How You Like Me Now?: 1944, Part Eight

We're coming to an interesting point of 1944. The most famous film of today's collection was made three years before its release, did OK at the box office, and received no Academy Award nominations. And yet! It has endured! That and more, just below...

The Long Game: 1944, Part Seven

The final three Best Picture nominees are briefly glanced herein, and one of them, tragically, lost every single one of its nominations. But when I tell you that, and then when I tell you the five nominees were Double Indemnity, Gaslight, Going My Way, Since You Went Away, and Wilson, I bet you won't correctly guess who the sole "loser" was...

Page to Stage to Screen: 1944, Part Six

Mark Twain, Anton Chekhov, Eugene O’Neill: July 1944 was a month of literary giants. 

A New Favorite: 1944, Part Five

Summer 1944 gave us our second Best Picture, as well as one of my favorites of this year...

First of the Best: 1944, Part Four

January saw our first Best Director nominee, and now May has our first Best Picture nominee!

The Brooders: 1944, Part Three

A movie that haunts me, a movie I’ve memory-holed, and a movie beloved by Steven Spielberg:

Embattled Broads: 1944, Part Two

Whether stationed abroad, entertaining the attentions of the troops, going to therapy, or committing MURDER, the films of 1944 truly believed women could play it all. I'm reminded that a frequent frustration of Old Hollywood fans is the dismissal of women’s roles at the time, despite there being so many varied, complex parts - in this lineup alone! As in: