There always seems to be the chosen few or, really, THE ONE in any movement of film history. With Italy’s Neo-Realist movement it was Bicycle Thieves. New Hollywood will always be identified with the film that started it all, Bonnie and Clyde or, perhaps, The Godfather. Out of the Past seems a perfect illustration of […]
Author: Woodson Hughes
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The 15 Most Offbeat Moments in Oscar History
This year will mark the 88th time the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has given out it annual awards (somewhat affectionately known as Oscar, though why is veiled in mystery). Oscar has its proponents but also its critics. For every fans/critic/historian who may look to the little golden statuette as some mark of […]
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The 20 Most Prolific Directors in Cinema History
Orson Welles and Stanley Kubrick did it 12 times each. Andrei Tarkovsky, Carl Theordore Dreyer and France’s renowned comic director Pierre Etaix managed it about half that many times apiece. Etaix’s inspiration, the great Jacques Tati only got to the number five. Jean Vigo, Charles Laughton and Marlon Brando only pulled it off once each. […]
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30 Classic Movies of World Cinema Every Young Movie Buff Should See
Quite often those wishing to introduce younger generations to films of a more classic period go one, if not two, routes. Firstly, the classic films tend to be those of the older individual’s generation (often this is pure nostalgia for the era, not the art of film). Secondly, the films introduced tend to be those […]
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25 Classic Hollywood Movies Every Young Movie Buff Should See
The landmark 1987 book Cultural Literacy by E.D. Hirsh argued that people should have a comfortable degree of knowledge concerning aspects of general culture which help to enrich and broaden the minds and lives of those who process that knowledge. There are many facets of culture which inform a person’s life and, in the modern […]
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The 20 Best Character Entrances in Cinema History
Film is the most hybrid of art forms, taking ideas and traditions from many sources. Perhaps the medium it owes the most to is the legitimate theater, being another platform for performing expressions of art. One long observed motif of the theater is the tradition of giving the production’s lead or prime featured player a […]