02 Tuesday Jun 2015
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Directed: E. Mason Hopper
Year: 1929
Nominated: Best Actress – Norma Shearer
Plot in 25 Words: A fairly modern seeming take with love, lies, and mistaken identities. Romance and a near death experience lead to everyone getting a happily ever after.
01 Monday Jun 2015
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Directed: Hobart Henley
Year: 1930
Nominated: Best Actor – Maurice Chevalier
Plot in 25 Words: A Euro dandy crosses the big pond to be with his heiress lover. Her family haze, test and grow to respect him, til he kidnaps!
01 Monday Jun 2015
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Directed: Dorothy Arzner
Year: 1930
Nominated: Best Actress – Ruth Chatterton
Plot in 25 Words: A child custody disagreement in a world where apparently kidnapping barely registers. Women still have no rights and all rich children are spoiled to ruin.
29 Friday May 2015
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Directed: Clarence Brown
Year: 1930
Nominated: Best Director – Clarence Brown, Best Actress – Greta Garbo
Plot in 25 Words: Love across the classes, across the years, and across the language barrier. Betrayal by friends and lovers but ultimately love should win out overall eventually.
29 Friday May 2015
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Directed: George Hill
Year: 1930
Nominated: Best Film, Best Actor – Wallace Beery
Plot in 25 Words: One of the first prison films made, and a terrifying insight into prison life in the 30s. Clue – it’s horrible and full of backstabbing traitors.
19 Tuesday May 2015
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Directed: F. Richard Jones
Year: 1929
Nominated: Best Actor – Ronald Colman
Plot in 25 Words: An early slapstick James Bond style adventure. Bored gentleman and foppish friend take charge and save a damsel in distress. Fancy dress plays its part.
19 Tuesday May 2015
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Directed: Lewis Milestone
Year: 1930
Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Lewis Milestone
Won: Best Film, Best Director – Lewis Milestone
Plot in 25 Words: A bleak and probably quite honest view of life on the front lines. Hunger, disease, injury and death but no glorifying of war. Bleak film.
06 Monday Apr 2015
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Directed: Clarence Brown
Year: 1930
Nominated: Best Director – Clarence Brown, Best Actress – Greta Garbo
Plot in 25 Words: A disgraced woman stays with her father on his barge. She rescues and falls in love with a washed up sailor. Admits her prostitute past!
06 Monday Apr 2015
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Directed: Ernst Lubitsch
Year: 1929
Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Ernst Lubitsch, Best Actor – Maurice Chevalier
Plot in 25 Words: Ambassador shags about on duty and is sent home. He falls for and marries the queen, eventually becoming a cuckold. With singing. Lots of singing.
06 Monday Apr 2015
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Directed: King Vidor
Year: 1929
Nominated: Best Director – King Vidor
Plot in 25 Words: An “honest” depiction of slave life in 1920s Southern America. An incredibly green cast perform admirably to create one of America’s first all-black films.
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