Oscars Retrospective: Marty (28th Academy Awards Review Pt. 2)
To see part 1, click here . Seven Samurai Suite~Fumio Hayasaka - Seven Samurai 1955 is possibly the greatest year of film of the 50s. Most decades seem to top out at their respective ends but the midpoint here seems to capture the essence of the decade the best. So much so that I’ll be a little honest on my thought process here and say that I was actually surprised and a little disappointed by how good Marty was. When you read the rundown of classics here (especially foreign cinema), it seems like they were all totally snubbed and I was getting ready to complain about why they should’ve won compared to some random melodrama. Imagine my surprise after watching Marty that it turned out to actually be an excellent movie that helped move the medium forward. But we don’t have to let it go down without a fight. First are some popular big-hitters. A fun piece of American history is To Hell and Back a unique war movie in that it’s a biopic about the most decorated soldier in World War