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It's July and the 'Movie of the Month' in The Large Association of Movie Blogs is The Conversation. In line with this trend, I have selected 1974 as our next round in the breathtaking fight between Oscars and Cannes, which marks a unique rivalry between two great films by Francis Ford Coppola: The Conversation and The Godfather: Part II.
Dominated by Coppola in terms of prestigious awards, 1974 is a momentous year in filmmaking; it's a year in which people got to watch masterpieces like Chinatown and aforementioned two movies, cult films such as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre; comedies such as Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein (both of which were listed on 'The LAMB's Top 10 Comedies' recently), classics like The Man With The Golden Gun and The Sugarland Express (an early film by Spielberg which was like the harbringer of his directorial talents).
Aside from all these films, 1974 is the single year in the whole history of cinema that two films by the same director won the biggest awards in both Cannes Film Festival and Academy Awards. This provides us a great basis for analysis and discussion in terms of similarities, differences and unique characters of both awards organizations in question. From the career of Coppola, which has produced only a handful of films, why have Cannes and Oscars gone for different films in the same year? What are the factors behind this obvious discrepancy?
Stop by for two seconds (no longer, I promise) and vote your own pick from these two films, and contribute to our complementary article which I hope will be around here towards the end of July (in order to catch up with the 'Movie of the Month' feature in LAMB).
Meanwhile, my recent holiday caused an unwanted delay in the previous year 1994. An article, comparing and contrasting Pulp Fiction with Forrest Gump will be here very soon. Stay tuned and thanks for your patience.
Dominated by Coppola in terms of prestigious awards, 1974 is a momentous year in filmmaking; it's a year in which people got to watch masterpieces like Chinatown and aforementioned two movies, cult films such as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre; comedies such as Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein (both of which were listed on 'The LAMB's Top 10 Comedies' recently), classics like The Man With The Golden Gun and The Sugarland Express (an early film by Spielberg which was like the harbringer of his directorial talents).
Aside from all these films, 1974 is the single year in the whole history of cinema that two films by the same director won the biggest awards in both Cannes Film Festival and Academy Awards. This provides us a great basis for analysis and discussion in terms of similarities, differences and unique characters of both awards organizations in question. From the career of Coppola, which has produced only a handful of films, why have Cannes and Oscars gone for different films in the same year? What are the factors behind this obvious discrepancy?
Stop by for two seconds (no longer, I promise) and vote your own pick from these two films, and contribute to our complementary article which I hope will be around here towards the end of July (in order to catch up with the 'Movie of the Month' feature in LAMB).
Meanwhile, my recent holiday caused an unwanted delay in the previous year 1994. An article, comparing and contrasting Pulp Fiction with Forrest Gump will be here very soon. Stay tuned and thanks for your patience.
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