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‘The Oscars’ Has Lost all Ounce of Respectability as a Serious Award Contest

‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ and ‘Blue Jasmine’ (best actress aside) have been shunned from the principal Oscar award categories. How was ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’  snubbed for Best Picture, Best Actor,  and Screenplay nominations?  Likewise ‘Blue Jasmine’ for Best director and Best

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Jerry Seinfeld – All Awards are Stupid

As the silly season of movie award ceremonies rapidly approaches, I was reminded of a very funny speech by Jerry Seinfeld aptly titled ‘All Awards are Stupid’. Actually I love this season, because we have an excuse to watch a

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Comedy and the Ages. Lenny Bruce, Charles Bukowski and Hunter S Thompson

George Carlin himself once put it: “Lenny Bruce opened the doors for all the guys like me.” Last night I watched the sobering documentary on the infamous American comedian Lenny Bruce called, Swear to tell the truth. It was disturbing

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Winter Light (1963) – Ingmar Bergman

Marta Lundberg, an atheist local school teacher sits and laments at the church pew because she is deeply in love with a pastor whose faith in God, himself and Marta is dwindling into an existential nothingness. At the point of

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‘Love and Theft’ – American Hustle (2013)

David Russell lent heavily from Martin Scorsese’s best crime dramas to make American Hustle. The narratives, music and editing are an almost direct homage to Scorsese’s 90’s work particularly Casino. Even De Niro makes a key entrance wearing the same

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Ingmar Bergman and Wild Strawberries (1957)

Many years ago, I had the audacity to create a list of my 100 favourite movies on IMDB without having seen a single Ingmar Bergman picture. I was more or less cajoled to watch Bergman if my list was to

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Barton Fink (Coen Brothers) – A Screenplay Masterpiece

Such is the allure of watching engrossing and dynamic characters like those in Barton Fink, the Coen Brothers 1991 cinematic gem, that if I had my time all over again I would focus every ounce of my efforts on screenwriting.

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