10 years, 10 unforgettable Oscar moments

by Cláudio Alves

We may quibble and despair over the Oscars but we still tune in every year and love them despite it all. If we didn't, why would we obsess over predictions, rejoice at worthy victors or grimace when injustices occur? Looking back at the last decade of the awards, there are many indelible moments that energized us and made us applaud, that had us at the edge of our seats, crying through a heady mix of surprise and mirth.

Honorable mentions and a top ten list after the jump...

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The Quick and the Dead, 25 Years Later

by Ben Miller

When you rewatch Sam Raimi’s The Quick and the Dead, it desperately needs to be contextualized.  Look on the surface and you see four actors with both bonfide acting chops as well as moviestar magnetism.  On top of all that, you have a cavalcade of character actors hamming it up in the background while Raimi pulls out every B-movie trick he knows for an entertaining-as-hell Western.  

All of it all works, but it didn’t in 1995...

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The Linkman

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After the jump Byronic heroes, Mulan, Parasite's win (again), Alamo Drafthouse subscriptions, gay stuff, and two exciting restorations...

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Shutter Island is 10 ... Remember Leo's "Dead Wives Club"?

by Nathaniel R

Ten years ago Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010) opened in movie theaters. Or did it? It did but what if I were an unreliable narrator?!? Once you start worrying about fact versus self-fiction, well, it can drive a person crazy. Curiously given its hit status (though perhaps not so curiously given its release date) this is the only Scorsese film from the 2010s to not receive a single Oscar nomination. 

Are you a fan? What's your most intense memory of it? I'll tell you mine after the jump...

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Doc Corner: Patricio Guzmán’s 'The Cordillera of Dreams'

By Glenn Dunks

Desert. Sky. Water. Mountains. Just the subjects alone suggest a nation of dichotomies. Patricio Guzmán’s most recent films about his troubled home-country of Chile have covered a lot of his people’s terrain. Capping a trilogy of documentaries that began with 2010’s Nostalgia for the Light and 2015’s The Pearl Button, The Cordillera of Dreams retains Guzmán’s searching and plaintive approach to Chile’s history as he poetically explores the connection between the Chilean people and the stretch of Andes mountains that surround the capital of Santiago.

The South American nation has remained a constant across his career despite living in exile since 1973 when his epic three-part The Battle of Chile was smuggled out of the country and premiered to extraordinary acclaim (he has lived in Europe ever since)...

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