TV Guide: Maximilian Schell

Listing: The Diary of Anne Frank

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:00:00 -0500

Fri Dec 12 10:00 AM FMC

Listing: End of the Game

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:30:00 -0500

Fri Dec 12 12:30 AM FMC

Listing: Deep Impact

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:30:00 -0500

Sat Dec 6 12:30 PM SHO2e

Video: Black Hole, The -- (Movie Clip) Dr. Reinhardt

TCM — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:43:12 -0500

The crew (Robert Forster, Anthony Perkins, Yvette Mimieux, Ernest Borgnine) comes upon the legendary Dr. Reinhardt (Maximilian Schell) who's apparently named his own robot in The Black Hole, 1979.

Video: Festival In Cannes

iTunes — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:36:09 -0500

Acclaimed filmmaker Henry Jaglom (Deja Vu, Eating) and an all-star cast give movie lovers a reason to celebrate with this romantic comedy set at the world's most famous film festival. Each year, thousands flock to the Cannes Film Festival, wildly chasing fame, fortune and each other against the picturesque background of the French Riviera. Director Jaglom captures all the magic and mayhem as he follows an intriguing cast of characters a beautiful but aging movie icon (Anouk Aim e), her ex-husband (Maximilian Schell), an actress (Greta Scacchi) trying to sell her first script, a high-powered producer (Ron Silver), an up-and-coming ingenue (Jenny Gabrielle), and a fast-talking, fast-walking entrepreneur (Zack Norman). How their lives and loves entangle make for an unforgettable journey through the very heart of the entertainment world.

Video: The Odessa File

Amazon Video on Demand — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:37:59 -0500

The year is 1963. The place: Hamburg, Germany. An elderly Jewish man commits suicide, leaving a diary which falls into the hands of a freelance newspaperman, Peter Miller (Jon Voight). The diary documents the unspeakable crimes of cruelty, torture and mass murder perpetrated by SS Captain Eduard Roschmann (Maximilian Schell), commandant of the notorious wartime death camp at Riga, Latvia. Miller launches a personal manhunt to track down Roschmann, an investigation that leads him into the very heart of ODESSA, a powerful secret organization formed by the SS to protect and re-establish its fugitive members throughout the world. When Miller finds Roschmann, he learns that the former Nazi is now the leader of a weaponry complex of international, strategic consequence.

Video: Maximilian Schell - (A TCM Featurette)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:35:17 -0500

Maximilian Schell talks about winning his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961).

Video: Maximilian Schell - (A TCM Featurette)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:46:18 -0500

Best Actor Maximilian Schell describes what it was like to win the Oscar for his performance in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961).

Video: My Sister Maria

iTunes — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:27:47 -0500

Maria Schell - a beautiful and talented girl born to an exceptional family of artists, a renowned actress and darling of the public - enjoyed an unparalleled career for a German-speaking actress. Despite a glamorous acting career with over seventy feature film appearances alongside such legends as Oskar Werner, Gary Cooper and Marcello Mastroianni, and numerous awards and nominations, Maria Schell's life was filled with romances, loneliness, unrequited love, disappointments, debt, depression, suicide attempts, and an unwillingness to grow old gracefully. Her brother and confidant, actor/director/co-writer Maximilian Schell, blends interviews with staged scenes in this examination of their personal relationship, expressing his great respect for her lifework and the regret he felt at her later failures.

Video: Telling Lies In America

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:30:33 -0500

Karchy Jonas (Brad Renfro) was born in Hungary and immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio in the early 1960s where he felt adrift in a strange sea of American culture. Jonas tries to fit in at the Catholic high school he attends but finds himself a laughing stock. At home, his stern father (Maximilian Schell) insists that he adhere to traditional Hungarian ways. Karchy's only respite is the rock & roll music he adores. A year before he arrived, flashy, failed disc jockey Billy Magic (Kevin Bacon) rolled into town, found a job at WHK and became the host of the High School Hall of Fame contest, something that Karchy decides he must win so he too can be cool and therefore impress his lovely classmate Diney (Calista Flockhart). Eventually, he does win and before long has made friends with Billy. The DJ proves to be a real pal and pays Karchy a C-note a week to run a few errands and do odd jobs for him. Some of those tasks involve taking money from promoters. When not working, Billy is introducing Karchy to life's wild sid

Video: Left Luggage

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:19:42 -0500

Actor Jeroen Krabbe made his directorial debut with this Dutch-Belgian-U.S. drama examining anti-Semitic attitudes in 1972 Antwerp. Free-spirited 20-year-old student Chaja (Laura Fraser) has a long-haired revolutionary lover and sometimes visits her parents (Maximilian Schell, Marianne Sagebrecht), both concentration camp survivors. Evading eviction from her apartment, Chaja finds work as a nanny with the Kalmans, an Orthodox Hassidic family. Initially rebelling against the rigid traditions, she eventually comes to terms with their way of life as she teaches their four-year-old to follow his father's doctrines. Adapted from Carl Friedman's novel {-The Shovel and the Loom}, this film was shown at the 1998 {~Berlin Film Festival}. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide.

Video: Krakatoa East Of Java

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:35:16 -0500

Volcano is the reissue title of the muddled disaster flick Krakatoa: East of Java. The name change was reportedly put into effect after thousands of filmgoers noted publicly that Krakatoa is west of Java. As might be expected, the story takes place in 1883, when the long-dormant volcano at Krakatoa erupted with A-bomb force. Since everyone knows what's coming, the filmmakers try to stir up suspense with a gratuitous subplot involving ship's-captain Maximilian Schell and his mutinous crew (a similar plot device had been used in a previous dramatization of the Krakatoa incident, 1953's Fair Wind to Java). The climactic special effects are spectacular enough to make the script, and the all-star cast (including Diane Baker, Brian Keith, Rossano Brazzi, and Sal Mineo), seem utterly superfluous. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: Odessa File, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:06:13 -0500

The Odessa File is set in Hamburg in the winter of 1963. Jon Voight plays Peter Miller, a German reporter who is investigating the whereabouts of missing Nazi war criminals. After reading the diary of a Holocaust survivor who has recently committed suicide, Miller goes on the trail of in-hiding SS officer Eduard Roschmann (Maximilian Schell). The reporter finds his investigation blocked by members of a secretive group called Odessa. With the help of Israeli activists, Miller persists in his search. Schell's sister Maria also appears in The Odessa File as Miller's mother, the widow of a German soldier. Based on a nailbiting novel by Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File is highlighted by the exquisitely Teutonic score of Andrew Lloyd Webber. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: Festival In Cannes

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:55:08 -0500

The romance, intrigue, and industry politics of the world's biggest film festival -- which is also the world's biggest film marketplace -- provides the backdrop for this typically understated comedy-drama from director Henry Jaglom. Alice Palmer (Greta Scacchi) is a well-known American actress who has written a screenplay that she'd like to direct, and she arrives a the Cannes Film Festival to look for investors. Alice has her eyes on veteran star Millie Marquand (Anouk Aimee) to play the lead, but while Millie loves the script, she's been offered a better-paying supporting role in an upcoming Tom Hanks project. Meanwhile, Millie's former husband Viktor Kovner (Maximilian Schell) is a director fallen on hard times who is trying to scare up financing for his own film. Producer Rick Yorkin (Ron Silver) wouldn't mind leaving Millie in the lurch if it meant landing Alice for his next project. Kaz (Zack Norman) is a less-than-scrupulous producer hoping to put some sort of package deal together. And Blue (Jenny Gab

Video: John Carpenter's Vampires

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:19:47 -0500

John Carpenter directed this horror-western, adapted from the novel {-Vampire$} by John Steakley, illuminating the pivotal figure of fearless vampire killer Jack Crow (James Woods), who lost his parents to the creatures. In a remote New Mexico location, Crow and his team, protected with chain-mail fang shields on their throats, blast away at a vampire nest, haul them out with the Jeep's winch, and then celebrate by pulling on other wenches at the Sun God Motel. Their revels are soon brought to an end by king vampire Valek (Thomas Ian Griffith), who became invulnerable after a bungled inverse exorcism during the 14th Century. Amid the motel mayhem, Jack escapes, along with his buddy Montoya (Daniel Baldwin) and hooker Katrina (Sheryl Lee). Since Katrina was already bitten by Valek, they use her as a decoy to locate Valek. Cardinal Alba (Maximilian Schell) sends padre Guiteau (Tim Guinee) to join Crow, who is unaware that Montoya has been bitten by Katrina. The hunt begins. Director Carpenter composed the film'

Video: The Odessa File

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:48:49 -0500

Video: The Odessa File

CinemaNow — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:44:01 -0500

A German journalist attempts to track down Nazi war criminals in this top-notch suspense thriller starring Academy Award? winners Jon Voight and Maximilian Schell.