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And the Oscar Goes to...Eight-Plus Decades of Best Picture Winners on Blu-ray, Part Six
Posted Thu Feb 27, 2014 at 10:50 AM PST by David KraussAll 13 Best Picture winners of the 2000s are currently available on Blu-ray, and they are…
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And the Oscar Goes to...Eight-Plus Decades of Best Picture Winners on Blu-ray, Part Five
Posted Fri Feb 21, 2014 at 12:45 PM PST by David KraussAll 10 Best Picture winners of the 1990s are currently available on Blu-ray, and they are…
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And the Oscar Goes to...Eight-Plus Decades of Best Pictures Winners on Blu-ray, Part Four
Posted Fri Feb 14, 2014 at 01:25 PM PST by David KraussThis week, we turn our attention to the 1980s, the decade of big hair, shoulder pads, leg warmers, Reaganomics, Iran-Contra, Cabbage Patch Kids, the Reebok Pump, 'Dallas,' and 'Dynasty.' Everything was big in '80s, and movies were no exception.
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And the Oscar Goes to... Eight-Plus Decades of Best Picture Winners on Blu-ray, Part Three
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And the Oscar Goes to... Eight-Plus Decades of Best Picture Winners on Blu-ray, Part Two
Posted Fri Jan 31, 2014 at 04:01 PM PST by David KraussThis week, we examine the 1940s and 1950s, where we see the emergence of such esteemed directors as Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock, a wave of patriotic war movies, more widespread use of Technicolor (which would morph into cheaper single-strip color formats by the mid-1950s), the dawn of a new genre that soon would be dubbed film noir, the rise of social issue films and a movement toward realism, and the development of a revolutionary widescreen process called CinemaScope. By the end of these two decades, the once mighty studio system would be all but dead, and censorship would be on its way out, too. The era would spawn 20 Best Picture winners. Thirteen are currently available on Blu-ray, and they are…
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