8. Mediterraneo (Raise the Red Lantern) – 1991 Sometimes its hard to second guess the rulings of the Academy. One such time came in 1991 when the foreign language film Oscar went to Italy’s entry that year, Mediterraneo. This film, which had really flown under the radar up until its win, was a sweet natured […]
Author: Woodson Hughes
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The 10 Most Controversial Choices of Oscar Best Foreign Language Film
When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded in 1928, its primary goal was to add a bit of prestige and luster to the motion picture business….the Hollywood movie business. While it is, of course, certain that those creating the organization knew that there was a world of film making outside of […]
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10 Oscar Best Picture Winners That Are Unfairly Maligned
The use of ultimates can be a dangerous thing. Calling anything or anyone something that generally ends in the suffix est, or some variation thereof, is almost like a call to arms. There will inevitably be someone(s) else who will assert that the item or person under the magnifying glass of being the best, the […]
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10 Highly Influential Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
Film history is full of films which stick in the memory, good or bad, but is also (perhaps even more so) full of films which seem to be remembered and live on, if that is the right term, as what may be referred to as “text book classics”. This term simply means that while these […]
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10 Overlooked Movie Masterpieces Made By Great Directors
One of the things which drives to craziness those who don’t subscribe to the auteur theory, the one which states that the director must be the “author” and prime mover of the film, is the fact that the practitioners of the theory, by implication if not implicitly, insist that any film by a film maker […]
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10 Great Movie Classics You’ve Probably Never Seen
It’s a bit hard to believe that. in a world with so many bad films, a good film can be overlooked or forgotten, especially if it was created by first rate artists, but it does happen. Sometimes film makers go out of fashion and even their best works can be swept aside. Sometimes a film […]