Let us not kid ourselves – 1990 was the year the academy got it wrong, very wrong. This was the year that an instant classic by one our greatest living directors got stripped of the big prize by a fairly well made western directed by a well respected 80′s actor. Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” with its ambitious tracking shots, -now constantly...
“My people, my people, what can I say, say what I can. I saw it but didn’t believe it, I didn’t believe what I saw. Are we gonna live together, together are we gonna live?” Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing celebrates its 23rd anniversary this summer and it still packs a wallop. Lee’s examination of the racial divide in America is as relevant...
It was truly one of the Academy’s best moments in 1950 that they awarded Vittorio De Sica’s The Bicycle Thief with an honorary award for “best foreign language film in 1949.” After all of these years it still feels strange that they need to have that category at all, particularly now, since films in other countries are evolving in ways American...