Success or Snub? Ben-Hur (32nd Academy Awards Review Pt. 2)
To see part 1, click here . O Nosso Amor~Tamburine & Accordion - Orfeu Negro Ben-Hur was a capstone to the Biblical epics of the Golden Age of Hollywood. I would call it the ending point this trend but that isn’t true as they did keep making these types of movies all throughout the 60s. It was, however, the last time that a film like this would be such a mammoth success as later Biblical epics would crash and burn in spectacular fashions. But while Ben-Hur was knocking records and showing off everything that Hollywood studios were able to do, other films were pushing boundaries in new ways and showing where things could be going during the course of the revolutionary decade to come (a.k.a. the 60s). Of particular importance in this regard was foreign cinema which exploded in a big way with the French New Wave. We’ve been mentioning this for a few blogs now and, now, it’s finally time to talk about it. The French New Wave is probably the most significant gear chang...