Tag Archives: Schindler’s List

From Prohibiting to Demanding: The Newest Unnecessary and Anti-Art Regulations from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Posted on July 24, 2024 by Mark DuPré

Most folks with even a cursory knowledge of American film history knows about the Hayes Code. In brief: the Hayes Code was implemented by the film industry in the early 1930s primarily to avoid government censorship and to attempt to … Continue reading →

Posted in Film-Related Articles | Tagged A Streetcar Named Desire, Academy Award, Baby Face, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Freaks, Hayes Code, It Happened One Night, Jaws, Mae West, Oscar, Scarface, Schindler's List, SNL, The Bad Seed, The Godfather, The Goodbye Girl, The Letter | Leave a comment

Sandra Hüller: The Zone of Interest and Anatomy of a Fall

Posted on May 19, 2024 by Mark DuPré

The Zone of Interest and Anatomy of a Fall were two of the most celebrated foreign language films of 2023. Among many other international awards, the former won Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film and Best Sound, while the … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films | Tagged Anatomy of a Fall, Anatomy of a Murder, Auschwitz, Cannes, James Stewart, Life is Beautiful, Meet Me in St. Louis, Messi, Milo Machado-Graner, Oppenheimer, Rudolf Huss, Samuel Theis, Sandra Huller, Schindler's List, Swan Arland, The Zone of Interest | Leave a comment

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Posted on October 9, 2021 by Mark DuPré

If Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Avatar had a baby, it would be something like Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (hereafter referred to simply as Shang-Chi). Not being a particular Marvel fanboy, but being interested in how … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews | Tagged Avatar, Awkwafina, Ben Kingsley, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, DC, Gandhi, House of Sand and Fog, Iron Man 3, Marvel, Michelle Yeoh, Schindler's List, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Simu Liu, Tony Leung | Leave a comment

Bridge of Spies

Posted on November 14, 2015 by Mark DuPré

The newest Spielberg film is out, and while it’s second-level Spielberg, that means it’s only better than 95 percent of what else is out there. Bridge of Spies is based on the true story of an American lawyer’s defense of … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films | Tagged Amistad, Amy Ryan, Bridge of Spies, Catch Me If You Can, Cold War, Gary Powers, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Janusz Kaminski, Jimmy Stewart, Lincoln, Mark Rylance, Minority Report, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Munich, Oscar Schindler, Rudolph Abel, Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg, The BFG, The Terminal, Thomas Cromwell, War Horse, War of the Worlds, Wolf Hall | Leave a comment

Lincoln

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Mark DuPré

Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln may be the most beautifully photographed, best-acted procedural ever filmed. The core of the film is not Lincoln’s life, or death, or any of his many personal struggles. It’s the ratification of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, … Continue reading →

Posted in Newer films | Tagged All About Eve, Daniel Day-Lewis, David Strathairn, Hal Holbrook, Jackie Earle Haley, James Spader, Jared Harris, John Hawkes, John Williams, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Joseph Mankiewicz, Lincoln, Philip Seymour Hoffmann, Sally Field, Schindler's List, Speven Spielberg, The Master, Tim Blake Nelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Tony Kushner | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Schindler’s List

Sandra Hüller: The Zone of Interest and Anatomy of a Fall

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Bridge of Spies

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