rec.arts.movies.past-films

In article , tomcervo wrote:
: On Feb 17, 10:27???am, Manfred Polak wrote:
:> josverst...@ wrote:

:> >I was talking to somebody the other day and he said the Best Foreign
:> >Languaged Film Oscar ALWAYS goes to pretty conservative films (in
:> >terms of film language).
:> >Would you say that that is true?

:> Very often, but surely not ALWAYS. Films like Bergman's "Through
:> a Glass Darkly", Bunuel's "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie"
:> or Fellini's "8???" are not really conservative.

: If it's a toss up, the winner usually shows how much worse they have
: it in countries other than the good ol' USA.

If I'm wrong here, I'm sure that someone will correct me, but I was
under the impression that the nominations for Best Foreign Film are the
responsibility of each country's Academy equivalent. The conservatism
of the film styles of the nominees may be the result of a self-fulfilling
prophecy -- "Since the majority of the past winners were of the popular
crowd-pleasing variety, if we want to win, we'd better nominate one of
that type of film."

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Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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