stinging satire, given double-barreled audacity by Friedkin’s sure, and fearless, directorial hand. Earning its Nc-17 rating in spades, “Killer Joe” reminds us that daring, frank material like this is why movies exist in the first place. McConaughey gives the performance of his career, hopefully redefined after this. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Featurettes; Commentary by Friendkin; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS-hd 5.1 surround.

The Dark Knight Rises (Warner Bros.) Christopher Nolan’s coda to his “Batman” trilogy finds Christian Bale returning as a brooding Bruce Wayne/Caped Crusader, this time faced with a hulking villain (Tom Hardy) with respiratory...

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Hitchcock’S Breakthrough

By Raymond Benson

Finally! After years of sub-par and downright bootleg quality transfers of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1934 British classic, The Man Who Knew Too Much, we now have a very decent-looking presentation. Thanks to The Criterion Collection, the film has undergone a new digital restoration, and it looks great. We can finally see a clear photographic image! Peter Lorre is no longer blurry and in soft-focus. And the sound! Thanks to an uncompressed monaural soundtrack, we can now actually hear the dialogue and understand it, whereas on previous releases everyone sounded like they were speaking from inside a barrel.

The Man Who Knew Too Much was Hitchcock’s first hugely successful talkie. In fact, Man was the number one picture in the UK in 1934, and it more or less introduced America to the Master of Suspense when it was imported across the pond. So, in many ways,...

At The Acting Companys 40th Anniversary Ruby Ball on Monday, December 3, 2012 at Capitale, James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director of the Signature Theatre and the Richard Rodgers Director of Juilliards Drama Division, will accept the John Houseman Award recognizing his profound commitment to the development of American actors and an audience for the theater. Earl Weiner, Board Chairman of both The Acting Company and the Theater Development Fund Tdf will receive the Warburg Humanitarian Award for his outstanding philanthropic endeavor and leadership. According to Barbara Fleischman, Gala Chair, Harriet HarrisThoroughly Modern Millie, upcoming in Cinderella and Dr. Kate Levin, Commissioner of New York Citys Department of Cultural Affairs, will present the awards Jim Dale will host, Kate Baldwin Finians Rainbow, upcoming in Giant will perform and tributes will be offered by Angela Lansbury, Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Rainn Wilson, Dana Ivey, Hamish Linklater, Joe Dowling, Director of The Guthrie and Michael Kahn,...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Jan. 15, 2013

Price: DVD $29.99, Blu-ray $39.99

Studio: Criterion

Peter Lorre is a evil--who woulda thunk it?--in Alfred Hitchcock's 1934 version of The Man Who Knew Too Much

The 1934 British mystery-thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much is the first of two versions of the film made by Alfred Hitchcock, the second being a 1956 Hollywood movie starring Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day.

In the 1934 film, an ordinary British couple (Leslie Banks and Edna Best) vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter (Nova Pilbeam) is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination. The clock is on and danger grows as the seconds tick by…

A strong early thriller from the Master of Suspense, The Man Who Knew Too Much was the first film the director made after signing to the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation. Besides affirming Hitchcock’s brilliance, it gave...

Chicago – Every seasoned movie lover can attest to having a favorite shot in Michael Curtiz’s 1942 classic “Casablanca,” a picture practically overflowing with indelible imagery. The first appearance of freedom fighter-turned-café owner Rick (Humphrey Bogart) decked out in a white tux, the tearful letter that turns to literal tears in a rainstorm, the final walk through the fog…all unforgettable.

Yet the shot that remains closest to my heart is the one that lingers on the face of Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), as she becomes hopelessly lost in the evocative notes and lyrics of a song from her past. No actress embodies earthy sensuality and misty-eyed passion quite like Bergman, who was at the peak of her luminous beauty at age 26. Her trancelike state of nostalgic longing never fails to mesmerize me, as her eyes convey what words could only feebly articulate.

Blu-ray Rating: 5.0/5.0

Unlike other landmarks of cinema history, “Casablanca...

Tony nominees Linda Lavin, Chad Kimball, Montego Glover, Valeria Harper, Jan Maxwell, Stephen Kunkel, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Katie Finneran were among those walking the red carpet at Cipriani 42nd Street Monday night along with others of the theater community: Harry Connick, Jr., Tommy Tune, Liz Smith, Phyllis Newman, Pia Lindstrom, Jimmy Nederlander. The occasion: the annual American Theater Wing gala, celebrating the work of composer Frank Loesser, a prelude to the big Tony night coming up this Sunday. Here is a glimpse of this tribute, a big night on its own: Memphis's Montego Glover said no to canapés, slight in a yellow gown, while her co-star Chad Kimball spoke laughingly of the wear and tear on his body in the demanding role as the young white D.J. who falls in love with the Memphis sound, and the black girl...

So many are running for the job of Manhattan Da that there aren't enough felons to go around.

Every day brings announcements of some lunch, dinner, tea, cocktail party, snack or bagel shop opening. I've done a sitdown with Cy Vance Jr., whom Robert Morgenthau has almost anointed. I attended a breakfast for Leslie Crocker Snyder with her slavishly devoted friends. Now a Richard Aborn fund-raiser.

If only Aborn's limitless in-laws alone vote, he could win. Pia Lindstrom, Ingrid Bergman's daughter, gave a reception. Isabella Rossellini, Pia's half-sister via Bergman's second husband,...