They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for September, 2017
The Best Picture Winners: You Can’t Take It With You (1938)
Oscar’s 90th birthday is just around the corner and to celebrate, every other day from now through March 4th, I will be taking a look at each and every film selected for his top award – the good, the bad and the sometimes not-so deserving. Looking back, it doesn’t seem unreasonable that Frank Capra’s film […]
The Best Picture Winners: The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
Oscar’s 90th birthday is just around the corner and to celebrate, every other day from now through March 4th, I will be taking a look at each and every film selected for his top award – the good, the bad and the sometimes not-so deserving. I am not that far from most people in the […]
The Best Picture Winners: The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Oscar’s 90th birthday is just around the corner and to celebrate, every other day from now through March 4th, I will be taking a look at each and every film selected for his top award – the good, the bad and the sometimes not-so deserving. If you talk to me about bad movies long enough, […]
The Best Picture Winners: Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Oscar’s 90th birthday is just around the corner and to celebrate, every other day from now through March 4th, I will be taking a look at each and every film selected for his top award – the good, the bad and the sometimes not-so deserving. I shouldn’t like Mutiny on the Bounty as much as […]
Victoria and Abdul (2017)
If you’re familiar with the John Madden’s wonderful 1997 historical biopic Mrs. Brown – the story of a friendship between the mourning Queen Victoria and her Scottish horseman – then Stephen Frears’ Victoria and Abdul is likely to either feel like a sequel or a strange remake. The territory is the same. Queen Victoria is […]
The Best Picture Winners: It Happened One Night (1934)
Oscar’s 90th birthday is just around the corner and to celebrate, every other day from now through March 4th, I will be taking a look at each and every film selected for his top award – the good, the bad and the sometimes not-so deserving. One of the most persistent complaints about the voting academy […]
