Officially, the tradition dates back to 1952 when 63 critics dubbed Vittorio De Sica’s neo-realist masterpiece, Bicycles Thieves, the best. From these ballots, Sight & Sound tabulate the frequency of each title to determine a list approaching definitive. Invited critics, programmers, academics, distributors and writers from around the globe submit ballots of what they consider to be the 10 greatest movies-with the definition of the word “greatest” left up to each individual. This November, Sight & Sound will announce its once-a-decade poll of the greatest films of all time. Yet there is hope, and it comes in the shape of a British film magazine. Has cinephilia ever felt this fractured? Darkest before the dawn Now you’re SOL if you have a Hulu account but not Apple TV+. Once were the days when even the most casual moviegoer could watch the best picture nominees. These days, streamers’ catalogs are so limited that the typical viewer subscribes to multiple services to keep pace. It might take some doing, but the best movies-new and old, mainstream and underground, domestic and foreign-were never out of reach. Before them were film societies, second-run theaters and art house cinemas connected to museums and universities. Before that was Blockbuster, Hollywood Video and a battery of mom-and-pop rental shops across the U.S. A rise in fanboy culture poisoned the well, turning casual discourse into coordinated toxic affairs, while the streaming wars eroded the viability of communal conversation.īack before the launch of Netflix Instant in 2007, the DVD mailing service offered a massive catalog of films from far and wide, old and new, for a relatively low price and the convenience of having the movies come to you. Not that things were that rosy in the first place. All this after two years of a pandemic that disrupted productions, neutered releases and shuttered the very spaces moviegoers called home for over a century.
I didn’t see them.”Īnimation was maligned as mere kiddie fair, a handful of production awards were handed out while the stars were still walking the red carpet, and there was that whole #OscarsFanFavorite thing. “They weren’t all great,” host Amy Schumer said of the nominated movies.
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“Here at the Oscars, where movie lovers unite and watch TV,” host Wanda Sykes said in a scripted intro.
No, the “slap heard ’round the world” wasn’t it-though that cast a pall over the proceedings, didn’t it?-but the constant, almost jubilant, belittlement cinema received by the very ceremony created to champion it. I guess you could say the low point arrived on March 27, 2022, with the broadcast of the 94th Academy Awards.
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