Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.
- Anne de Lenclos
Berlin’s plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where, in the words of Dr. Otternschlag, “people come, people go. Nothing ever happens.”
The doctor is usually drunk, so he misses the fact that Baron von Geigern (John Barrymore) is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya’s (Greta Garbo) pearls. He ends up stealing her heart [...]
Cimarron, the first Western to win the Academy Award for Best Picture (and until Dances With Wolves in 1990, the only one), is the story of Sabra Cravat (Irene Dunne) and the westward expansion of the United States at the turn of the 18th century.
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless [...]
All Quiet on the Western Front (the 1930 version) is based on the book of the same name, which was written by the German author Erich Maria Remarque.
The book is probably the most famous anti-war novel ever written. The story is told by a young ‘unknown soldier’ in the trenches of Flanders (which reminds me [...]
The second film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture was a film called The Broadway Melody. It holds the distinction of being the first sound film to win the Oscar for Best Picture. Not bad for being MGM’s first feature-length film to have sound. It’s also the first all-talking musical feature. I guess [...]
I am starting a new project.
At the encouraging of Nick, Marci, Daniel and a few others at work, I have decided to jump in and tackle the list of films that have won the award for Best Motion Picture at the annual Academy Awards ceremony.
I am starting at the beginning, and I will watch every [...]