Fellini @ 100: "Amarcord"

A few volunteers from Team Experience are revisiting Federico Fellini classics for his centennial. Here's Eric Blume...

 

Federico Fellini’s 1975 film Amarcord is considered the culmination of his style and artistry, the “most Fellini” of Fellini films, the one that won him his last (of four) Best Foreign Film Oscar, as well as prizes from the New York Film Critics and National Board of Review as director of the year.  And he never made a film afterwards that rivaled its success or connection with audiences... 

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a sweet 16 days till Oscar

We're just two weeks away and some change!  Since 16 is the magic number of the day, here are some memorable 16-related happenings at the Oscars.

Raiders of the Lost Ark was John Williams 16th nomination (out of 52!). Can you believe he lost for that adventure? Well, yes, because Chariots of Fire took Best Picture and that also had an instantly hooky score.

The 2016 Best Picture announcement (‘La La Land”... whoops, sorry, Moonlight’) will surely go down in history as one of the most memorable Oscar night moments ever.

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Sundance: The wondrous poetry of "Summertime"

by Abe Fried-Tanzer

Carlos Lopez Estrada, the director, with the cast of "Summertime" at Sundance

When Blindspotting premiered at Sundance on the opening night of the 2018 festival, the word was that two hundred ticket holders were turned away. They scheduled other screenings (where I saw the film), but it was clear that music video director Carlos López Estrada had something important to say that people wanted to hear. Just two years later, Estrada is back at Sundance opening the festival with his second feature…

In his first film, Estrada’s partner was Broadway star Daveed Diggs. This time he's working with twenty-seven spoken word artists, mostly between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six...

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Tarantino's Best Costumes

by Cláudio Alves

Despite some misgivings regarding this year’s highly unimaginative Best Costume Design line-up, there's much to rejoice about that Oscar category. One of the biggest reasons to celebrate is Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood's deserved nod for Arianne Phillips’ designs. As it happens, this is the first time any Quentin Tarantino film has been nominated for this particular award. Considering the director's ability to create memorable images and influential bits of cinematic iconography, this is somewhat preposterous. Better late than never.

Still, to shed light on the many costume delights of Tarantino's colorful oeuvre, here's a list of the ten best costumes in this director's films…

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The Actresses of 2019

by Murtada Elfadl

This year’s nominees for best actress do not offer much variety. Not in scope and type of role, not in diversity, not in film genre, and certainly not in quality of film. Only two of the five nominated films - Little Women and Marriage Story - have been recognized by the Academy for best picture, and the same two were the only ones to receive a metacritic average above 70. So how did we end up here when there other options that would’ve made the category stronger? Let’s take a look at what the film year offered...

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