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Babylon

December 21, 2022

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent f...

Dinner at Eight

December 21, 1933

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, th...

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

November 16, 2017

Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner...

Sweet Bird of Youth

March 20, 1962

Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into t...

The Band Wagon

August 6, 1953

A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop....

A Star Is Born

September 30, 1954

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral....

Veronika Voss

May 12, 1982

In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn...

Ciao! Manhattan

April 18, 1973

Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors Edie Sedgwick’s own self-destructive spiral....

Sweet Bird of Youth

September 30, 1989

Tennessee William’s masterful melodrama about an aging movie star who, appalled by her own image on the screen, flees from her movie premiere and goes into seclusion, becoming entangled with...

After Forty…

December 23, 2024

An actress in her forties is facing family and domestic difficulties and feels that her demand in cinema and theater is decreasing over time. But she doesn't want to accept this....