Gene Wilder is known for making movies that offended some people, but this one really rubbed him up the wrong way.

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So why is “Remembering Gene Wilder” so bland? A clue can be found in what Frank told the Chronicle last summer ahead of the film’s screening as the opening night film of the San Francisco ...

Willie Wonka is near and dear to so many of us -- the real life candies also became popular over the years. But here's a ...

1974 was a good year for one of the greatest comedy pairings in cinema history, with Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder ending the year with not one, but two films in the top five. Ten months after the ...

That story is one of many retold about the actor in “Remembering Gene Wilder,” a new documentary about Wilder that, following a run last year on the Jewish film festival circuit, has opened in ...

Here are all of the movies being shown, from a classic Gene Wilder-Harrison Ford Western to multiple Holocaust-themed flicks from French New Wave directors. (JTA) — Turner Classic Movies admits ...

This loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film roles, from his first collaboration with Mel Brooks in The Producers ...

Over the weekend, it was announced that Gene Wilder – the twinkle-eyed, softly-spoken star of films including Willy Wonka, Blazing Saddles and The Producers – had passed away aged 83.

Resembling a young Gene Wilder, Ben Ducoff plays the genial high school teacher, Barry Bernstein, in the madcap indie movie he co-wrote, Yaniv. Directing the film is Ben's friend and colleague, Amnon ...