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Best Picture

Which Best Picture Do People Actually Still Like?

March 8, 2023March 12, 2023 Stephen Macaulay 1 Comment Bob Fosse, Cabaret, Citizen Kane, Forrest Gump, Francis Ford Coppola, Gone With The Wind, How Green Was My Valley, James Cameron, John Avildsen, John Ford, Rain Man, Robert Zemeckis, Rocky, Sylvester Stallone, The Godfather, The Silence of the Lambs, Titanic, Tom Cruise

Movies are like a box of chocolates

News of the World

‘News Of The World’

December 28, 2020January 5, 2021 Neal Pollack 4 Comments Django Unchained, Helena Zengel, John Ford, News of the World, Paul Greengrass, The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, Tom Hanks

Everyone has PTSD in this Tom Hanks Western about Reconstruction in Texas

Political

FILM Politics Uncategorized

Seven Movies About Living Under Political Conflict

September 21, 2020September 24, 2020 Matt Hanson 0 Comments Black Girl, David Straithairn, Edward R. Murrow, George Clooney, Good Night and Good Luck, Howard Zinn, Ingrid Bergman, Jimmy Stewart, John Carpenter, John Ford, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Ousmane Sembene, Roberto Rossellini, Rome: Open City, Rowdy Roddy Piper, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, The People Speak, They Live, Yves Montand, Z

Nothing we’re going through is new

Marty Vs. Marvel

November 14, 2019June 1, 2023 Ben Schwartz 5 Comments 1927's The Jazz Singer, 1983 Cannes Film Festival, Adam McKay, Apocalypse Now, Billy Wilder, Bringing up Baby, Cameron Crowe, David Carr, David O. Selznick, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Capra, Henry Jaglom, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Ken Loach, Kevin Feige, King of Comedy, Martin Scorsese, Marvel, Marvel movies, Midnight Cowboy, Mike Nichols, Orson Welles, Raganok, Raging Bull, Sergio Leone, Taika Waititi, Taxi Driver, The Avengers, The Godfather, The New Yorker's Richard Brody, The Searchers, The Sopranos, Thor: Ragnarok, X-Rated Best Picture Winner

Old-Fogey Hollywood Directors Have Always Hated the Next Wave

31 Days of Oscar–Week Three

February 14, 2019February 14, 2019 Lani Gonzalez 0 Comments 12 Angry Men, Cool Hand Luke, Frank Capra, Gary Cooper, Gene Kelly, George C. Scott, Grand Hotel, High Noon, John Ford, John Wayne, Lana Turner, Maureen O'Hara, Mike Nichols, Paul Newman, The Day Of The Dolphin, The Quiet Man, The Three Musketeers, You Can't Take It With You

Lots of Great Movies, and also ‘The Day Of The Dolphin’

The world moves on

CLASSICS CREATORS Directors FILM

Stepin Fetchit Goes To War

December 6, 2018December 6, 2018 Ben Schwartz 0 Comments Birth Of A Nation, Cavalcade, John Ford, Reginald Berkeley, Stepin Fetchit, The World Moves On

In 1934, Director John Ford Reluctantly Confronted Jim Crow