Like many film school graduates, I know the name Mildred Pierce because of the 1945 screen adaptation of Joseph M. Cain’s novel, starring Joan Crawford. Understanding the film’s place in cinema ...

A remarkable thing (and there are many) about the HBO miniseries “Mildred Pierce”: The way it breathes. This five-part, 5 1/2-hour adaptation of the 1941 James M. Cain novel is an unhurried period ...

HBO's new miniseries Mildred Pierce, launching tonight, shares a title with the 1945 film that won Joan Crawford her only Oscar and is based on the same James M. Cain novel. But what director Todd ...

scored a magnificent coup with his adaptation of James M. Cain’s "Mildred Pierce," a 1941 novel that was made into a noirish 1945 melodrama for which Joan Crawford won an Oscar. Haynes and his ...

With her emotive style and melodramatic flourishes, Joan Crawford burned an indelible image into the brains of those who saw her play the tough dame in the 1945 noir classic Mildred Pierce. But while ...

At the start of the fall TV season, HBO gave us the best new series of the year with Boardwalk Empire, which was set in the Prohibition era in Atlantic City, N.J. This Sunday, HBO launches an ...

Redlands’ A.K. Smiley Public Library will continue its Southern California in Film series Saturday, Sept. 20, with a screening of the 1945 film “Mildred Pierce.” The unrated film will be shown 2 p.m.

HBO is famous for taking great pride in its groundbreaking series – The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Sex and the City, Boardwalk Empire. As the cable network puts it – it’s not television, it’s HBO. So ...

Kate Winslet has been lined up to star in a miniseries adaptation of James M. Cain's Mildred Pierce, reports Variety. The Oscar winner's latest project is expected to be picked up by HBO, but no deal ...

Melodrama is a loaded word, conjuring silent-film villains tying pigtailed girls to railroad tracks. Or black-and-white "weepies" whose music crescendoes as Bette Davis or Greta Garbo face The Worst ...