tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43228357652255601862024-03-18T11:42:46.994-07:00Film Reviews, News, Casting Updates and Analysis: The Silver Screening RoomFilm reviews and news, casting news, updates on the latest movie productions, and analysis of the entertainment industry. Whether you are an film buff, actor, filmmaker, or are just interested in some interesting insight, The Silver Screening Room is packed with information for you!Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.comBlogger1486125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-1786224543680746782024-02-06T11:57:00.000-08:002024-02-06T11:57:16.136-08:00Your Winners! For the 2023 Hollmann Awards!<div>Here we are. You've seen <a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2024/01/top-ten-of-2023.html">my Top Ten</a> (and if you haven't, why not?) and you've looked at <a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2024/01/the-2023-hollmann-awards-nominees-are.html">all the nominees</a> (because I won't repeat all of them here!). Now, the final word on 2023 - my <u style="font-style: italic;">winners</u> for the best in last year's cinema. The 2023 Hollmann Awards. Beginning with music:</div><span></span><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2024/02/your-winners-for-2023-hollmann-awards.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-90857130977792106682024-01-22T09:31:00.000-08:002024-02-05T06:07:25.635-08:00The 2023 Hollmann Awards - The Nominees Are...<div><span style="font-family: times;">115 films seen - but only 33 nominated. Here they are:<span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2024/01/the-2023-hollmann-awards-nominees-are.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-57668246149643214772024-01-21T07:18:00.000-08:002024-01-21T07:18:42.356-08:00Top Ten of 2023<div>With apologies to the almost-made-its - <i>12.12: The Day</i>, <i>Bottoms</i>, <i>Freud's Last Session</i>, <i>Godzilla Minus One</i>, <i>How to Blow Up a Pipeline</i>, <i>May December</i>, <i>Napoleon</i>, <i>Rustin</i>, <i>Thanksgiving</i>, and <i>The Zone of Interest</i> - I present, in alphabetical order, my Top Ten Films of 2023:</div><span></span><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2024/01/top-ten-of-2023.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-45627677438534647102024-01-14T11:23:00.000-08:002024-01-14T11:23:49.827-08:00The Year That Was: 2023<div>It's time to close the books on the film year of 2023.</div><div><br /></div><div>I watched 115 films that saw some sort of US theatrical release in 2023, whether they played a week a Boston or two months at a single theater in LA catering to Korean cinema. Many of them are either available to stream or currently in cinemas. These are those films:</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>12.12: The Day</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>80 for Brady</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Air</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>All of Us Strangers</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>American Fiction</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>American Symphony</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Anatomy of a Fall</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Asteroid City</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Barbie</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Beau is Afraid</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Big George Foreman</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Blue Beetle</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Boogeyman</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Book Club: The Next Chapter</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Bottoms</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Boy and the Heron</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Burial</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Chevalier</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Cocaine Bear</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Color Purple</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Concrete Utopia</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>El Conde</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Creator</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Dicks: The Musical</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Elemental</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Evil Dead Rise</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Fast X</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Ferrari</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Flamin' Hot</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Flora and Son</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Freud's Last Session</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Frybread Face and Me</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Full River Red</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Give Me Pity!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Godland</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Godzilla Minus One</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Golda</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Gran Turismo</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Guy Ritchie's The Covenant</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Haunted Mansion</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>A Haunting in Venice</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Heart of Stone</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Hidden Blade</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>His Only Son</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Holdovers</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>How to Blow Up a Pipeline</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Infinity Pool</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Insidious: The Red Door</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Iron Claw</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>It's a Wonderful Knife</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Jesus Revolution</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Joe Haladin: The Case of the Missing Sister</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Joy Ride</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Killer</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Killers of the Flower Moon</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Knights of the Zodiac</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Knock at the Cabin</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Last Voyage of the Demeter</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Leo</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Little Mermaid</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Little Richard: I Am Everything</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Lord of Misrule</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Love Again</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>M3GAN</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Maestro</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Magic Mike's Last Dance</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Master Gardener</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>May December</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Maybe I Do</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Migration</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Miracle Club</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Mother</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Moving On</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Napoleon</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>No Hard Feelings</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Noryang: Deadly Sea</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>NYAD</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Oppenheimer</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Pain Hustlers</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Passages</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Past Lives</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Persian Version</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Pigeon Tunnel</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Polite Society</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Poor Things</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Pope's Exorcist</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Renfield</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Rustin</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Saltburn</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Saw X</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Scream VI</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Showing Up</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Silver Dollar Road</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Skinamarink</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Slotherhouse</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Society of the Snow</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Somewhere in Queens</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Super Mario Bros. Movie</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Tetris</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Thanksgiving</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Theater Camp</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>A Thousand and One</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Where the Devil Roams</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Wonka</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Zone of Interest</i></div></div><div><br /></div><div>A week from today, I will present my Top Ten of the Year; the next day, my nominees for the 2023 Hollmann Awards. 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<div class="fb-like" data-href="http://www.facebook.com/SilverScreeningRoom" data-send="false" data-show-faces="true" data-width="500"></div>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-75870067666780935862023-11-22T11:26:00.000-08:002023-11-22T11:26:00.520-08:00The 1998 Retro Hollmann Awards Winners!<div>It has been difficult to actually sit down and write my personal winners for 1998. Familiarity is, I think, partly to blame: many of the past retrospectives have been treasure troves of discoveries, whereas 1998 was a year I actually experienced, so there were a lot of <i>re</i>watches this time around. Shouldn't that make me more ready to write about films I've loved and enjoyed for years? Well, I guess it <i>should</i>, but knowing much of my readership has already heard me wax on about many of these films in real life or on social media, there's a feeling of redundancy. </div><div><br></div><div>Still, winners I promised, and winners I shall deliver. To reacquaint yourself with all the parties involved: my <a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/11/my-top-ten-of-1998.html">Top Ten of the Year</a>, and <a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/11/the-1998-retro-hollmann-awards-nominees.html">the full list of nominees</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>Now, on with the show...</div><span></span><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/11/the-1998-retro-hollmann-awards-winners.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-53133226865555306572023-11-08T10:30:00.001-08:002023-11-08T10:30:08.905-08:00The 1998 Retro Hollmann Awards Nominees!<div>There are 36 films nominated across 18 categories at the 1998 Retro Hollmann Awards. And here they are:</div><span></span><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/11/the-1998-retro-hollmann-awards-nominees.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-87554405068652560162023-11-05T09:36:00.003-08:002023-11-05T09:36:50.886-08:00My Top Ten of 1998<div>I watched 75 films, whittled that down to a list of 21 favorites, came to a final 13, and now - with apologies to the three almost-made-its, <i>The Last Days of Disco</i>, <i>Pleasantville</i>, and <i>Spice World</i> - I present my Top Ten Films of 1998:</div><div><br></div><span></span><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/11/my-top-ten-of-1998.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-77346143477135734152023-10-31T11:51:00.001-07:002023-10-31T11:51:25.894-07:001998: Best Picture<div>Nothing was more certain in 1998 than <i>Saving Private Ryan</i>'s Best Picture Oscar. It had nearly swept all the "precursors," it was the second-highest-grossing film of the year, it was Spielberg - it was inevitable. But those in the know already heard the buzz going about. <i>Saving Private Ryan</i> is uneven, it was six months ago, what about a movie that makes you happy to be <i>alive</i>? And so came the surprise winner of the night:</div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IP9a10PK54g?si=NtaKY1L8Nj0vtOFk" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br></div><div><br></div><div>And people still debate the two. Are you for <i>Private Ryan</i> or <i>Shakespeare</i>? The Greatest Generation or the Elizabethan Age? "Earn this" or "It is a new world"? </div><div><br></div><div>Here's where I stand:</div><span></span><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-best-picture.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-58900063490863100912023-10-30T00:14:00.001-07:002023-10-30T09:16:54.021-07:001998: Best Director<div>Of course, the big story in 1998 was the return of Terrence Malick.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm going by <i>Oscar Wars</i> (incredible work by Michael Schulman) and <i>Inside Oscar 2</i> (incredibly bitchy work by Damien Bona) when I give these details. Malick was beloved by critics, artists, and cinephiles for his 1970s releases <i>Badlands</i> and <i>Days of Heaven</i>. Then he left for Paris, just dropped out, doing the odd uncredited rewrite here and there but otherwise kept out of the whole Hollywood thing. Producers Robert Michael Geisler and John Roberdeau coaxed him out after 19 years, and <i>The Thin Red Line</i> is the result. It would be another 13 before he would follow up with <i>The Tree of Life</i>, and now the man can't stop churning them out! By his standards, anyway.</div><div><br></div><div>Malick's return was a triumph critically and Oscarally - nominations-wise, at any rate. Because, at least in Best Director, there was no stopping the inevitable:</div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hgrbuYT9V4s?si=_1DaBAv_lBtMD6T6" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br></div><div><br></div><div>Was the inevitable the right choice, though?</div><span></span><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-best-director.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-41717368239590273742023-10-27T10:28:00.003-07:002023-10-27T11:08:50.819-07:001998: The Screenplays<div>Was it last year or earlier this year when Kyle Turner asked whether people who discuss/nominate/award screenplays actually <i>read</i> the screenplays, or do they just go off the vibes of the finished film? </div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, ask this he did, and I felt directly indicted because, while I tried in 2007 and 2008 to only nominate screenplays I'd read, I stopped this because...well, mostly, it's difficult to find them the further back you go, but also because, ugh, the <i>time</i> and the <i>energy</i>. But he's right. If we're going to discuss screenwriting, we can't <i>just</i> look at the finished product with all the edits, rewrites, performances, etc, that interpret the work. We have to look at the source of all this, the blueprint. Is it a 1:1 transfer? Did the final product let down the promise of the written word; did it <i>improve</i> on it? Are script and film completely different? How much could the actors, crafts artists, director work from?</div><div><br></div><div>These are the questions I asked as I went through these nominees and reflected on how much reading determined the wins for <i>Shakespeare in Love and</i> <i>Gods and Monsters</i>:</div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VbYmUl16d7E?si=S0W5EjAbXDhHOWHl" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br></div><div><br></div><div>Where available, I've linked to the available drafts (and for the real students of <i>all</i> film craft, Ian McKellen's official site <a href="https://mckellen.com/cinema/gods/gods-monsters.pdf">has his <i>Gods and Monsters</i> script scanned</a> page by page - with his notes!).</div><div><br></div><div>We start with Adapted Screenplay:</div><span></span><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-screenplays.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-1359317441052523802023-10-24T09:20:00.003-07:002023-10-24T09:20:43.801-07:001998: Best Actress<div>Best Actress 1998 is a heated one. The winner was Gwyneth Paltrow for <i>Shakespeare in Love</i>:</div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NG9p1FFwxb0?si=TqtnGmtJe7NbZaVf" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><br></div><div><br></div><div>And it's a win that's gone through all the phases of backlash, backlash-to-the-backlash, mild "not a bad performance but shouldn't have won" criticism, etc. And to be fair, even at the time there was no guarantee that Paltrow would triumph. Yes, she won the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Musical/Comedy Globe, but <i>Elizabeth</i>'s Cate Blanchett won the BAFTA and the Drama Globe and had genuine "a star is born" notices, while <i>Central Station</i>'s Fernanda Montenegro was lauded by the National Board of Review and the LA Film Critics (the New York Critics went for...Cameron Diaz in <i>There's Something About Mary</i>). </div><div><br></div><div>Even today, the conversation continues: when <a href="https://twitter.com/FritzandOscars">Fritz And The Oscars</a> polled "Film Twitter," Montenegro <a href="https://twitter.com/FritzandOscars/status/1645382010108620800">was the overwhelming favorite</a>, and just three years ago <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/glenn-close-gwyneth-paltrow-oscar-win-1234601013/">Glenn Close brought it all up</a>, concurring with the chorus of Montenegro support. Still others (including the Guest GMs on the <a href="https://screendrafts.libsyn.com/1998-mini-mega-with-karen-tongson-helen-shang-thomas-grabinski-bryan-cogman-clay">1998 Mini-Mega</a> episode of <a href="https://screendrafts.libsyn.com/">Screen Drafts</a>) rhapsodize over Blanchett's "a star is born!" performance. Few stick up for Paltrow, and has essentially become a much-debated, three-way race.</div><div><br></div><div>Which side do I fall on? I was surprised...</div><span></span><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-best-actress.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-62591649357622547742023-10-23T08:00:00.000-07:002023-10-23T08:00:02.266-07:001998: Best Original Song<div>Was Best Original Song the most competitive category at the 71st Academy Awards? It feels that way. Of the five nominees, only two were also nominated for the Golden Globe: <i>The Prince of Egypt</i>'s "When You Believe" and <i>Quest for Camelot</i>'s "The Prayer" which won. The other songs nominated were "Uninvited" from <i>City of Angels</i>, "The Mighty" from <i>The Mighty</i>, "Reflection" <a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-wilde-things.html">from <i>Mulan</i></a>, and "The Flame Still Burns" from <i>Still Crazy</i>.</div><div><br></div><div>Too, only two were nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Film or TV - in separate years, due to the Grammys' weird eligibility calendar. <i>Armageddon</i>'s "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" lost to <i>Titanic</i>'s "My Heart Will Go On," in a lineup that also included, from 1997, <i>Tomorrow Never Dies</i>' "Tomorrow Never Dies", and from 1998, the aforementioned "Uninvited" and <i>Mulan</i>'s "True to Your Heart." A year later, <i>The Prince of Egypt</i>'s "When You Believe" lost to <i>Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me</i>'s "Beautiful Stranger," in a lineup that also included, from 1998, <i><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/search/label/A%20Bug%27s%20Life">A Bug's Life</a></i>'s "The Time of Your Life" and, from 1999, <i>Music of the Heart</i>'s "Music of My Heart" and <i>Tarzan</i>'s "You'll Be in My Heart."</div><div><br></div><div>And what actually charted? Looking solely at the Top 40, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" was the #3 song of the whole year, while "When You Believe" charted at #16. Any other movie songs? Unsurprisingly, two from the <a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-year-begins.html">Spice Girls film <i>Spice World</i></a> make it: "Too Much" at #37 and "Viva Forever" at #27. Another <i>City of Angels</i> track, The Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris" hit #8 - how many people <i>remember</i> that that song is from <i>City of Angels</i>? Puff Daddy and Jimmy Page's collab <a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-wilde-things.html">for <i>Godzilla</i></a>, "Come with Me," was #35, though the fact that it's basically Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" with Puff Daddy lyrics would have made it ineligible for any Original Song categories. And"Ghetto Superstar (That is What You Are)" was #15 for the year - the single made its debut in <a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-wilde-things.html">the Warren Beatty political satire <i>Bulworth</i></a>, of all things. Also, while Faith Hill's "This Kiss" was not written <a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-death-to-death.html">for <i>Practical Magic</i></a> - indeed, it came out a full eight months before the movie - once you see <i>Practical Magic</i>, the song forever becomes part of <i>Practical Magic</i>. And yes, it falls just outside the Top 40 at #41, but who doesn't want to see this?:</div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jWgdwOtUIEY?si=UukTAhU4un90wOiq" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br></div><div><br></div><div>So what actually <i>was</i> at the Oscars? Here:</div><div></div><span></span><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-best-original-song.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-5360892913768159902023-10-22T07:30:00.003-07:002023-11-07T22:35:24.565-08:001998: Best Actor<div>Another week of 1998 Oscaring begins! We've covered <a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-best-supporting-actor.html">James Coburn's late-career Oscar triumph</a>, <a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-best-supporting-actress.html">Judi Dench's brief screen time resulting in the win</a>, and <a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-scores.html">an unusual music split</a>. Today, we look back at Best Actor, won for the first time by non-English-language performance:</div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ybgg4H4zTHo?si=obyx6KWIAoO-lyCt" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br></div><div><br></div><div>Some people - mostly the cinephiles and Oscar folks - look back in retrospect and just cannot believe <i>Life is Beautiful</i> was such a triumph: not just <i>seven</i> Academy Award nominations, but three <i>wins</i>! This does not happen with non-US/UK films. In the 25 years since Benigni's win, only <i>two</i> "foreign language" performances have been nominated for Best Actor, Javier Bardem in <i>Biutiful</i> and Antonio Banderas in <i>Pain and Glory</i>. Neither were from Best Picture nominees, neither won (two other bilingual performances have been nominated, too: Demián Bichir in <i>A Better Life</i> and Steven Yeun in Best Picture nominee <i>Minari</i>; again, neither won, and both are US productions about the immigrant experience). That Benigni could break through on <i>such</i> a level ... it's a testament to tenacity of US distributor Miramax, run at the time by Harvey Weinstein, but those of us who were around 25 years ago remember how genuinely popular it was. My own fourth-grade teacher talked about it, my aunts recommended it, <a href="https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/life-is-beautiful-1998">Ebert gave it</a> three-and-a-half stars...it was a hit! Trust me, no one had heat going into Oscar night like he did.</div><div><br></div><div>But <i>was</i> his the best performance? Let's talk...</div><span></span><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-best-actor.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-59426678053946506932023-10-20T09:11:00.000-07:002023-10-20T09:11:14.629-07:001998: The Scores<div>To close out the week, we're looking at <i>two</i> categories: Best Original Musical Or Comedy Score and Best Drama Score.</div><div><br></div><div>The Best Original Musical Or Comedy Score has its antecedents, of course, in the Original Song Score, Original Musical Score, and Adaptation Score categories, categories separate from Original Score or (briefly) Original Drama Or Comedy Score to delineate between wholly new compositions, orchestrations of previously existing music, and musicals written for the screen. The last time any of these were used was 1984, when Prince won for <i>Purple Rain</i>. Just 11 years later, the Academy, reportedly in response to Disney's domination of the Song <i>and</i> Score categories since 1989's <i>The Little Mermaid</i>, once again came up with an alternate honor for musicals. The weird thing is, comedies were mixed in this time, even though they're not similar approaches at all: a score for a comedy is still a score, different from composing music and lyrics that are later adapted into underscore. The category only lasted four ceremonies, with this one being its last:</div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X7WD2b1fzA4?si=drk7jzDPpQWU4V_w" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br></div><div><br></div><div>Listen to the scores and you tell me who should've won:</div><div><br></div><span></span><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-scores.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-53267161021643417982023-10-19T04:31:00.002-07:002023-10-19T04:31:24.805-07:001998: Best Supporting Actress<div>Following <a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-best-supporting-actor.html">James Coburn's triumph</a> in Best Supporting Actor, Gwyneth Paltrow named her <i>Shakespeare in Love</i> cohorts the winners for Best Art Direction, while fellow Elizabethan drama <i>Elizabeth</i> walked away with Best Makeup. "Election Night (Valgaften)" and "Bunny" were named Best Live Action Short and Best Animated Short, respectively. And now comes Robin Williams to present Best Supporting Actress.</div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qbbpFI8Qge8?si=fuZN0WXf5II6L7wC" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br></div><div><br></div><div>Did the right one win? My thoughts:</div><span></span><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-best-supporting-actress.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-65102980750688094072023-10-18T04:26:00.000-07:002023-10-18T04:26:53.121-07:001998: Best Supporting Actor<div>Having discussed many of the yeat's releases, we finally get down to the 71st Academy Awards, starting with the first award of the night: Best Supporting Actor. Everyone here won something: Duvall got the Screen Actors Guild honor, Thorton won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award, Rush would win the British Academy Award a month later, Harris won both the Golden Globe <i>and</i> the National Board of Review, and Coburn, the man who'd spent 45 years in the business, won the Oscar. A surprise to him, clearly:</div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yIxcwTWJPo8?si=mKmMnTsSKXD2yBd_" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br></div><div><br></div><div></div><div>A deeper look at the nominees:</div><span></span><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-best-supporting-actor.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-70619120157106874982023-10-17T16:28:00.001-07:002023-10-17T16:28:50.782-07:001998: Final Four<div>Say what you will for last-minute release dates, all four of these films went to be nominated for Oscars - impressive especially for <i>Affliction</i>, considering it first screened at the <i>1997 </i>Venice Film Festival the previous September! That's a long time to keep the buzz going, but hey, it made it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHGYlKNusDnDYONaaCryFKiG9blClwiZCvH3gX_ug-0DnM3uehDkjqKo0J8QsoFvtmn6Cu0y3t9KsIOqMCeR03BaEGEKxkJcBOk0WLx0KcqZOda4ii3q8WvPXKgTk0tUSa4GhzSFFrHatNo9TQNpA63XSqJ03FAaqd6DPYMpYnG-GtZtNrSqJTk2o29pw/s720/mighty.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="720" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHGYlKNusDnDYONaaCryFKiG9blClwiZCvH3gX_ug-0DnM3uehDkjqKo0J8QsoFvtmn6Cu0y3t9KsIOqMCeR03BaEGEKxkJcBOk0WLx0KcqZOda4ii3q8WvPXKgTk0tUSa4GhzSFFrHatNo9TQNpA63XSqJ03FAaqd6DPYMpYnG-GtZtNrSqJTk2o29pw/s320/mighty.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Mighty Joe Young</i></div><div style="text-align: center;">release: December 25</div><div style="text-align: center;">nominee: Best Visual Effects</div><div><br /></div><div>Christmas continues, this is the <i>fourth</i> release for the day! Remake of the 1949 film about a large gorilla and the girl who grew up with him; here, to protect him from poachers, he is moved to a Los Angeles animal sanctuary - but of course, a villain from the past returns. The VFX hold up <i>impressively</i>: I truly believe that giant gorilla is there playing hide-and-seek with Charlize Theron. Theron, of course, has great chemistry with the much older Bill Paxton, but they are two of the most charismatic screen presences - as witness the wonderful way they perform against the CGI Joe. Solid big studio entertainment.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjBEY3cXYP2S1Op_35KbvqUxiYjgTjvgl1RM23I_ivykkYgbbsGhHPUX89dBdOy6v5Tt4sbr2OQ9y94gEMRkvl_lc0u8ROAvlNMB6dFBCwDc2hXE_xlXvnRJiGr6bMOg-Hfosvv43EahJjqrO75QHqhYmQDypKQqKrKEEZojJEMKnZM5w7OSl5WuNHxBk/s1087/patch.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="1087" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjBEY3cXYP2S1Op_35KbvqUxiYjgTjvgl1RM23I_ivykkYgbbsGhHPUX89dBdOy6v5Tt4sbr2OQ9y94gEMRkvl_lc0u8ROAvlNMB6dFBCwDc2hXE_xlXvnRJiGr6bMOg-Hfosvv43EahJjqrO75QHqhYmQDypKQqKrKEEZojJEMKnZM5w7OSl5WuNHxBk/s320/patch.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Patch Adams</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>release:</b> December 25</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>nominee:</b> Best Original Musical or Comedy Score</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The true story of a medico who wanted to heal chiefly through personal connection - including, yes, laughter. Didn't think it was <i>so</i> bad, just rote, then they invented a fictional girlfriend that gets murdered and while inventing drama for a "true" story is par for the course, surely inventing <i>trauma</i> and <i>a full murder</i> goes beyond the pale, especially as it relates to people struggling with mental health issues? Gross!</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmSUzUOWtWKnApSAPvbh6ilf7NcFk1l06wdY7RYmLDOQKJVSrqPKajoMM1IrwkkRhyphenhyphenHrvtbw5IG_IfeF_JRKs4t4q5_2B2EjJ6oGUFb4N_yyBhpEjDcVe86puHoxB-r2V60xDxM5QYo83ftTISV1nM-p2nALKeOdaY7HoXwB6oTV4mdHYEX9qKcwIDKnk/s450/afflictio.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="450" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmSUzUOWtWKnApSAPvbh6ilf7NcFk1l06wdY7RYmLDOQKJVSrqPKajoMM1IrwkkRhyphenhyphenHrvtbw5IG_IfeF_JRKs4t4q5_2B2EjJ6oGUFb4N_yyBhpEjDcVe86puHoxB-r2V60xDxM5QYo83ftTISV1nM-p2nALKeOdaY7HoXwB6oTV4mdHYEX9qKcwIDKnk/s320/afflictio.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Affliction</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>release:</b> December 30</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>winner:</b> Best Supporting Actor (James Coburn)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>nominee:</b> Best Actor (Nick Nolte)</div><div><br /></div><div>A small-town cop with demons starts to suspect bigger things are afoot in his community as he investigates a hunter's death. The story of a man so terrified of becoming his father that he is determined to try to prove himself a good man, the <i>only</i> man who can stand up for and uncover the truth...even as his obsession drives him deeper into a despair that, of course, draws him closer to his father than he'd like to be. An involving portrait of mental disintegration.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0EoWs-bU2n8rOOWQHpp8Sjt7tl9dFLZpSoRME8dn_uzUrx_En0IH5oe1aQESrhYnTdfzoGls3ErKUjB759t7fAklBeCTArnQXR-rEHjwMlfeFTL2SRvB5w14A7qx-BV7qeJoocs6FsZHkr2M7GHhsLPUy9-FlF3Lci7rzAY-pMmFLqfDg9ZgQfmFdY9U/s600/hilary.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="600" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0EoWs-bU2n8rOOWQHpp8Sjt7tl9dFLZpSoRME8dn_uzUrx_En0IH5oe1aQESrhYnTdfzoGls3ErKUjB759t7fAklBeCTArnQXR-rEHjwMlfeFTL2SRvB5w14A7qx-BV7qeJoocs6FsZHkr2M7GHhsLPUy9-FlF3Lci7rzAY-pMmFLqfDg9ZgQfmFdY9U/s320/hilary.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Hilary and Jackie</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>release:</b> December 30</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>nominee: </b>Best Actress (Emily Watson), Best Supporting Actress (Rachel Griffiths)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Bio of sister musicians Hilary and Jackie du Pré, with Jackie and her struggle with loneliness, fame, and multiple sclerosis being the central focus. Never heard of them before, movie does a poor job making them interesting, impressive considering they share a husband for a season. Anand Tucker does some whoo-ee things with the camera to keep things interesting, but it's more distracting than anything. The actors are doing their job. Not a good movie.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>That just leaves the five films nominated for Best Picture. And we'll get to them, eventually. First, let's take a look at the individual nominees, starting tomorrow with Best Supporting Actor: James Coburn (<i>Affliction</i>), Robert Duvall (<i>A Civil Action</i>), Ed Harris (<i>The Truman Show</i>), Geoffrey Rush (<i>Shakespeare in Love</i>), and Billy Bob Thornton (<i>A Simple Plan</i>). </div><div><br /></div><center><b>You May Also Enjoy:</b></center>
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<div class="fb-like" data-href="http://www.facebook.com/SilverScreeningRoom" data-send="false" data-show-faces="true" data-width="500"></div>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-35790194343280114232023-10-16T08:09:00.003-07:002023-10-16T08:09:46.376-07:001998: Holiday Hits<div>Past years, you can see a good spreading of the wealth when it comes to release dates for Oscar nominees. As we go further along through the 90s and 00s, you'll notice a <i>lot</i> of nominees come from the last two months of the year...the time when ballots go out and so whatever's fresh in the memory gets their box ticked. Of the following 14 films, <i>seven</i> were nominated for Academy Awards. Deservedly so? You tell me...</div><span></span><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-holiday-hits.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-512786201076488782023-10-15T12:02:00.002-07:002023-10-15T12:02:23.394-07:001998: Death to Death<div>It <i>is</i> October, so why not get into the spooky season with tales of death, ghosts, family secrets, witchcraft - why, even two actual horror movies!</div><span></span><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-death-to-death.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-61385052939082029002023-10-12T08:27:00.001-07:002023-10-12T08:27:54.209-07:001998: Summer Hits<div>We've seen <i><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-year-begins.html">Wild Things</a></i> and <a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-wilde-things.html"><i>Wilde</i> things</a>, so let's get on to blockbusters - not just action ones, but comedy, too!</div><span></span><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-summer-hits.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-66769924239535995352023-10-10T12:41:00.005-07:002023-10-10T12:43:39.500-07:001998: Wilde Things<div>I had wanted to begin in the month of April, when <i>Lost in Space</i> - starring William Hurt, in his third of <i>four</i> 1998 films - finally dethroned <i>Titanic</i> to take the #1 spot at the weekend box office. But, timing and availability difficulties worked against me, and so now I must skip a William Hurt film and go straight to May, beginning with...</div><span></span><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-wilde-things.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-42754207000556045342023-10-09T07:16:00.002-07:002023-10-09T08:46:35.904-07:001998: The Year Begins<div>With this 1998 retrospective, we complete what we started over a year ago: watching every Shakespeare film nominated for Best Picture. <i>Shakespeare in Love</i> is not based on the Bard directly, of course, but given that it weaves <i>Two Gentlemen of Verona</i>, <i>Romeo and Juliet</i>, and <i>Twelfth Night</i> into a story centered on the man himself...well, come on, it belongs here. Besides, 2023 also happens to be 25 years <i>since</i> 1998! A whole quarter century!</div><div><br></div><div>I turned nine in 1998, and while I don't remember seeing a <i>lot</i> of releases in the theater - one was, after all, at the mercy of parents - I'm pretty sure I saw at least six. There was <i>A Bug's Life</i>, which I saw before they added "bloopers" to the end credits; <i>Everest</i>, a Father's Day treat at the local IMAX (one of the last films my dad saw in a theater, followed by lunch at Creolina's); <i>Paulie</i>; <i>The Prince of Egypt</i>; <i>Spice World</i>, which my sister and her then-boyfriend took me to; and <i>The Truman Show</i>, my first foray into "grownup" cinema. Most 1998 films I wound up seeing through the 00s on home video. Some of those I rewatched for this project, some I didn't, and therefore won't count them towards the "movie count," my memory of them being extremely vague...and 25 years old. Mostly, I took the opportunity to watch films I hadn't seen before. Not just Oscar nominees, but stuff like the <i>Godzilla</i> remake or <i>Happiness </i>or <i>There's Something About Mary</i>.</div><div><br></div><div>So, where do we start? Well, hell, where does the year usually start? It starts in January...</div><span></span><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/10/1998-year-begins.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-2044536747598506792023-10-04T08:12:00.000-07:002023-10-04T08:12:46.259-07:00Coming Soon: 1998!<div>Starting Sunday it's the 25th anniversary of...everything! Yes, We're looking at the films of 1998, including these 32 films nominated at the 71st Academy Awards.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXGbmbiaW6Iav76OxosDz-0pFDyakhyphenhyphenz3yGm3TmOpjCOMvnhQQaW_qkD6owF52FuvhfnnwlwgDPmAhdM_u4bpx1Fw5dGI461jQZlEOl15153b3ImCdCvJpFEXFNftMo-fmnnKezvH5KVvtXZI0ZM7AhMqcM0M-4LqrzNFMzEKOsSl8eTiKpHQjs_i4tWE/s1200/affliction.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="817" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXGbmbiaW6Iav76OxosDz-0pFDyakhyphenhyphenz3yGm3TmOpjCOMvnhQQaW_qkD6owF52FuvhfnnwlwgDPmAhdM_u4bpx1Fw5dGI461jQZlEOl15153b3ImCdCvJpFEXFNftMo-fmnnKezvH5KVvtXZI0ZM7AhMqcM0M-4LqrzNFMzEKOsSl8eTiKpHQjs_i4tWE/w136-h200/affliction.jpeg" width="136" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVkD42hyIxp0W7pe1Ow2I-AMXLaibOtmQJF9aZu7jjizwF9V83iYDK92E-n6wSxFYRGZPuNlh5zEM2_wlAne6mZrQiq45shrreztwQz_EWjPV7CQq1-l61dL6WzWkFXqNDA3xQ4Gvx6wpCykwMaez61Ra5h5ynYT2ieS9RaDqRfVrZVdDbhFzdwMZ9RSM/s1000/american.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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<div class="fb-like" data-href="http://www.facebook.com/SilverScreeningRoom" data-send="false" data-show-faces="true" data-width="500"></div>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-48038446909002465642023-08-31T12:19:00.000-07:002023-08-31T12:19:34.300-07:00The 1984 Retro Hollmann Awards: The Winners, Part Two<div><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/08/the-1984-retro-hollmann-awards-winners.html">Part One yesterday</a>. Today, we complete the 1984 Retro Hollmann Awards - the fiftieth Hollmann Awards overall! Keep reading to see my picks for the year's Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Score - and Best Picture of the Year:</div><span></span><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/08/the-1984-retro-hollmann-awards-winners_31.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4322835765225560186.post-50160882096900487022023-08-30T13:28:00.004-07:002023-08-30T14:12:10.895-07:00The 1984 Retro Hollmann Awards: The Winners, Part One<div><div>Here we are - <i>and on time</i> - the first half of the 1984 Retro Hollmann Awards!</div><div><br></div><div>These first nine winners are more than just my favorites from films made ~40 years ago. Combine the contemporary and retro editions, and this makes, overall, the <i>Fiftieth </i>Hollmann Awards! </div><div><br></div><div>Here are the first nine 1984 Retro Hollmann Awards winners, starting with the <i>fiftieth</i> winner for Best Director:</div><span></span></div><a href="http://www.silverscreeningroom.com/2023/08/the-1984-retro-hollmann-awards-winners.html#more">Click Here to Read More »</a>Walter L. Hollmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13636732594078157905noreply@blogger.com0