The Classics Shelf: The Top Ten Non-American Films of the 1950s
In the latest edition of The Classics Shelf, Bil Antoniou spotlights world cinema by picking the best non-American films of the 1950s.
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The Classics Shelf: The Top Ten Golden Bear Winners
The Classics Shelf: Ranking the ten best Golden Bear winners in the storied history of the Berlin Film Festival, including La Notte, Head-On, and The Wages of Fear.
The Classics Shelf: The Top 10 Best Picture Nominees That Didn’t Win Anything
For a movie that has campaigned hard and made it to the final group of nominees, a Best Picture loss is a disappointment, but winning at least one category throughout the night helps soothe the pain. Going home completely empty-handed, however, has to be a much bigger sorrow.
The Classics Shelf: The 1973 Cannes Film Festival
Revisiting the films of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival where Scarecrow and The Hireling tied for the Grand Prix amid a scandalous line-up.
The Classics Shelf: The 1994 Academy Awards, Part 4 – The Final Hour: And the Winner Is
The 67th Academy Award ended a long night with Forrest Gump winning the popular vote over critical favourite Pulp Fiction.
The Classics Shelf: The 1994 Academy Awards, Part 3 – The Second Hour: I’m Sure They’re Pissed Off About Something
If you thought Adrien Brody's Oscar speech was long, you should have seen the 1994 Oscars! Our look back continues with the hour that celebrated docs, an historic tie, and more!
The Classics Shelf: The 1994 Academy Awards, Part 2 – The First Hour: The Hollywood Variety Show
During the 1994 Academy Awards, Lizzie Gardiner made fashion history with her win for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and Dianne Wiest won for an all-timer performance.
The Classics Shelf: The 1994 Academy Awards, Thirty Years Later
Revisiting the Academy Awards honouring the best films of 1994, where Forrest Gump trumped Pulp Fiction in one of the Oscars' Best Picture wins that hasn't aged so gracefully.
The Classics Shelf: The 1934 Venice Film Festival
Revisiting the films of the 1934 Venice Film Festival, including It Happened One Night, Little Women, Twentieth Century, and Masquerade in Vienna.
The Classics Shelf: The First Oscars
Revisiting the winners and nominees of the inaugural Academy Awards in 1927, including Wings, Sunrise, and The Crowd.
The Classics Shelf: The 2013 Berlin Film Festival
This edition of the Classics Shelf reviews the 2013 Berlin Film Festival where Child's Pose won the Golden Bear in a modest competition.
The Classics Shelf: The 1999 Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival held in May 1999 was the last before the new, for some dreaded, millennium, and featured its own watershed moments, including an Almodóvar film that aged far better than the Palme winner.
The Classics Shelf: Anjelica Huston
That Shelf salutes the career of Anjelica Huston by surveying her films like The Dead, The Grifters, Prizzi's Honor, The Addams Family, and Enemies, A Love Story.
The Classics Shelf: Cannes ’82
Revisiting the 1982 Cannes Film Festival where Missing and Yol shared the Palme d'Or, but only one of them has stood the test of time.
