Producer/director Maximillian Schell, better known as an actor (he won the 1961 Oscar for “Judgment at Nuremberg”), acting as producer and director, adapted the screenplay of “First Love” from a story by the famous Russian writer, Ivan Turgenev.
Oscar Movies: Dead, The–John Huston Last Film
April 15, 2012 by
John Huston’s “The Dead” is the very last picture in a distinguished four-decade career. It’s a personal film as it stars daughter Anjelica Huston in the lead and is based on an adapted screenplay by Huston’s son, Tony.
Oscar Movies: Elementary School (1991)
April 13, 2012 by
Sessitively directed by Czech director Jan Sverak, in an impressive feature debut, “Elementary School” is by turns light, bittersweet, and nostalgic in depciting the pimpact of a disruptive system on its pupils.
Oscar Movies: Dillinger (1945)
April 13, 2012 by
A typical Poverty Raw production, including the use of stock footage, Max Nosseck’s biopic about the legendary gangster John Dillinger was made barely 11 years after his death, making no attempts to stick to the facts. For a 1945 movie, “Dillinger” has a bleak tone, and it was influential in introducing the subgenre of the rural gangster film.
Oscar Movies: David and Bathsheba (1951)
April 12, 2012 by
“David and Bathsheba,” Henry King’s screen version of the Old Testament story, is stale, earnest, and dignified, mostly serving as a star vehicle for Gregpry Peck and Susan Hayward.
