Film Preview: Bring Them Down (2025)
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TB #4: The Good, The Bad and the Honorary Oscar
The academy this summer, along with everything else it announced, stated that the Honorary Awards will no longer be a part of the Oscar ceremony come February. Then, this week, they announced the FOUR Honorary Award winners. They will receive their awards at an untelevised ceremony in November. This is of course a double-edged sword.…
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The DVD Report #121
Noble, self-sacrificing schoolteachers have been a movie staple in films for decades. In the 1930s we had Goodbye, Mr. Chips; in the 1940s, Cheers for Miss Bishop; in the 1950s, Blackboard Jungle and Good Morning, Miss Dove! and in the 1960s, To Sir, With Love. While two major films of the late 1960s, Rachel, Rachel…
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1974 at the Oscars
1974 was a big year for Paramount. It had the early Oscar favorite, Roman Polanksi’s Chinatown which opened in June, and the year’s most anticipated film, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part II, which opened at year end. It also had some of the year’s other top films including Sidney Lumet’s all star cast version…
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R.I.P. Patrick Swayze
After a lengthy battle with terminal cancer, the actor who came to fame starring in Dirty Dancing has died at age 57. Until I can get a Tribute page up for him, see the following link for a full obituary. Variety Obituary.
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1973 at the Oscars
The Exorcist or not The Exorcist was pretty much the way the 1973 Oscars went. The blockbuster horror film was the year’s most anticipated event and the end product did not disappoint, but could a horror film win the Best Picture Oscar? It had never happened before. The National Board of Review snubbed it altogether,…
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Oscar News: Honorary Oscar Recipients Named
Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman, Gordon Willis and John Calley receive honorarium awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The announcement left most of us Oscar fans a bit saddened that we wouldn’t get to see these winners give their speeches live. At the same time, we’re ecstatic that they’ve increased the number…
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1972 at the Oscars
1972 was always going to be the year of Cabaret, which opened in February, and The Godfather, which opened in March. It’s unusual to have one film, let alone two, that open early in the year which dominate Oscar speculation but this was one such year. The National Board of Review started awards season off…
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The DVD Report #120
Criterion has made a lot of classic film lovers happy with the release of That Hamilton Woman, Alexander Korda’s sumptuous 1941 film about the scandalous adulterous love affair of Britain’s Napoleonic War hero, Lord Horatio Nelson and Emma, Lady Hamilton. A favorite of many, Winston Churchill claimed to have seen the film more than eighty…
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1971 at the Oscars
1971 continued the Oscar trend of nominating two bold, innovative films (A Clockwork Orange; The Last Picture Show), two decidedly old-fashioned entertainments (Fiddler on the Roof; Nicholas and Alexandra) and one somewhere in-between (The French Connection). The New York Film Critics led off awards season with a Best Picture nod to Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork…
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1970 at the Oscars
1970 was somewhat of a replay of 1969 at the Oscars, albeit one with a different outcome. Again there were two critically acclaimed films embraced younger audiences and Academy members (Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H and Bob Rafelson’s Five Easy Pieces), two by the older crowd (Franklin J. Schaffner’s Patton and George Seaton’s Airport) and one squarely…
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1969 at the Oscars
Oscar said goodbye to the turbulent sixties with a curious batch of Best Picture nominees – the new, bold and daring were represented by Midnight Cowboy and Z, the old-fashioned and safe by Anne of the Thousand Days and Hello, Dolly! and the middle-of-the-road by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Now that the Hollywood…
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The DVD Report #119
Tony Gilroy has been a busy man this year. He not only wrote and directed Duplicity (reviewed here last week) but co-wrote this week’s top DVD release, State of Play, as well. Kevin Macdonald’s film version of the 2003 British TV miniseries of the same name crosses the Atlantic, moving the location of the original…
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1968 at the Oscars
1968 was a year of surprises at the Oscars. Early on, Paul Newman, who had failed to win any of the four times he was nominated for Best Actor looked like he might finally win as Best Director for Rachel, Rachel. He had won the New York Film Critics Award and the Golden Globe and…
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1967 at the Oscars
The 1967 Oscar ceremony had to be postponed a week due to the assassination of Martin Luther King. Appropriately the winning film was In the Heat of the Night about a black detective from Philadelphia who joins forces with a redneck sheriff to solve a murder in the deep South. The Sidney Poitier-Rod Steiger starrer,…
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The DVD Report #118
I’m of two minds about Duplicity, the new crime thriller from Tony Gilroy, the long time screenwriter who won writing and directing Oscar nominations for his directorial debut Michael Clayton. On the one hand, it’s nice to have smart, witty dialogue delivered in high style by a cast of gifted actors. On the other hand,…
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