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26 February 2007 The 80th Annual Academy Awards: A mostly routine affair 27 February 2007 79th Academy Awards: very removed from life 24 February 2007 The "scramble for Hollywood:" the Democratic Party and entertainment industry liberals 24 January 2007 79th Academy Award nominations: a disparate group of films 3 January 2007 New York Times celebrates mindless Hollywood fare 22 March 2006 WSWS International Editorial Board meeting Artistic and cultural problems in the current situation--Part Two 21 March 2006 WSWS International Editorial Board meeting Artistic and cultural problems in the current situation--Part One 8 March 2006 78th Academy Awards: why such a poor showing? 3 March 2006 78th Academy Awards: Hollywood's new "seriousness" and its serious limitations 7 March 2005 More letters on the Academy Awards 3 March 2005 Letters on the 77th Academy Awards ceremony 1 March 2005 77th Academy Awards ceremony--a miserable showing 28 February 2006 A letter and reply on Spielberg's Munich 17 February 2006 "Progressive" Australian film critics denounce Spielberg's Munich 26 January 2005 Academy fails to nominate Fahrenheit 9/11: Hollywood's olive branch to Bush 11 January 2005 Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 takes People's Choice Award 11 November 2004 Michelangelo Antonioni--a flawed legacy Part 2 10 November 2004 Michelangelo Antonioni--a flawed legacy Part 1 2 March 2004 76th Academy Awards ceremony: for the most part, torpor and self-satisfaction 28 January 2004 Academy Award nominations: the globalization of mediocrity 9 December 2003 Australian film industry: the futility of calls for "cultural protection" 30 September 2003 Elia Kazan: director, HUAC informer dead at 94 15 September 2003 "Reality doesn't interest me..." Leni Riefenstahl--propagandist for the Third Reich 6 August 2003 Fassbinder's Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven German director's work available on DVD 16 July 2003 Katharine Hepburn, Gregory Peck and American filmmaking 25 March 2003 Iraq war dominates 75th Academy Awards Filmmaker Michael Moore denounces Bush 12 February 2003 75th Academy Award nominations: as eclectic and confounding as ever Afghan Massacre--Convoy of Death available on video Film exposing Pentagon war crimes premieres in US 20 December 2002 US actor Sean Penn visits Baghdad 26 March 2002 The 74th Academy Awards: of race, war and a lack of backbone 22 Febuary 2002 This year's Academy Awards nominations 19 November 2001 Hollywood enlists in Bush's war drive 3 July 2001 Actor Jack Lemmon dead at 76: something essential about postwar America 16 May 2001 Buenos Aires 3rd International Festival of Independent Cinema--Part 1 Filmmaking needs a new perspective 27 March 2001 The 73rd Academy Awards: Hollywood displays its wares 15 March 2001 Berlin retrospective devoted to the films of Fritz Lang 26 February 2001 Why was Stanley Kramer so unfashionable at the time of his death? 14 February 2001 The 2001 Academy Award nominations: all in all, not much 15 August 2000 "The pleasure of seeing should be the moving force" A selection of Max Ophuls films 28 March 2000 This year's Academy Awards ceremony: Hollywood in full view 20 January 2000 French filmmaker Robert Bresson (1901-1999) "When one is in prison, the most important thing is the door" 30 December 1999 Favorite artists, works and performers of the twentieth century: a survey of WSWS contributors 23 December 1999 David Walsh names his favorite films of the year and the decade 29 November 1999 How today's film industry views Orson Welles 30 October 1999 Blacklisted US film director Abraham Polonsky dead at 88 Three filmmakers who were silenced: Abraham Polonsky, Paul Carpita and Paul Meyer 25 October 1999 The films of François Truffaut David Walsh reviews a program of the filmmaker's works at the Detroit Film Theatre 2 April 1999 What were the real issues in the Elia Kazan award controversy? 24 February 1999 Hollywood honors Elia Kazan Filmmaker and informer A series of articles by David Walsh Part One Part Two Part Three Conversations with blacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernstein ... ... and director Abraham Polonsky 9 September 1998 Japanese filmmaker dead at 88 Akira Kurosawa's achievement 12 August 1998 Pennebaker and Hegedus: seminal figures in American documentary film 1 July 1998 Andrew Sarris and American filmmaking 18 June 1998 AFI's 100 Greatest Movies: Some serious questions 25 March 1998 70th Academy Awards: Long live conformism and banality! 10 March 1998 Film: David Walsh recommends many earlier Hollywood videos 17 June 1996 On what should the new cinema be based?

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