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The 13 Worst “Best Picture” Winners

Posted on August 26, 2025 by Mark DuPré

The Oscars started out well, albeit being a group initially designed to keep union activity away, and to continue to grow Louis B. Mayer’s influence in Hollywood. The first year, they even had to address the “popular pic vs. art … Continue reading →

Posted in Film-Related Articles | Tagged A Place in the Sun, A Star is Born, A Streetcar Names Desire, All the King's Men, All the President's Men, American Beauty, An American in Paris, Argo, Around the World in 80 Days, Bradley Cooper, Braveheart, Cavalcade, Chicago, Coal Miner's Daughter, CODA, Crash, Dances with Wolves, Double Indemnity, Driving Miss Daisy, Dune, Forrest Gump, Gaaslight, Ghandi, Giant, Going My Way, Green Book, Guillermo del Toro, Hamlet, Hellboy, High Noon, How Green Was My Valley, Network, Oliver!, Ordinary People, Pan's Labyrinth, Raging Bull, Rocly, Roma, Saving Private Ryan, singin' in the rain, Taxi Driver, Tess, The Artist, The Broadway Melody, The Elephant Man, The Greatest Show on Earth, The King and I, The Power of the Dog, The Quiet Man, The Shape of Water, The Shawshank Redemption, West Side Story, You Can't Take it with You | Leave a comment

Two Films from the Fifties: Niagara and Les Girls

Posted on June 23, 2020 by Mark DuPré

Note: It’s been a long time since I’ve had time to write for this space. The pandemic hit hard, as I was just getting accustomed to handling four college courses (two were new). Once we went online, I had to … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged A Star is Born, An American in Paris, cyd charisse, Debbie Reynolds, Don Wilson, gene kelly, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, George Cukor, Grace Kelly, Hello Dolly, Henry Hathaway, Hitchcock, How the West Was Won, it's always fair weather, Jack Cole, James Mason, Jean Peters, Joseph Cotton, Joseph MAcDonald, Kay Kendall, Les Girls, Leslie Caron, Lurene Tuttle, Marilyn Monroe, Max Showalter, MGM, Mitzi Gaynor, My Fair Lady, Niagara, Rashomon, Rex Harrison, Richard Allan. How to Marry a Millionaire, Robert Burks, singin' in the rain, South Pacific, Taina Elg, Technicolor, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The Women, True Grit, Vera Ellen | Leave a comment

#OscarsSoSilly

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Mark DuPré

The Oscars should be taken seriously on a few levels. Sometimes they actually reward and encourage great work. At other times, they at least call attention to work that might otherwise be ignored. They can jumpstart a stalling career (or … Continue reading →

Posted in Film-Related Articles | Tagged #OscarsSoSilly, #OscarsSoWhite, A Beautiful Mind, A Place in the Sun, A Star is Born, A Streetcar Named Desire, African Queen, Airport, Al Pacino, All About Eve, All the President's Men, An American in Paris, Anne Baxter, Around the World in 80 Days, Ben Hur, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Bette Davis, Bing Crosby, Born Yesterday, BUtterfield 8, Capote, Cecil B. DeMille, Chaplin, Charles Laughton, Charlton Heston, Citizen Kane, City Slickers, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Cocoon, Cold Mountain, Coquette, Dances with Wolves, Dangerous, Denzel Washington, Dial M for Murder, Don Ameche, Donna Reed, Driving Miss Daisy, Elizabeth Taylor, Ellen Burstyn, Erin Brockovich, Franchot Tone, George Chakiris, George Clooney, Ginger Rogers, Going My Way, Golden Globes, Gone with the Wind, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Grace Kelly, Grace Moore, Greer Garson, Hallie Barry, Hattie McDaniel, Helen Hayes, Henry Fonda, Hollywood Foreign Press, Humphrey Bogart, It Happened One Night, Jack Lemmon, Jack Palance, James Steward, Jean Dujardin, Jessica Tandy, Jezebel, John Ford, John Mills, John Wayne, Judy Garland, Judy Holiday, Julia Roberts, Julianne Moore, Kate Winslet, Kitty Foyle, La Vie en Rose, Leonard DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Marlon Brando, Mary Pickford, McLaglen, Monster's Ball, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Mutiny on the Bounty, Myrna Loy, Nicole Kidman, Norma Shearer, Of Human Bondage, Olivier, On Golden Pond, On the Waterfront, Orson Welles, Oscar, Oscars, Out of Africa, Paul Newman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rear Window, Rebecca, Renee Zellweger, Requiem for a Dream, Robert Donat, Robert Duvall, Rocky, Russell Crowe, Ryan’s Daughter, Save the Tiger, Scent of a Woman, Still Alice, Sunset Boulevard, Syriana, Tender Mercies, The Artist, The Caine Mutiny, The Color of Money, The Country Girl, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Dictator, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Hours, The Informer, The Philadelphia Story, The Reader, The Revenant, The Shootist, The Sting, The Thin Man, Training Day, True Grit, Victor, West Side Story, William Powell | Leave a comment

La La Land

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Mark DuPré

I haven’t seen Moonlight yet (I live in Rochester, New York, not a major city, and it takes awhile for films to get here at times), but La La Land may well be the best film of the year. It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films | Tagged "Shall We Dance", An American in Paris, Britney Spears, Casablanca, Christina Aguilera, Crazy, Damien Chazelle, Emma Stone, Fred Astaire, Gangster Squad, gene kelly, Ginger Rogers, Helena Bonham Carter, Howard Keel, Johnny Depp, Judy Garland, Justin Timberlake, Kathryn Grayson, La La Land, Love, Manchester by the Sea, Moonlight, Rebel Without a Cause, Ryan Gosling, singin' in the rain, Stupid, Sweeney Todd, The King and I, The Red Balloon, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Tim Burton, Vincente Minnelli, Whiplash | Leave a comment

The Red Shoes (1948, British)

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Mark DuPré

The Red Shoes is a 1948 British Technicolor wonder that also happens to be a film about ballet and the constant struggle between being a great artist and having a life (see Whiplash for the most recent cinematic reminder). The … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged "In Glorious Technicolor", An American in Paris, Black Narcissus, dance, Emeric Pressburger, George Eastman House, Jack Cardiff, Michael Powell, Rochester, singin' in the rain, Technicolor, The Red Shoes | Leave a comment

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