10 Oscar Winners (and the Films They Should Have Won For)
Sometimes, the Academy Awards a consolation prize of sorts for getting it wrong in a previous year. Here are 10 examples of this phenomenon.
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Ten Cases of Sacked Directors
With Paramount announcing Roberto Orci's replacement as director of the upcoming Star Trek 3, we look back at ten other times when studios and suits played musical chairs with their filmmakers.
‘Room 237’ and The History of Cinematic Representations of Cinephilia
Room 237 is one of the only films that respects and even admires cinephilia and its various forms.
The Atom Bomb’s Blast Shadows
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima forever altered popular culture, and the earliest traces of that tectonic shift can be found in an obscure government report and newsreel about the event.
Freudian Trip: Why We Still Can’t Get ‘The Shining’ Out of Our Heads
Freud theorized that to experience the uncanny was to awaken intellectual uncertainty. Kubrick's The Shining understands this to a masterful degree.
The Pragmatic Anarchy of the Long Take
Touch of Evil, Rope, and Snake Eyes tie themselves to the crime genre, where the Long Take’s history has continued almost as uninterrupted as the shots themselves.
Doing The Worst Things Well: What We Can Learn from Anthony Burgess
Perhaps the secret behind the Anthony Burgess’ reputation – the bar he set so high – is too shaming to a generation that cannot drink as he could, cannot think as he could, and certainly cannot write as he could.