For the first time in the Academy’s history, three of the Best Original Screenplay nominees were foreign language films

One of Robert Altman’s very best films, “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” is an elegiac, cynical and revisionist Western with top-notch performances from Warren Beatty and Julie Christie in the leads.   Altman, right after his huge commercial success with “M.A.S.H.,” took advantage of his elevated status to make a more personal, stylized, and contemporary Western, […]

Cher won the Cannes Film Fest acting kudo for playing a non-traditional mother in “Mask.” After many failures, director Peter Bogdanovich makes sort of a comeback with this sensitive but unsentimental tale. In the hands of another director, it could have easily become a schmaltzy melodrama, a TV Movie of the Week. Among many things, […]

Oscar Nominations: 1

Actress: Rosalind Russell