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The upcoming summer movie season is about as dark and dreary as any we’ve seen. The product couldn’t be more finely tuned to the thoughtless months and I anticipate having to dig deep for positive accounts along the way. So it goes. Maybe, then, it would be a good idea to finally lap up those [...]
Happy 122nd, Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:32 am · April 16th, 2011
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On acting
Posted by John Foote · 10:11 am · October 2nd, 2009
What constitutes a great performance? What makes it something that puts it head and shoulders above the rest? What does an artist do to go to that level of art and achieve something that is both extraordinary and rare? Does the Academy, or rather the branch that nominates the actors, look as closely at performance [...]
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OFF THE CARPET: Memo to the Academy
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:11 am · December 29th, 2008
–MEMO– TO: Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences FROM: Kristopher Tapley RE: The ballot you recently received Ladies and gentleman, As you sit to ponder the year’s best in your various fields of professional expertise, you might find yourself strong-armed into the consensus view 2008′s film product has been whittled down [...]
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Great Oscarless directors
Posted by John Foote · 3:50 am · June 1st, 2008
Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, Howard Hawks, Stanley Kubrick, Preston Sturges, Ernest Lubitsch, Hal Ashby, Alan J. Pakula, Sidney Lumet, Spike Lee, Paul Thomas Anderson. Collectively they represent some of the greatest directors in the history of the cinema, and together they share one rather unbelievable fact…not one of them is a Academy Award winner for [...]
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