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Friday, July 18, 2008

The TV hits that no one watches

Entertainment | By Scott Collins | July 18, 2008
Most television viewers know AMC, if they know it at all, as a repository of old Hollywood movies. Read more
 

Saturday, November 15, 2003

AMC Channel Sues Time Warner Cable

Business | November 15, 2003
AMC, the classic movie channel, said it sued Time Warner Inc.’s cable unit for $250 million for trying to terminate its contract. Read more
 

Thursday, March 13, 2003

AMC Program to Do Close-Up on Hollywood

Business | By Brian Lowry | March 13, 2003
The AMC cable network will examine the inner workings of Hollywood in a weekly series with hosts Peter Guber, a producer, and Variety Editor Peter Bart. Read more
 

Sunday, July 21, 2002

No Looking at You, Kid

Entertainment | By Susan King | July 21, 2002
American Movie Classics observed its 10th anniversary by issuing a colorful poster to celebrate “Ten Years of Dedication to the Classics.” Read more
 

Sunday, December 2, 2001

Top-Secret Productions

Entertainment | By Dana Calvo | December 2, 2001
As Hollywood finds itself in the midst of framing a wartime relationship with the government in a post-Sept. Read more
 

Tuesday, January 2, 2001

Behind the Glamour of 1930s Hollywood in ‘The Lot’

Entertainment | By Susan King | January 2, 2001
American Movie Classics’ first series, “Remember WENN,” was a sweet, affectionateportrait of the golden age of radio. Read more
 

Friday, June 16, 2000

Gaining Ground in Film’s Reel War

Entertainment | By Susan King | June 16, 2000
The statistics are still sobering–half the movies made before 1950 no longer exist, having been lost, destroyed or having deteriorated beyond repair. Read more
 

Monday, October 25, 1999

A Horror Movie, Dismembered

Entertainment | By Victoria Looseleaf | October 25, 1999
Good horror is like good sex, says Roger Corman, producer and occasional director of such cult classics as “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1956) and the original “The Little Shop of Horrors” (1960). Read more
 

Friday, August 6, 1999

John Ford’s ‘Valley’ Is Green Again

Entertainment | By Susan King | August 6, 1999
In the years since John Ford’s 1941 classic “How Green Was My Valley” first swept up audiences with its sentimental story of a Welsh mining family, decay and age had settled in. Read more
 

Monday, April 26, 1999

Taking Full Measure of Hollywood Glamour

Entertainment | By Claudine Ise | April 26, 1999
What do you get when you ask the brash production team behind VH1’s The RuPaul Show” and HBO’s envelope-pushing 1995 documentary “Shock Video” to create an original series about fashion for American Movie Classics, the 24-hour cable network devoted to Hollywood’s “Golden Age” of filmmaking? Read more
 

Monday, November 17, 1997

Rummaging Through Fox’s Vaults

Entertainment | By Susan King | November 17, 1997
For decades, discarded musical numbers and outtakes starring such legends as Alice Faye, Betty Grable and Shirley Temple have been languishing in the vaults at 20th Century Fox. Read more
 

Thursday, October 2, 1997

Classic Film Festival Schedule

Entertainment | October 2, 1997
Schedule for the American Movie Classics Film Preservation Festival: Today and Friday: Film Noir–Tough Guys “The Killers”–9 p.m. Read more
 

Save That Movie! - After a slow start, AMC’s Film Preservation Festival has raised $1.3 million. The fifth gala begins tonight with “The Killers.”

Entertainment | By Susan King | October 2, 1997
It was a bit of a risk four years ago when American Movie Classics decided to launch an annual movie festival to raise funds for film preservation. Read more
 
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