Peter Falk
1927 - 2011Falk was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for Murder, Inc. (1960) and Pocketful of Miracles (1961). He is also known for his collaborations with filmmaker and actor John Cassavetes in films such as: Husbands (1970), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Opening Night (1977), Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky (1976) and the Columbo episode: Étude in Black (1972). Falk's other film roles include It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), The Great Race (1965), Anzio (1968), Murder by Death (1976), The Cheap Detective (1978), The In-Laws (1979), The Princess Bride (1987), Wings of Desire (1987), The Player (1992), and Next (2007).
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Bette Davis
Bette Davis, Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda hosts the AFI Life Achievement Awards ceremony honoring Bette Davis featuring clips from her films and the reminiscences of many co-workers.
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Bette Davis
Columbo
Peter Falk
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
Columbo
The Princess Bride
Rob Reiner
Cary Elwes, Robin Wright
In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't stop these true lovebirds from triumphing.
The Princess Bride
A Woman Under the Influence
John Cassavetes
Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk
Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extremely volatile behavior convinces Nick that she poses a danger to their family and decides to commit her to an institution for six months. Alone with a trio of kids to raise on his own, he awaits her return, which holds more than a few surprises.
A Woman Under the Influence
Prescription: Murder
Richard Irving
Peter Falk, Gene Barry
In Columbo's first outing, a psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant.
Prescription: Murder
Wings of Desire
Wim Wenders
Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.
Wings of Desire
Anything for John
Doug Headline, Dominique Cazenave
John Cassavetes, Seymour Cassel
An intimate portrait of actor-writer-director John Cassavetes and a loving tribute to his genius for studying and depicting the human character. In-depth, candid interviews with his wife and muse Gena Rowlands as well as his most trusted friends and co-workers like Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel, etc. Clips from Cassavetes' greatest films, and many rare photos illustrate this touching documentary.
Anything for John
Opening Night
John Cassavetes
Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on.
Opening Night
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Frank Capra
Marty Pasetta
Frank Capra, James Stewart
В 1982 году Американский институт кинематографии представил свою 10-ю премию за достижения в жизни режиссера Фрэнка Капра на мероприятии, организованном актером Джеймсом Стюартом, в котором приняли участие семья Капра, а также актеры Клаудетт Кольбер, Бетти Дэвис и Питер Фальк и оператор Джозеф Уолкер.
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Frank Capra
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
Ronnie Johnson
Carl Reiner, Jonathan Winters
A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Stanley Kramer
Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Char·ac·ter
Drago Sumonja
Dabney Coleman, Harry Dean Stanton
A raw and candid dialogue about the life and craft of acting between longtime colleagues and friends Dabney Coleman, Peter Falk, Charles Grodin, Mark Rydell, Harry Dean Stanton and Sydney Pollack. Drago Sumonja's document takes us into the hearts, minds, and living rooms of some of America's greatest storytellers.
Char·ac·ter
My Darling Vivian
Matt Riddlehoover
Johnny Cash, Reese Witherspoon
The story of Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash's first wife and the mother of his four daughters. Includes never-before-seen footage and photographs of Johnny Cash and Rosanne Cash, as well as footage featuring Reese Witherspoon, Joaquin Phoenix, Tim Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg, John C. Reilly and many more.
My Darling Vivian
