Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Pre-2018 Film Reviews
All the King’s Men
Emanuel Levy @ OFCS (1949)
- Excerpt: The political expose of greed and corruption, All the King’s Men won the Best Picture Oscar in 1949, though Best Director went to Joseph Mankiewicz for Letter to Three Wives.
The Best Years of Our Lives
Emanuel Levy @ OFCS (1946)
- Excerpt: Reflecting the zeitgeist of post WWII American society, William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives swept the 1946 Oscar Awards in all the major categories
Chomsky: Rquiem for the American Dream
Beverly Questad @ It’s Just Movies (2016)
- Excerpt: The Vicious Cycle versus the American Dream.
Diary of a Chambermaid
Paulo Portugal @ insider (1964) [Portuguese]
Gentleman’s Agreement
Emanuel Levy @ OFCS (1947)
- Excerpt: Elia Kazan’s drama on anti-Semitism won the 1947 Best Picture Oscar, starring Gregory Peck as a journalist who pretends to be Jewish in order to probe the issue.
Hamlet
Emanuel Levy @ OFCS (1948)
- Excerpt: There was a good deal of resentment in Hollywood, when a British film, Olivier’s Hamlet swept the 1948 Oscars, including Best Picture, though there was critical consensus about its high artistic quality.
The Lost Weekend
Emanuel Levy @ OFCS (1945)
- Excerpt: Hollywood’s first major film about alcoholism, The Lost Weekend, by Billy Wilder, won the Best Picture Oscar, Best Director, and Best Actor for Ray Milland
Shaun of the Dead
Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight (2004)
