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Buddy Holly Story The (1978)

Buddy Holly Story The (1978)

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Buddy Holly Story The (1978) This above average if fictionalized biopic earned Gary Busey (in the title role) his only Oscar recognition (to date) a Best Actor nomination. Joe Renzetti (who appears as a violinist) who received his only Academy recognition (so far) won the Oscar for his Score; he adapted Holly’s terrific leading edge (at the time) Rock n’ Roll music. The film’s Sound also received a nomination; it was also the [...]
Ocean’s Eleven (1960)

Ocean’s Eleven (1960)

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Ocean’s Eleven (1960) Lewis Milestone produced and directed this original (and highly successful) heist picture which featured an all-star cast headlined by the Rat Pack: Frank Sinatra Dean Martin Sammy Davis Jr. Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop as well as Angie Dickinson and Shirley MacLaine (the latter in an uncredited cameo). Its screenplay was written by Harry Brown and Charles Lederer from a story by George Clayton Johnson and Jack [...]
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) For directing (this) his first film Mike Nichols earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. In fact virtually everyone involved in this essential drama including each of its credited actors received an Oscar nomination. Lead Elizabeth Taylor (BUtterfield 8 (1960)) won her second statuette on the last of her five Best Actress nominations and Sandy Dennis took home the gold for Supporting [...]
Swing Time (1936)

Swing Time (1936)

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Swing Time (1936) One of the best Fred (Astaire) & Ginger (Rogers) musicals (with Top Hat (1935) being the best in my opinion). Astaire (whose character flips a coin that makes him ‘Lucky’ also his nickname) misses his wedding to Betty Furness and then must prove he’s worth enough money to marry her. So he goes to New York with a friend (Victor Moore) in tow where he meets a dance instructor (Rogers) who’s been dating [...]
APOLLO 13 (1995)

Apollo 13 (1995)

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Apollo 13 (1995) This dramatic retelling of a real-life near tragedy of the titled space mission (the third such flight intended to land men on the Moon) for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (aka NASA) and indeed for our Nation is so skillfully executed that even knowing the outcome – a successful rescue of the three thought-to-be doomed astronauts: James Lovell (played by Tom Hanks) Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and [...]
TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942)

To Be or Not to Be (1942)

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To Be or Not to Be (1942) An hilarious satire produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch from the story by Melchior Lengyel (Ninotchka (1939)). Jack Benny and Carole Lombard (her last film) star as the leaders of a Polish acting troupe that works to foil the Nazis during World War II in occupied Warsaw. The actors themselves are of the over-the-top variety so part of the comedy is in the portrayal of the Nazis as buffoons who can be fooled by such [...]
Dial M for Murder (1954)

Dial M for Murder (1954)

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Dial M for Murder (1954) Filmed in 3-D though released after the craze had died down this thriller from Alfred Hitchcock is the first of three consecutive films in which the director used Grace Kelly as his female lead. Ray Milland brilliantly portrays a man jealous of his wealthy wife’s affections for another (Robert Cummings) so he plots to have her murdered. In addition to Milland’s chilling performance John Williams does an [...]
ACADEMY AWARDS – SUPPORTING ACTRESS CATEGORY

Academy Awards – Supporting Actress Category

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Academy Awards – Supporting Actress Category I thought it might be appropriate to examine the history of the Supporting Actress category which was first awarded in 1937 to recognize performances in films that were released in 1936. Gale Sondergaard was the first to receive this Oscar for her role as a wicked housekeeper that blackmails her way to a position of prominence as Claude Rains’s wife with her knowledge of the illegitimate [...]
TORRENT (1926)

Torrent (1926)

August 29, 2014 // 1 Comment

Torrent (1926) The title refers to a flood that occurs in the small town where most of the film’s action takes place. It draws the two romantic leads closer and the special effects are pretty good given the time the film was made. This Greta Garbo silent drama her first American (MGM) film also stars Ricardo Cortez as the son of a domineering mother played by Martha Mattox. The wealthy matriarch Dona Bernarda Brull (Mattox) is upset about [...]
The Falcon and the Co-eds (1943)

The Falcon and the Co-eds (1943)

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The Falcon and the Co-eds (1943) This seventh film in the Falcon series This was the second of four Falcon features produced by Maurice Geraghty in which his brother Gerald was a contributing writer; he assisted Ardel Wray with adapting her story based on the Michael Arlen character. In this B crime mystery drama directed by William Clemens Tom Conway plays Tom Lawrence aka The Falcon and actress Isabel Jewell (among others) joins series [...]
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