tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68127577805847575692024-03-14T00:25:04.198-04:00filmicability with Dean TreadwayDean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.comBlogger580125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-69724010242186066932019-01-14T17:50:00.002-05:002019-01-20T18:00:09.500-05:00The Best Films of 2018My 2018 Ballot for The Georgia Film Critics Association:
(composed December 2018)
Georgia critics' WINNERS HIGHLIGHTED IN BOLD TYPE
Best Picture
1. A STAR IS BORN (US, Bradley Cooper)
2. IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (US, Barry Jenkins)
3. FIRST REFORMED (US, Paul Schrader)
4. VICE (US, Adam McKay)
5. LEAVE NO TRACE (US, Debra Granik)
6. ON CHESIL BEACH (UK, Dominic Cooke)
7. WON’T YOU BE MY Dean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-41926510699001420602018-09-02T02:43:00.000-04:002018-09-04T06:22:02.737-04:00The Best Cinematography in CinemaThe following is an aggregation of what I've determined to be the film world's greatest examples of CINEMATOGRAPHY spanning the years 1925-2017. This is part of my ongoing Years in Review project. In total, 572 cinematography achievements are noted here. With each year, the titles are listed in order of preference. Those in bold are those that were awarded Academy Awards that year. Dean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-45213032590267425562018-05-11T11:47:00.000-04:002018-05-24T19:24:48.329-04:00The Best Screenwriting in Cinema
The following is an aggregation of what I've determined to be the film world's greatest examples of SCREENWRITING spanning the years 1925-2017. This is part of my ongoing Years in Review project. In total, 910 screenwriting achievements are noted here. With each year, the titles are listed in order of preference. Those in bold are those that were awarded one of the constantly Dean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-28118834887176335482018-04-15T22:29:00.000-04:002018-04-19T00:14:16.488-04:00RIP Milos Forman, and an appreciation of HAIR
Recently on his site HOLLYWOOD ELSEWHERE, Jeffrey Wells confessed, in tribute to the landmark filmmaker who died this past week at age 86, that his most highly treasured Milos Forman film was a frankly unconventional and bravely accurate choice. I would expect nothing less from Mr. Wells, my very favorite movie blogger out there. And so I had to leave a comment:
"Jeff, I love thatDean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-6198346692725957332018-04-01T00:47:00.000-04:002018-04-02T07:04:53.630-04:00Film #175: Witchfinder General (aka The Conqueror Worm)
Among the horror genre’s most criminally overlooked classics, 1968’s The Conqueror Worm, which was US distributor American International's Corman-esque way of linking the film to the classic, long dead horror writer Edgar Allen Poe, in a bid for US box office success. Poe was then a big movie ticket seller and the inspiration of many Hammer horror and Corman-led vehicles like The Pit and the Dean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-47834716711391231092017-12-31T03:54:00.000-05:002018-05-01T05:50:31.757-04:00The Best Directors in CinemaThe following is an aggregation of what I've determined to be the
film world's greatest examples of FILM DIRECTION spanning the years 1925-2016.
This is part of my ongoing Years in Review
project. 720 directorial achievements are
noted here. With each year, they are listed in order of preference.
Those in bold, in the first half of this piece, are those that were
awarded the Best Direction Dean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-14599280402450322942017-11-26T03:13:00.001-05:002017-12-05T20:53:02.624-05:00The Best Female Supporting Performances in Cinema The following is an aggregation of what I've determined to be the
film world's greatest FEMALE SUPPORTING performances spanning the years 1930-2016.
This is part of my ongoing Years in Review project. 785 performances are
noted here. With each year, they are listed in order of preference.
Those in bold, in the first half of this piece, are those that were
awarded the Best Supporting Actress Dean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-31195541689407694182017-11-06T23:38:00.000-05:002017-11-11T04:22:00.556-05:00The Best Male Supporting Performances in Cinema The following is an aggregation of what I've determined to be the
film world's greatest MALE SUPPORTING performances of the years 1930-2016.
This is part of my ongoing Years in Review project. 697 performances are
noted here. With each year, they are listed in order of preference.
Those in bold, in the first half of this piece, are those that were
awarded the Best Actor Academy Award. In theDean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-6504359087369870812017-09-21T22:15:00.000-04:002018-04-03T08:40:34.747-04:00Film #175: 2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey has long been my favorite film. I first saw it at Atlanta’s Rhodes Theater early in 1977, at age ten, though I suspect I caught a glimpse of it as a younger child while visiting a drive-in with my parents. I can still remember them, numerous times over the years loudly complaining about it in a way that instantly made me want to see it. When I finally did buy a repertory Dean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-10013372422092399892017-08-28T22:57:00.001-04:002017-09-01T21:43:23.262-04:0020 Treasures from the Past: Recent Film Discoveries
Each passing year leads me to movies from previous eras that are new discoveries for me. These are my 20 most recent favorite uncovered treasures, all listed in order of preference, with ways to see each listed for your viewing convenience. Enjoy!
RAPTURE
(UK/France, 1965; dir: John Guillermin) Starring: Patricia Gozzi, Dean Stockwell,
Melvyn Douglas, Gunnel Lindblom. Dean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-51654871508448041652017-08-19T02:02:00.001-04:002018-07-16T01:35:51.140-04:00The Best Female Lead Performances in CinemaThe following is an aggregation of what I've determined to be the
film world's greatest female lead performances of the years 1925-2017.
This is part of my ongoing Years in Review project. 723 performances are
noted here. With each year, they are listed in order of preference.
Those in bold, in the first half of this piece, are those that were
awarded the Best Actress Academy Award. In the Dean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-23074412827587139582017-08-03T04:49:00.003-04:002018-07-25T19:54:15.674-04:00The Best Male Lead Performances in Cinema The following is an aggregation of what I've determined to be the film world's greatest male lead performances of the years 1925-2016. This is part of my ongoing Years in Review project. 747 performances are noted here. With each year, they are listed in order of preference. Those in bold, in the first half of this piece, are those that were awarded the Best Actor Academy Award. In the second Dean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-51042974513558775702017-07-05T02:57:00.000-04:002018-07-13T03:00:04.769-04:001050 Essential Movies: The Very Best of Each Year
This is a titles-only round-up meant to accompany my recently concluded YEARS IN REVIEW project, where I revealed my choices for the top films in each AMPAS-approved category. There are many more titles I loved in each listed year, but these mentioned here are my very favorite cinematic achievements from 1925 to 2017. Soon to come: the best performances of each year:
1925:
BATTLESHIP Dean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-29955420351738305522017-06-22T00:18:00.000-04:002017-06-24T12:47:02.809-04:00A Talk with Nicolas Cage My short conversation with Nicolas Cage was conducted over the phone, while I was sitting in the Atlanta offices of my school's newspaper. Cage, meanwhile, was in New York City, filming another of his most unusual roles as the bloodthirsty lead of Vampire's Kiss. The Georgia State University Signal published my interview with this newfound star on March 1, 1988, in connection with Norman Dean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-19973220696290658062017-06-09T00:40:00.000-04:002017-06-12T11:27:39.422-04:00A Talk with Harvey Pekar
I was instantly taken with the irascible, hilarious, and irrepressibly forthright Harvey Pekar upon seeing him, in the fall of 1986, on NBC's Late Night with David Letterman. This streetwise Cleveland comic book author, literary and music critic, and all-around raconteur became, after his rascally debut appearance, a regular visitor to Letterman's show. But, though the late-night icon Dean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-30236056435285482682017-06-04T00:26:00.000-04:002017-06-04T01:51:05.402-04:00A Talk with Arnold Schwarzenegger In celebration of the 30th anniversary of John McTiernan's sci-fi/action classic Predator, I'm reprinting the interview I conducted with Arnold Schwarzenegger in late May 1987. We met in his suite at the Atlanta Ritz-Carlton. He was dressed casually in a floral shirt, and had his trusty cigar always nearby. Shaking hands with the man was a memorable moment--I don't remember being intimidated by Dean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-76820340095632582162017-05-24T19:37:00.000-04:002017-06-04T00:33:09.106-04:00A Talk with Spike Lee This is a reprint of my interview with Spike Lee, printed in the Georgia State University's newspaper The Signal (as part of their features section Tuesday Magazine) on February 9, 1988. The interview was part of a promotional tour for Mr. Lee's then-new film School Daze, which was filmed in Atlanta, GA. The interview itself was conducted on a cold January day in a suite at Atlanta's Ritz-CarltonDean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-53408444813789599832017-05-16T20:29:00.004-04:002017-05-16T20:47:06.211-04:00Film #174: The Fountain
A dialogue:
FUTURE ME: Why are we doing this? I have work to do.
PRESENT ME: Well, I called you two here to talk about Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain.
PAST ME: One of my favorites.
FUTURE ME: Oh, I was so young in 2006. Not even forty. I was really into anything kind of trippy and obscure.
PAST ME: How did I get so cynical in my old age?
FUTURE ME: Hey, I still like it, but I don’t ever Dean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-7167868842462292832017-04-29T01:05:00.001-04:002017-05-16T21:30:02.948-04:00Film #173: Fahrenheit 451
NOTE: In the interest of full disclosure, I have yet to read Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Even though I own an autographed first edition of it (and many other sci-fi/horror books), I mostly read non-fiction, preferring to get my fiction from movies. The irony is thick here, I realize.
A few times over the past decades, I remember telling a few film lovers how much I admired Francois Dean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-81398672395220360882017-04-19T23:06:00.000-04:002017-04-23T04:55:47.280-04:00Film #172: Quatermass and the Pit
I'm surprised by the seemingly large number of rabid science-fiction fans who have never seen the Hammer Studios' classic Quatermass and the Pit. Why have they missed this essential entry in the Bristish studio's treasured output? Well, neither Christopher Lee or Peter Cushing are in it, first of all. It wasn't a major hit when it arrived in 1967. It’s been out of print on DVD for many years, Dean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-71460244588490236802017-04-12T20:11:00.000-04:002018-04-19T22:27:18.016-04:002016--The Year in ReviewAs in the past few movie years, most of 2016 felt like a bottomless nadir for cinema--I know it looks like I'm listing a lot of movies here, but the real achievers end at about the halfway mark. By
November, seeing that the studios had abandoned all good taste, and that
foreign product was nearly impossible to see, I was ready to name the
collected titles in the current TV revolution as my Dean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-84898382475412530242017-03-30T21:58:00.001-04:002018-06-22T04:19:17.304-04:002015--The Year in Review
This year I found myself bristling with disappointment at the movie
theater. With the ever-escalating number of productions being made, this
might be attributable to cinematic burnout--though I prefer to chalk it
up to refined taste. In general, I just found this year's crop of
movies to be thuddingly unimpressive (sorry to repeat an old trope, but the best
TV was way more engaging). Dean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-51728290470859231692017-03-18T00:15:00.000-04:002018-04-19T22:20:17.833-04:002014--The Year in Review At the end of 2014, I was so mesmerized by Alejandro Inarritu's genuinely wild cinematic experiment Birdman, or: The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance that its late December appearance, and Michael Keaton's slashing comeback performance, sneakily erased my admiration for the real film achievement of the year: Richard Linklater's autumnal release, a furtive production called Boyhood, filmed in Dean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-75439910422754775792017-02-19T21:43:00.000-05:002018-05-26T23:55:35.825-04:002013--The Year in Review 2013 was a fantastic year for movies. Its prime entry was the eventual winner of the Best Picture Oscar, British director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave--a film like no other and one completely of today, since this crime of
humanity has hardly been vanquished, and particularly original because
it dissects the miserable lives lived by both the enslaved and slavers.
Unflinching and highly Dean Treadwayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106829300132326368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812757780584757569.post-84806681656879534152017-02-15T00:32:00.002-05:002017-02-19T16:07:46.307-05:002012--The Year in Review Rarely
can I remember a film falling so swiftly from grace as did Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master. Met with excited
anticipation and confused raves upon its October release, but abandoned with
utter contempt only a month later, Paul Thomas Anderson's superb
character study left many viewers wondering "What went wrong?" But why?!
The picture's quality and intent was crystal clear. Joaquin
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