EPISODE · May 2, 2021 · 52 MIN
The Moonlight Awards: 1950
from The Moonlight Awards · host Aaron Keck
We're officially entering our third decade, and this year is a big one: All About Eve won the Oscar, but Sunset Boulevard is a bona fide classic - and Akira Kurosawa also released Rashomon in 1950 too. All three have stood the test of time, no doubt - but which of the three has best stood the test of time? Join Rachel Schaevitz and Aaron Keck as they discuss the year in cinema, the allure of seedy Hollywood stories, Bette Davis, Gloria Swanson, Toshiro Mifune, postwar pessimism, the return of Luis Buñuel, the artificiality of noir, and just how much of a jerk Humphrey Bogart really was - and then we dig into the data and the numbers (and our expert panel votes) to identify the best picture of 1950. The nominees are All About Eve, In A Lonely Place, Los Olvidados, Rashomon, and Sunset Boulevard. Who wins the Moonlight?
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We're officially entering our third decade, and this year is a big one: All About Eve won the Oscar, but Sunset Boulevard is a bona fide classic - and Akira Kurosawa also released Rashomon in 1950 too. All three have stood the test of time, no doubt - but which of the three has best stood the test of time? Join Rachel Schaevitz and Aaron Keck as they discuss the year in cinema, the allure of seedy Hollywood stories, Bette Davis, Gloria Swanson, Toshiro Mifune, postwar pessimism, t...
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