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Everything Old Is New Again: 1944 at the Oscars
The last time Oscar had ten nominees for Best Picture was way back in 1943. The nominees that year were Casablanca; For Whom the Bell Tolls; Heaven Can Wait; The Human Comedy; In Which We Serve; Madame Curie; The More the Merrier; The Ox-Bow Incident; The Song of Bernadette and Watch on the Rhine, a
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TB #1: More of the Same?
It seems to me like Wesley could not have picked a better time to start this new blog than right now, the week that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces the biggest change to the Oscar set up since at least 2002, if not before. 2002 was the year that the Academy
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OG #3: The Academy Awards: Top Ten Edition
As everyone in the Oscar world has already heard and spent hours analyzing, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided yesterday to go back to a 1930s/40s model of honoring ten films as the Best Picture nominees of the year. I’m of mixed opinion. First, I’m afraid more limited-quality pictures will make it
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OG #2: The Film Generations
There are more than a dozen definitions of the word “generation”. Most of them are a purely academic differences, but the decision to call these blogs “The Film Generations” is manifold. Contributing to this blog are people from very different generational backgrounds. Whereas Peter is more of the Baby Boomer era, I’m more akin to
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The DVD Report #109
It won the National Board of Review award for Best Film of 2008 and numerous international film awards and was an early Oscar favorite for the triple crown of Best Animated Feature, Best Documentary and Best Foreign Film. Alas, Ari Folman’s Israeli film Waltz With Bashir ended up being nominated only in the latter category,
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OG #1: Welcome to The Oscar Guy Blogs
While it isn’t much yet and we’re still in the process of getting things set up, this will be a primary spot for new and fun information regarding the Oscars, movies, other awards and a myriad other things that pop into our minds. Please be patient as we get things set up.
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The DVD Report #108
No less than three of 1959’s Best Picture Oscar nominees were about the indomitability of the human spirit. Two of them, William Wyler’s Ben-Hur and Fred Zinnemann’s The Nun’s Story, won the lion’s share of the year’s awards, yet it is the third, George Stevens’ The Diary of Anne Frank, that has increased in reputation
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Review: Push (2009)
Push Rating Director Paul McGuigan Screenplay David Bourla Length 111 min. Starring Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Djimon Hounsou, Camilla Belle, Neil Jackson, Corey Stoll, Scott Michael Campbell, Maggie Siff, Cliff Curtis, Ming-Na, Nate Mooney MPAA Rating PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, brief strong language, smoking and a scene of teen drinking. Buy/Rent
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Review: Up (2009)
Up Rating Director Pete Docter, Bob Peterson Screenplay Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Thomas McCarthy Length 96 min. Starring Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, Bob Peterson, Delroy Lindo, Jerome Ranft, John Ratzenberger MPAA Rating PG for some peril and action. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review When you see the Pixar name associated with a film,
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The DVD Report #107
One hundred and twenty hours of film were recorded and eight hours of it were put on screen in the final product through its multiple screen images in the “you-are-there” documentary, Woodstock. Woodstockthe film was as remarkable an achievement as the three day celebration of music, love and mud it documents. Michael Wadleigh’s box office
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The DVD Report #106
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet reunite eleven years after Titanic. No crowd pleaser this time out, Revolutionary Road is a bleak melodrama about discontented suburbanites in the 1950s. Richard Yates’ novel met with critical acclaim when it was published in 1961, but was not a commercial success. Indeed, none of the writer’s seven published novels
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The DVD Report #105
Paramount has released three more films in its Centennial Collection. As with previous releases, these are re-mastered editions of previously released DVDs with tons of extras. Initial reviews of John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance in May 1962, ranged from respectful to indifferent. It wasn’t until the 1970s when Ford was dead and
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Review: Angels & Demons (2009)
Angels & Demons Rating Director Ron Howard Screenplay David Koepp, Akiva Goldsman (Novel: Dan Brown) Length 138 min. Starring Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgard, Pierfrancesco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Thure Lindhardt, David Pasquesi, Cosimo Fusco MPAA Rating PG-13 for sequences of violence, disturbing images and thematic material. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack
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Review: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine Rating Director Gavin Hood Screenplay David Benioff, Skip Woods Length 107 min. Starring Hugh Jackman, Live Schreiber, Danny Huston, Will i Am, Lynn Collins, Kevin Durand, Dominic Monaghan, Taylor Kitsch, Daniel Henney, Ryan Reynolds, Scott Adkins, Tim Pocock MPAA Rating PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, and some partial nudity.
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Review: Star Trek (2009)
Star Trek Rating Director J.J. Abrams Screenplay Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman Length 127 min. Starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, Bruce Greenwood, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Ben Cross, Winona Ryder, Chris Hemsworth, Jennifer Morrison, Faran Tahir, Clifton Collins Jr. MPAA Rating PG-13 for sci-fi action and
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