Cinema Paradiso Articles

Harrison Ford in Andrew Davis' DGA- (but not Oscar-) nominated The Fugitive (top); Madeleine Stowe, Tim Robbins in Robert Altman's Oscar- (but not DGA-) nominated Short Cuts (bottom) DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1980s: Odd Men Out Roman Polanski, Kenneth Branagh, David Lynch 1990 DGA Barry Levinson, Avalon Giuseppe Tornatore, Cinema Paradiso [the 1988 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner; ineligible for the 1990 Academy [...]

This evening, Turner Classic Movies is showing several films with gay/bi/etc. characters as part of their Screened Out series. Two days ago, I was sent a link to the youtube video below. I'm posting it here as I found it both clever and perfectly appropriate to the occasion. The video, created eight months ago by Robert Eldredge, was inspired by the finale of Giuseppe Tornatore's [...]

Over his 45-year career, prolific composer-conductor Ennio Morricone has created more than 500 scores for both films and television — including my all-time favorite movie score, the Once Upon a Time in the West ballad. He will finally be given his Oscar due on February 25, 2007, when he'll be picking up an Honorary Academy Award for his contributions to film art. More than a [...]