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All Quiet on the Western Front

19 Tuesday May 2015

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1929/30, Best Director, Best Film

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.

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Anna Christie

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!

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The Love Parade

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.

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Hallelujah

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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Disraeli

05 Sunday Apr 2015

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Directed: Alfred E Green

Year: 1929

Nominated: Best Film, Best Actor – George Arliss

Won: Best Actor – George Arliss

Plot in 25 Words: A Prime Minister gets his way via a series of scams and true British grit. Support from his loving wife helps him achieve his goals.

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The Divorcee

15 Sunday Mar 2015

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Directed: Robert Z. Leonard

Year: 1930

Nominated: Best Film, Best Director – Robert Z. Leonard, Best Actress – Norma Shearer

Won: Best Actress – Norma Shearer

Plot in 25 Words: A group of friends engage in wife-swapping, hypocrisy, and double standards. But finally, women wearing trousers, working and playing the field like men.

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1929/30

15 Sunday Mar 2015

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1929/30

Best Picture:

  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • The Big House
  • Disraeli
  • The Divorcee
  • The Love Parade

Best Director:

  • Lewis Milestone – All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Clarence Brown – Anna Christie
  • Clarence Brown – Romance
  • Robert Z. Leonard – The Divorcee
  • Ernst Lubitsch – The Love Parade
  • King Vidor – Hallelujah

Best Actor

  • George Arliss – Disraeli
  • George Arliss – The Green Goddess
  • Wallace Beery – The Big House
  • Maurice Chevalier – The Big Pond
  • Maurice Chevalier – The Love Parade
  • Ronald Colman – Bulldog Drummond
  • Ronald Colman – Condemned
  • Lawrence Tibbett – The Rogue Song

Best Actress

  • Norma Shearer – The Divorcee
  • Nancy Carroll – The Devil’s Holiday
  • Ruth Chatterton – Sarah and Son
  • Greta Garbo – Anna Christie
  • Greta Garbo – Romance
  • Norma Shearer – Their Own Desire
  • Gloria Swanson – The Trespasser

I was pleasantly surprised by this list of films. I thought it was going to take me a lot longer before I came across a film I’d heard of! I’ve no real idea of what goes on in ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ but I’ve heard of it and that counts!

Not only that but a star I’ve heard of, and not just from previous films. I’m looking most forward to watching the films starring Greta Garbo.

Here’s to hoping this batch is more gripping than the last!

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