Best Picture is the most important Academy Award.
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Author: Steven Strauss
Droppings
In the spirit of Oscars season, here are my favorite needle-drops from 2024 Cinema, in no discernible order:
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One for What?
A song that plays over a movie’s closing credits is given pride of place in the audience’s immediate response.
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Form Content
If the subject is the content of a biodoc, then aspects of their identity can inform the documentary’s form.
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Not So Wonderful
Is Wonderful World Broadway’s crossing-the-Rubicon moment for the use of projections?
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But Why Not
Ask everyone who sees Queer for a basic plot summary, and you won’t hear many mentions of Judaism, the Holocaust, nor 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Voyage
Watching The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy [redux] can feel like a crazy-making experience, befitting a play about a man driven to-infinity-and-beyond his wits’ end.
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DIY
It’s always a gas to track overlaps between Under the Radar productions.
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Cameo Joe
One of Joe Pesci’s two scenes in Day of the Fight utilizes the audience’s familiarity with his oeuvre to make us feel the protagonist’s plight.
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It Ends with Them
It Ends with Us is back in the headlines, for reasons having almost nothing to do with what’s in the movie.
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