Pat Dowell

Jerry Lewis performs in Paris in 1976. Lewis, who appeared in dozens of films throughout his career, was perhaps nowhere more critically acclaimed than in France, where he earned the country's highest civilian honor.

Jerry Lewis, Comic Icon And Titan Of Telethons, Dies At 91

Lewis, whose comedic duo with Dean Martin launched him to the peak of showbiz, starred and directed in dozens of films. He was perhaps just as famous for his charity work fighting muscular dystrophy.

Film Unveils Underpinnings Of Mass Killings In Indonesia

Pat Dowell

The film The Act of Killing is the most talked about movie of the year. It's a film that is both fiction and nonfiction. Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer talked to the old men in charge of the death squads in Indonesia in the 1960s that killed somewhere between 500,000 to 2 million civilians in the name of thwarting communism.

Poland's Holland, Exploring Holocaust History Again

Pat Dowell

Poland's official Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film is director Agnieszka Holland's third film set during the Holocaust. Holland discusses characters with contradictions and why this story compelled her to revisit a subject she had decided not to return to.

Stan VanDerBeek: Film On The Cutting Edge

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The legendary experimental filmmaker's work is the subject of a career-spanning retrospective at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston. VanDerBeek merged collage-style filmmaking with new technology throughout his career.

'Persian Cats' Exposes Repression Of Musicians In Iran

Pat Dowell

No One Knows About Persian Cats tells the story of Iranian musicians trying to put together a band in a country where heavy metal, rock and hip-hop are illegal. The film won two prizes at last year's Cannes International Film Festival, and opens in this week in the U.S.

Leroy Anderson: Master of the Miniature

Pat Dowell

The Boston-based composer is remembered, 100 years after his birth, for a string of three-minute pops-concert classics such as "Sleigh Ride," "The Typewriter" and "The Syncopated Clock."

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John Huston, Hollywood's Human Element

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Filmmaker John Huston -- born 100 years ago Saturday, on Aug. 5, 1906 -- made some of cinema's most enduring classics, among them The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.