In this clip, Harrison Ford pays tribute to composer John Williams for his scores for the Indiana Jones films, as Williams is honored by the American Film Institute.
Walter Matthau pays tribute to his friend and frequent co-star Jack Lemmon at the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony for Lemmon in 1988. Lemmon's acceptance speech follows.
Retro movie historian Jonathan Baak looks back on the 1974 disaster blockbuster "The Towering Inferno" and provides interesting insights into the making of the film.
In an article for IMDB, Thomas Doherty presents a fascinating look at how Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic "Psycho" changed the patterns of behavior of moviegoers. Doherty points out that from the inception of cinema, audiences "dropped in" to movie theaters in a haphazard fashion, often after the feature presentation was well under way. They would then stay through the start of the film until they got to the scene they saw when they entered the theater. Studios and theater chains launched campaigns to convince movie fans that this behavior was self-defeating. Not only was a film often incomprehensible when seen under such circumstances, it also affected appreciation of the artistic manner in which movies were constructed. However, the campaigns flopped- until Alfred Hitchcock personally oversaw the marketing campaign for "Psycho" in 1960. This extended to the film's classic trailer which didn't reveal a single frame of the film itself. Click here to read how the master director successfully convinced moviegoers to become more sophisticated in enjoying the cinematic experience.
Here's an unusual trailer for the 1962 classic chiller "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", which revived the careers of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford even though Jack Warner was skeptical about starring both of "those two old broads" in a new film. Davis and Crawford may have loathed each other personally but they both brought out the best in the other on the big screen. The trailer is carefully crafted to hint at the macabre nature of the plot without giving away any details.
