Posted in Review Year in Film

1957 in Film: Witness for the Prosecution

In a year of strong Best Picture contenders, there’s generally that one film (or occasionally several) that likely would have won, if it hadn’t been…

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Posted in Festival

Festival de Cannes 72 Countdown: The Lost Weekend, 1946

We excitedly countdown to the 72nd Festival de Cannes with a different prize winning film each day. The Lost Weekend, 1946 Grand Prix du Festival…

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Posted in Genre History Movies

Genre Blast: Stop the Presses! The Journalism Genre

“Journalism is the first draft of history,” Phil Graham, newspaper publisher and part owner of the Washington Post, once said. I would add that films about journalism – whether fictional  or based on true events – would be the postscript to history, with license.

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