We have reached the final instalment of this series, where every Academy Award winner for Best Picture is ranked within their respective decades. As we have not reached 2020 yet, all of the most recent winners will be combined with the previous decade. Why shouldn’t they be? We have witnessed a resurgence in the integrity […]
This is the sixth examination of every Academy Award for Best Picture winner. Sadly, the Oscar Bait years continue, and you will find the majority of the worst offenders of this phenomenon within these ten years. Epics weren’t as epic as they may have seemed, and some of the experiments here fall as flat as […]
Cinema is regarded as the sum of all arts, and not mistakenly; since its origins, filmmakers strove to enrich their work by looking at other forms of art – poetry, painting, music, and of course, theater. Sometimes the distinction between the latter and cinema is neat, sometimes not; there is always something the two arts […]
In the history of cinema there are many films in which directors take on leading roles themselves, grabbing more attention, and one could claim authorship, through their simultaneous work in front of and behind the camera. For popular movie culture a slew of names are often mentioned when considering what filmmakers balanced these such jobs […]
Nations as diverse as France, Italy, Poland, and Japan have each had a great amount of films released throughout the 70s, masterpieces that shifted the cinematic realm and progressively and defiantly redefined the rules of filmmaking (if there ever were any). Unfortunately, many of these films faced censorship issues and were sometimes banned from many […]
The powerful and tragic effects of psychological trauma truly entered the consciousness of mainstream America as veterans were returning from the Vietnam War. This prompted the American Psychological Association to finally recognize Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as an actual affliction in 1980. Prior to this new diagnosis, terms like “shell shock”, “combat fatigue”, and “hysteria” […]