“AMOUR”: Digital Movie Club (Abandoned, Misunderstood, Overlooked, Underestimated, Revisited)

A digital global club called AMOUR: Films that, for whatever reasons, were Abandoned, Misunderstood, Overlooked, Underestimated, Revisited.

New Book about Cannes Film Fest, Camera d’Or (2011): Las Acacias

Pablo Giorgelli directed Las Acacias, a simple low-key yet effective Argentinian drama that won the Caméra d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Fest.

Movie Stars: Brent, George–Background, Career, Awards

George Brent: Second Banana Movie Star, Supporting Davis, Stanwyck, Garbo

Film Theory: Style–Editing

“The foundation of film art is editing” The syntax of cinema; its grammatic language Shots arejoined into scenes; editing eliminates unnecessary time and place (V.I. Pudovkin) “Films are a series of details–details within details.” (Jerry Greenberg, Scarface, 1983). “Everything on the shooy is just raw material. A motion picture is basically made in the editing […]

Broadway Melody (1928): First Awarded Musical–One of Worst Winners

In Preparation for New 15th Edition of My Pioneering Oscar Book