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Circa 1980’s reproduction film still of Clara Bow with banjolele and Antonio Moreno in “It” (1927) ☆

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The Circus, US lobby card. 1928

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[The film Wanda] has disturbed many women. It really was born out of her own experience out of her own life, out of the women that are known in America as Floaters. That’s a woman who has no real direction of her own and no ability to get from where she is to where she wants to go and floats as debris or little animals that float on the surface of the sea, here and there wherever the tides take them.

                                                    -Elia Kazan on Barbara Loden’s Wanda

 Wanda

Barbara Loden, 1970

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences was founded on this day, May 11, 1927.

Sunrise won the award for “Unique and Artistic Production,” and Wings won the award for “Outstanding Picture, Production.” In every subsequent Academy Awards, these two awards categories were eliminated, replaced by a single award to honor the Best Picture of the year, usually seen as the Academy’s top prize. But in its first year, with no Best Picture award, Sunrise and Wings shared this highest honor, the former for artistic strength, the latter for production quality. 

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Sixteen years later,Wes Anderson’s Bottle Rocket not only holds up but could easily be considered one of the best films of the 1990s. I know this guy agrees.

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L’Atalante

Jean Vigo, 1934

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