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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Metrograph on Sunday and Monday are the rare adaptations that have become their own sacred texts despite the radical surgery performed on the source material. Luchino Visconti’s Ossessione (1943), his ...

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 ...

The 2011 drama Mildred Pierce is based on the popular 1941 book of the same name, written by James M. Cain.