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...ghastliness, and I haven’t been encouraged recently by his frustratingly derivative war movie Saving Private Ryan and godawful sequel to the so-so Jurassic Park. Over at his five-year-old production company Dreamworks SKG, Spielberg has encouraged the production of some of the more overrated studio films in recent years, including the plodding Almost Famous and the sophomoric American Beauty. Most shamelessly, he advised pumping up a scene in The Contender with swelling, patriotic music. He is, in sum, far from the most admirable moviemaker in Hollywood...
...admit it. I collect the original Broadway cast recordings of many shows. I also collect the recordings of the original London cast. And the revival cast. And the studio cast. Often, all for the same show...
Still, the Academy’s biggest blunder is their embracing of the studio advertising machine, which sometimes allows subpar films to get in the mix (remember the horrendous Chocolat?), and subsequently breeds increased ignorance towards great small films or ones that weren’t box office hits...
...leave it to Oscar-hungry studio drones to really much things up. It’s not rare that the Hollywoodized Academy overlooks things, it’s even arguable that they represent a majority meshing of critical and public opinion. However, they don’t need to be quite as obvious about caring so little about artistic value. When it comes down to the winner of a bitter gossip match over historical accuracy, the value and long-running reverence of the Oscars is completely undermined. One thing should be asserted this year: Rather than voting based on whether...
Alex Krieger, one of the studio course’s instructors and chair of the GSD’s department of urban planning and design, said students are using the course to examine a wide variety of issues related to Harvard’s expansion...