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Post by timkimber on Mar 27, 2020 14:57:01 GMT
Inspired by Parasite winning the Best Picture earlier this year, I've started writing a blog series that compares each Oscars top accolade winner with the winner of the Best Foreign-Language Feature that same year to see how often, if at all, the Anglosphere should have lost out.
I've written two so far: 2019's Green Book versus Roma, and 2018's The Shape of Water versus A Fantastic Woman. Next is 2017's Moonlight versus Iran's The Salesman.
Interested to hear if anyone has any BFLF favourites for me to look forward to, as I run through them in reverse chronological order. There's a few big hitters that reached western audiences (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Life is Beautiful probably the most prominent besides Roma), but many of them I will be coming to completely fresh!
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post a link to the showdowns I've published so far, so I won't for now.
Thanks for your input!
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Post by Martin Stett on Mar 27, 2020 15:56:46 GMT
Go ahead and post them! It's what we do here.
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Post by stephen on Mar 28, 2020 16:04:08 GMT
Post away!
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Post by timkimber on Mar 28, 2020 16:45:30 GMT
Go ahead and post them! It's what we do here. Oh yeah? Nice! The articles are on Medium, so I'm going to try to embed a Tweet here (links to Medium from Twitter don't count as one of your 3 monthly reads on the site)… so bear with me if this doesn't work! This one is the 2019 Green Book versus Roma one: And this is the 2018 The Shape Of Water versus A Fantastic Woman: Hope you enjoy! |
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Post by timkimber on Apr 8, 2020 21:11:19 GMT
I wrote 2017's showdown: Moonlight versus The Salesman
Which do you think was best?
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Post by timkimber on Jun 11, 2020 18:59:43 GMT
Finally got round to reviewing Spotlight versus Hungarian holocaust movie Son of Saul. Good lord, that was an endeavour…
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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 11, 2020 19:31:42 GMT
Posting to remind myself to read these...
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Post by timkimber on Jul 7, 2020 10:13:32 GMT
Posting to remind myself to read these... I hope you get round to it! Here's another for your reading list: Birdman versus Ida |
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Post by timkimber on Sept 8, 2020 13:50:14 GMT
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Post by timkimber on Oct 30, 2020 11:20:48 GMT
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Post by dadsburgers on Nov 1, 2020 18:51:43 GMT
Fantastic series! My winners in the years I saw both:
2019: Green Book vs Roma
2017: Moonlight vs The Salesman
2016: Spotlight vs Son of Saul
2015: Birdman vs Ida
2014: 12 Years A Slave vs The Great Beauty
2013: Argo vs Amour
2012: The Artist vs A Separation (this is the closest one for me)
2010: The Hurt Locker vs The Secret In Their Eyes
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