Wilde

"...Zoë Wanamaker and Tom Wilkinson. This film portrait of Oscar Wilde, which is based on Richard Ellman's biography of..."

June 19, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Can't Hardly Wait

This better-than-average teen sex comedy looks at a bunch of seniors on the night of high school graduation.

"...winningly directed. Nobody's going to give this one an Oscar, sure, but as far as the venerable teen sex..."

June 12, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wild Man Blues

"...Directed by: Barbara Kopple. Two-time documentary feature Oscar winner Barbara Kopple (American Dream, Harlan County, USA) has..."

June 5, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Character

"...Tamar Van Den Dop and Sting. Character, this year's Oscar winner for best foreign picture, is a Dutch epic..."

May 15, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Afterglow

"...Christie, whose work was recognized this week with an Oscar nomination. The film finds writer-director Alan Rudolph returning to..."

Feb. 13, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flamenco

"...the lens of ace cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, a three-time Oscar winner (Apocalypse Now, Reds, The Last Emperor)...."

Oct. 31, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spike & Mike's '97 Festival of Animation

"...me to the most remarkable achievement of all, the Oscar-winning A Close Shave from Brit Nick Park and his..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

La Cérémonie

"...with La Cérémonie, which earned six 1995 César (French Oscar equivalent) award nominations, including best direction, and a best..."

May 9, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Kolya

"...further strength to a movie that fully deserves its Oscar nomination for best foreign-language film. Originality, it would seem,..."

Feb. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Evening Star

"...Aurora Greenway (who else but MacLaine could reprise her Oscar-winning role?), the task of raising Emma's three children hasn't..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Kaspar Hauser

"...rewarded when his film Kaspar Hauser won the German Oscar equivalents for best film, best director, and best actor..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wallace and Gromit: The Best of Aardman Animation

"...warm-ups for this program's main attraction: Nick Park's new, Oscar-winning, 30-minute Wallace and Gromit spectacular, “A Close Shave.” A..."

June 14, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Eddie

"...been done better countless times before. For her part, Oscar-winner Goldberg drops the ball more times than Jim Carroll..."

June 7, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Anne Frank Remembered

"...adult future. Anne Frank Remembered, which just won the Oscar as the best documentary feature of 1995, reminds us..."

April 19, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ed

"...the least since the respected documentarian has won an Oscar and a Peabody for his co-direction of Common Threads:..."

March 8, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Arabian Knight

"...new animated tale is directed by Richard Williams, an Oscar-winner for his creative work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit...."

Sept. 22, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Burnt by the Sun

"...backdrop of the Russian countryside under Stalin's rule, this Oscar-winner for best foreign film is a brilliant, Chekhovian meditation..."

June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Doctor Zhivago

Directed by the modern-day king of epics, David Lean, this overlong and over-romantic Oscar-winner should be experienced by everyone at least once in a lifetime.

"...Courtenay and Alec Guinness. Admittedly, this overlong and over-romantic Oscar-winning epic has never melted my personal tundra, but it's..."

June 19, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

JLG by JLG

"...Professional) recently won the César (French equivalent of the Oscar) award as the best short of last year. It..."

June 16, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Farinelli

"...and a curse. Sumptuous to look at, this recent Oscar nominee for best foreign film has contemporary resonance --..."

June 2, 1995 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Before the Rain

Manchevski's debut film impresses with its cagey temporal structure, incredible cinematography that exposes the precipitous Macedonian landscape, beautiful performances, and a thematic structure that adds to our understanding of specific and universal issues.

"...effectively captures. This Macedonian film, which was a recent Oscar nominee and the winner of the top prize at..."

April 14, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

"The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb"

"...billed with Tom Thumb is one of this year's Oscar-winning short films, Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life, in..."

April 7, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dolores Claiborne

"...done well by King, having nabbed the best actress Oscar for her role in Misery two years ago) latches..."

March 31, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

It Happened One Night

"...the first movie ever to sweep the five major Oscar categories...."

Jan. 13, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Imaginary Crimes

"...her father (played by James Dunn, who won an Oscar for his performance) while also learning from his example..."

Dec. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Midnight Cowboy

Fueled by two riveting character studies and its exposure of New York City's seamy underbelly, this multi-Oscar-winner screams “contemporary” and “eternal” at once.

"...Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vacarro and Barnard Hughes. This multi-Oscar-winner nails its characters, time period, and locale so perfectly..."

July 22, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wolf

"...makeup (by Rick Baker, no less, who won an Oscar for his work on John Landis' An American Werewolf..."

June 24, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Little Buddha

"...East and West. Bertolucci's last three films -- the multi-Oscar-winning The Last Emperor, the North African-set The Sheltering Sky,..."

May 27, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dialogues With Madwomen

"...Light (who, with her partner Irving Saraf, won an Oscar in 1991 for her documentary In the Shadow of..."

May 13, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spike & Mike's Festival of Animation '94

"...farce. Still, the jewels compensate for it: Joan Gratz's Oscar-winning “Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase,” a tour of modern..."

Feb. 18, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

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