Tag: Tragedy (Page 17)
1920sWings (1927)
Wings is the first film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. It is also the only silent film to win that award.
1960sThe Lion in Winter (1968)
The Lion in Winter is one of the great chamber pieces in cinema, written as a stage play by James Goldman and adapted by him for the screen with all the dialogue intact. The film is two hours of family…
1980sExcalibur (1981)
Nicholas Clay plays Lancelot. What makes the film unusual is that Boorman shoots the legend as the legend instead of as a historical drama.
1940sMighty Joe Young (1949)
Mighty Joe Young is the film where Ray Harryhausen learned what he would spend the rest of his career doing. Willis O'Brien, the stop-motion pioneer who had created King Kong in 1933, was the credited animator.
1950s20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
20 Million Miles to Earth is the Harryhausen film set in Italy. William Hopper plays Colonel Robert Calder, an astronaut.
1980sGlory (1989)
Matthew Broderick plays Colonel. Denzel Washington won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar playing Private Trip, a runaway slave with no patience for white officers.
1990sDragonheart (1996)
Dennis Quaid plays Bowen, a former knight of the old code who hunts dragons for a living after his pupil grew up to be a tyrant. The film made approximately one hundred and fifteen million dollars worldwide on a fifty-seven…
AdaptationGame of Thrones (2011-2019)
Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels. Sean Bean as Ned Stark in the first season.
1950sThe Red Badge of Courage (1951)
The studio, MGM, cut the film roughly in half after disastrous preview screenings. Lillian Ross's book Picture, a long-form New Yorker series about the making of the film, has become more famous than the film itself.
2010s
1980sHighlander (1986)
Highlander is one of the strangest mainstream studio films of the 1980s and one of the most influential fantasy films of the decade. Clancy Brown plays the Kurgan, the giant Mongol-Russian immortal who killed Ramirez and has spent four hundred…