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All About Eve, American film, released in 1950, that delighted critics with its acid wit and that starred Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, and George Sanders. The movie received six Academy Awards, including that for best picture. The film opens at a theatre awards banquet held by the fictional Sarah Siddons Society. The theatre critic Addison DeWitt (played by Sanders) narrates the scene and introduces the main characters: Karen Richards (Celeste Holm); her husband, playwright Lloyd Richards (Hugh Ma...

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Pop Culture Happy Hour listeners voted on the top movies of all time to win best picture at the Oscars.

Pop Culture Happy Hour listeners voted on the top movies of all time to win best picture at the Oscars.

CinemaBlend Copy to clipboard With over 90 Academy Award Best Picture winners, you would think that it was difficult to narrow this list down to just 10, right? Well, no, actually. I’m going to let you in on a little secret. The movie that wins Best Picture is rarely ever a masterpiece. In fact, there are several years where the best picture of the year wasn’t even nominated. Like, how was Ex Machina not freaking nominated? Sorry, I’m still just a little upset over some of these...

their opinions known. Critic is an odd job description, to be sure. And misunderstood — even by some of its practitioners. Critics, in the view of most people, exist for two reasons. One is to pass judgment. Rudely, if possible. The other is to function as a consumer guide, advising people what they should or shouldnt spend their money on. Hence the star ratings (introduced by the Michelin restaurant guides in 1926), the awarding of tomatoes, bullets, popcorn boxes, and those thumbs-up, ...

Going back all the way to Addison DeWitt in All About Eve (1950), critics have often been villainised in cinema, portrayed as self-absorbed failed artists harbouring some hidden agenda when they lay down a harsh verdict. Theyre seldom shown as creatives who feel privileged and thrilled that they get to do what they do for a living. The tradition of critics being turned into targets of criticism continues in Malcolm & Marie. The woes of the films protagonist, and by proxy its director Sam Levins...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Mary McNamara: ‘Promising Young Woman’ and ‘Malcolm & Marie’ put film critics under fire. Here’s why [Los Angeles Times :: BC-MOVIE-MCNAMARA-COLUMN:LA] As someone who has written about the entertainment industry for a very long time and in many capacities, I wish I had a nickel for every actor, director, screenwriter, novelist, playwright and performer who looked me straight in the eye and said, “I never read the reviews.” If I did, I could stop writin...

As someone who has written about the entertainment industry for a very long time and in many capacities, I wish I had a nickel for every actor, director, screenwriter, novelist, playwright and performer who looked me straight in the eye and said, “I never read the reviews.” If I did, I could stop writing about the entertainment industry, or anything else, really — I’d be too busy furnishing my London and Paris apartments. And if I had a nickel for each of those people who were somehow a...

George Sanders was cinemas great poet of dry cynicism – and never better than in Voyage to Italy Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored... began his suicide note. In this classic 1954 film, he reveals his cosmic self-contempt George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman filming Voyage to Italy in 1953 Credit: Bettmann One day I’ll make a pilgrimage to the Hotel Rey Don Jaime in Castelldefels, 10 miles south of Barcelona, where George Sanders committed suicide in 1972. (“Dear World,” he charac...