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We don’t necessarily go to the movies to cry, but it tends to happen. Well, unless you’re a manly man, in which case you likely only cry at a movie when a football star dies, or Jason Statham wrecks a beautiful car. But the fact is that there are a lot of depressing movies in [...]
Posted by Jeff Kelly on Thursday, July 12, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged American Beauty, cool hand luke, Denzel Washington, depressing endings, depressing movies, Harvey Milk, inspiring sad films, Jeff Kelly, John Steinbeck, Life is Beautiful, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Oskar Schindler, Paul Newman, Philadelphia Tom Hanks, Randall McMurphy, Roberto Benigni, Schindler's List, Sean Penn, Steven Spielberg, The Grapes of Wrath, tom hanks, Tom Joad
In the 80 or so years of its existence, the Academy Awards has made some poor choices. Dances With the Wolves over Goodfellas? Bleh. And try finding someone who could justify The Greatest Show On Earth or Around the World In 80 Days winning- let alone getting nominated. The list goes on. We know what [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 11:17 pm
Filed under Movies · Tagged A Clockwork Orange, A Streetcar Named Desire, Academy Award, Academy Award for Best Picture, academy awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American film directors, American Film Institute, Around the World In 80 Days, Cinema of the United States, Citizen Kane, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, epic films, Faye Dunaway, film, full metal jacket, Grand Illusion, It Happened One Night, Jack Nicholson, La Grande Illusion, Network, orson welles, Reds, Robert De Niro, Rocky, Sierra Madre, Taxi Driver, The Grapes of Wrath, The Shawshank Redemption, The Third Man, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Vittorio Storaro, vivien leigh, You Can't Take It With You
Some of the most overlooked personalities in the film industry are the men and women who sit in the director’s chair. While most of the public is content with engaging themselves with the off-screen antics of actors and actresses, it is often the directors who outshine their fellow artists in terms of eccentricities and sheer [...]
Posted by Nathanael Hood on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at 11:00 am
Filed under Movies, People · Tagged A Clockwork Orange, Academy Award, Aguirre, Akira Kurosawa, amazon river, American film directors, Anne Frank Pt II, auteurs, Barry Lyndon, bernardo bertolucci, best directors, Blue Velvet, Braveheart, Bruno Schleinstein, Cecil B. DeMille, Charlton Heston, Chimes at Midnight, Citizen Kane, Dancer in the Dark, David Lynch, Delilah, denmark, Director Award, Dogme, Dogville, Element of Crime, Entertainment, Entertainment_Culture, Eraserhead, Even Dwarfs Started Small, famous directors, famous regular actress, fantastic Shakespearean actor, film, film directors, film noir, Fort Apache, France, French Legion of Honor, full metal jacket, Golden Lion, Grizzly Man, Gus Van Sant, Hairspray, Harmony Korine, Hidden Fortress, Howard Hawks, I Dismember Mama, Ice Station Zebra, Ikiru, Ingmar Bergman, John Ford, John Water, John Waters, john wayne, Julien Donkey-Boy, Julius Caesar, Kaspar Hauser, King of Kings, Kirk Douglas, Klaus Kinski, Martin Scorsese, Me and Orson Welles, Mondo Trasho, movie history, Movies, Mt. Fuji, Multiple Maniacs, Munich Film School, My Best Fiend, Nathaniel Hood, No Smoking, Omaha Beach, orson welles, Paths of Glory, Patricia Hearst, rubber baron, Sahara Desert, Scarface, Scatman Crothers, Sergio Leone, Shelley Duvall, Spartacus, stagecoach, stanley kubrick, Strangelove, the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, the Academy Award, the Best Director Award, the Cannes Film Festival, The Crusades, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, the first Academy Award, The Grapes of Wrath, The Hidden Fortress, The Idiots, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Outlaw, The Shining, the Venice Film Festival, the Wrath of God, Touch of Evil, Twin Peaks, Victor Mature, Werner Herzog, Wild at Heart, William Randolph Hearst, Yoshio Inaba, Zentropa, ZENTROPA PRODUCTIONS
