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Oscar Movies: Isadora (1968)–Starring Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave renders an astonishing performance in this biopic of the pioneering modern dancer and free-spirited woman, Isadora Duncan. Trained in classical dance, Duncan shattered traditional conceptions by both her art and her personal life. The film begins at the end of her life as she recalls the past while dictating her memoirs to her […]
Oscar Movies: Island at the Top of the World (1974)
Based on the book by Ian Cameron titled The Lost Ones, this Disney-made adventure concerns the search of a rich English explorer (Donald Sinden) for his missing son., who discovers in the process an Island populated by Viking warriors. He is joined by international group of members: American archeologist (David Hartman), French balloonist (Jacques Marin), and […]
Oscar Movies: Islands in the Stream (1977)–WWII Tale Starring George C. Scott
Based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway, and directed by Oscar winner Franklin Shaffner (Patton), this boring WWII tale centers on an artist (George C. Scott), who lives on an island in the Bahamas. After visits from his sons, he decided to go back to the homeland, but the War changes his plans. The secondary […]
Oscar Movies: It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)
This lukewarm, rather predictable culture clash comedy, written by Michael Pertwee and Jack Davies, and directed by Michael Shavelson, was nominated for the Art Direction Oscar, but lost to the more deserving “Spartacus.”






