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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
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Storyline
McMurphy thinks he can get out of doing work while in prison by pretending to be mad. His plan backfires when he is sent to a mental asylum. He tries to liven the place up a bit by playing card games and basketball with his fellow inmates, but the head nurse is after him at every turn. |
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The Director
Milos FormanBorn Jan Tomas Forman in Caslav, Czechoslovakia, on February 18, 1932, a young Milos Forman lost his parents in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. He studied filmmaking in Prague and made several films in his native country during the 1960s, including his first, Magic Lantern II (1960), before leaving for America.
His first American film, Taking Off (1971), received little attention. But the follow-up, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), was an unqualified success and earned Forman a Best Director Oscar.
After adaptations of the musical "Hair" (1970) and the book Ragtime (1981), Forman directed the Mozart biography Amadeus (1984), which garnered a second Oscar for directing. He continued to strike gold in the biography genre with the Oscar-nominated The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) and Man on the Moon (1999), which chronicled the bizarre life of comedian Andy Kaufman.
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The history of the OSCARS - Best Picture Winners part III
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1970 - Patton (****)
A spirited telling of American General George S. Patton, Jr. George C. Scott gives a soulful centre to a film focused on war but really a tale of ambition and duty.
What should have won?
MASH – It’s easy to say this now but Robert Altman’s antiestablishment comedy/war film broke boundaries, challenged the US government and laid the groundwork for sound in cinema that is still being utilised today.
1971 – The French Connection (*****)
Kinetic, exciting and highly stylised. Director William Friedkin managed to capture the essence of European cinema, particularly the work of Jean-Pierre Melville and rework it for the streets of New York City to arguably more successful results.
What should have won?
The Last Picture Show – Although I respect the Academy’s decision to award as broad a genre film as The French Connection, I cannot overlook the soul, melodrama and yearning contained in Peter Bogdanovich’s ode to Old Hollywood.
1972 – The Godfather (*****)
One of, if not thee, greatest film ever made. Francis Ford Coppola’s film is about so many things. Family, duty, ambition, greed, ego, the list could really go on and on. And as with Lawrence of Arabia, the coexistence of intimacy in the face of such grand scale is remarkable. Literally everything is perfect about this film. The design, casting, performances, cinematography, editing, screenplay. A whole film school education in less than 3 hours.
What should have won?
The Godfather – No questions asked.
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reviewed by cherryflavourpez (Filmaster.com) on the 4th of March 2011
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This is one of my favorite films that are incredibly close to perfection. There is not a single aspects of this film that is not up to par. From the direction, to the performances, to the editing... everything works together so beautifully that you don't even notice how wonderful it is.