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.
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.
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.
15 Sunday Mar 2015
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Best Picture:
Best Director:
Best Actor
Best Actress
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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