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Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" turns 50 this year. Adapted for the screen only a few years after its publication, Horton Foote won the Oscar for Best Screenplay (adapted) and Gregory Peck won Best Actor.

See the New York Times article for more information about the celebrations.

The DVD version is available from the Butler Media Res Collection -- call number DVD3805.

Featured Actor

Robert De Niro in Raging Bull (1980) playing Jake Le Motta doing a fine imitation of Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954).

De Niro won the Oscar for Best Actor. Thelma Schoonmaker won the Oscar for Best Film Editing.

Cannes Film Festival -- 2010

Thai film "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" won the coveted Palme d'Or for best picture at the Cannes film festival Sunday.

Cannes Film Festival.

Featured DVD of the Week

Dogs in both featured and supporting roles!

As Good As It Gets

Butler Media Res

DVD0537

Babe

Butler Media -- Offsite

MPDVD00820

Back to the Future: The Complete Trilogy

Butler Media -- Offsite

MPDVD00596

Best in Show

Butler Media

DVD8700

Bolt

Butler Media Res

DVD8164

Bringing Up Baby

Butler Media

DVD9216

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

Butler Media

DVD12572

Lady and the Tramp

Butler Media Res

DVD4554

My Dog Skip

Butler Media Res

DVD0717

Sounder

Butler Media Res

DVD7778

Thin Man

Butler Media Res

DVD3746

Umberto D.

Butler Media

DVD8957

White Dog

Butler Media Res

DVD7779

Wizard of Oz

Butler Media Res
DVD3938

Remembering Lena Horne

A link to her obituary in the New York TImes.

Oscar Noir: 1940s Writing Nominees -- Film Noir

Celebrate film noir!
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be screening 15 film noir classics from the 1940s, all of which were nominated in the writing categories. The screenings run May - August in Los Angeles. No plans to travel to LA -- check them out in Butler.

Title List:

The Maltese Falcon
Shadow of a Doubt
Laura
Double Indemnity
Mildred Pierce
The Killers
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
The Dark Mirror
The Blue Dahlia
The Stranger
Body and Soul
Crossfire
A Double Life
The Kiss of Death
White heat

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Watching the detective.

American Gangster
DVD10708

Bad Lieutenant
DVD12410

Black Dahlia
DVD8946

In the Valley of Elah
DVD6617

Maltese Falcon
DVD5032

Missing
DVD7558

Mr. Moto in Danger Island
DVD5415

Monsieur Hire
DVD6254

Vertigo
DVD3909

Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone)
DVD1927

Thin Man
DVD1421
The Wire -- Series 1
DVD11137

Lynn Redgrave Dies at 67

The New York Times obituary.