Saving Private Ryan Articles
Top 100 Movies of the '90s – International Cinephile Society
The Thin Red Line The International Cinephile Society has released its list of the top 100 films of the '90s. Now, before you start calling the ICS members some really unkind names because James Cameron's Titanic (1997) and Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998) weren't included among their top 100, bear in mind that the Society has the word "Cinephile" — lover of film — [...]
THE HURT LOCKER, THE DEER HUNTER, PLATOON, BRAVEHEART: The Oscars & War Movie Controversies
THE HURT LOCKER: Controversy Hasn't Harmed Oscar-Nominated War Movies Julie Christie in Variety, discussing The Deer Hunter (1978, right, with Robert De Niro): "The film presents the Vietcong as subhuman and sadistic, though they effectively resisted both France and the United States, which possessed enormous means of warfare." Jane Fonda, the star of the post-Vietnam-syndrome Coming Home, later took it upon herself to campaign against [...]
Oscar Campaign Scandal: Robert Wise, Miramax & GANGS OF NEW YORK
Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York Nicolas Chartier, one of the four Oscar-nominated producers of The Hurt Locker, has been penalized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences because of e-mails he sent out a couple of weeks ago asking various Academy members to vote for his low-budgeted Iraq War drama and not for "a $500M film" — [...]