Awards, Ideology, and Cultural Memory: How Institutions Shape Legacy
Oscar dream evaporates .. Cinema theaters reject the “Irish” film
Netflix executives were surprised to announce that major cinema chains were reluctant to release their upcoming film The Irishman a few weeks before its release.
According to IndyWire, some did so in the belief that digital broadcasting platforms were a threat to the world of cinema, but the motive behind others was their objection to Netflix’s decision to screen the film only three weeks after it was released in cinemas. Producers and studios have agreed to give the film exclusivity to theaters over a period of 90 days, before moving to live streaming platforms, which in turn provides an opportunity for financial gain for theater owners or even studios.
This is what Netflix is trying to circumvent year after year by offering works that capture the most important awards, in addition to attracting heavyweights at the box office, in order to please Hollywood and cinemas.
Do you qualify for the Oscars? This unexpected change in plans, put the film in a dilemma and raised a lot of question marks about his chance to run for the Oscar, the work, although one of the strongest competitors in this year’s race, and is expected to be nominated for the award for best film and best director, one of the rules to qualify for the Academy Awards requires the continuation of the film for a period not Less than seven days in Los Angeles cinemas.
In an effort to save the situation as much as possible, Netflix was set to release from early November to early December at Schubert’s Pelasco Theater in New York City, making it the first screening of the 112-year-old foundation.
Netflix plans to install theater equipment at the highest level of the theater as it can accommodate 1016 seats, with the film screening eight times a week between Sunday and Tuesday in addition to intermittent weekend shows, as well as individual performances in some of the Netflix-friendly cinemas in order to give the work a slightly wider spread on Local level.
Netflix flirt Although these offers would allow the work to be eligible for the Oscar nomination, it is not what Netflix dreamed of doing so much. Although it seems to have absorbed the wrath of director Martin Scorsese after the decision to perform at the theater of Pelasco, a move described by the site “The Virg” flirtation and give the director a sense of satisfaction.
Scorsese said he was aware of the loss he had suffered from the loss of so many great New York City theaters, including individual cinemas, but that does not negate the fact that the show at the historic Pelasco theater is a very exciting experience and a unique opportunity.
Mass production The Irishman is one of the most anticipated films of this year in general and Netflix in particular, on the one hand, is the largest production in the history of the company with a budget of two hundred million dollars, on the other hand includes crew names such as Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci.
The film premiered with the opening of the 2019 New York Film Festival a few days ago and was well-received by critics. His offer to Netflix is set for November 27.
The work, based on a true story of the 1970s, has since been a mystery in American history about the disappearance of former trade union chief Jimmy Hoffa, in which Mafia boss Frank Sheeran was involved, leaving the incident pending unanswered to this day.
10 strange information about the Nobel Prize
The eyes of the world are turning to Sweden this week, awaiting the completion of the winners of the Nobel Prizes, the most famous and exciting competition.
He announced that three scientists (American and Swiss) won this year’s physics award for their contribution to a better understanding of the emergence of the universe and the “position of the earth in the universe.” And Japanese to develop their “lithium-ion” batteries.
While observers await the announcement of the Nobel Prizes in literature, peace, and economics, it is worth paying attention to the history of this prestigious award, and to stop at ten information about the award may seem strange:
1 – The prize was founded on the will of the Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, but many may be unaware of the story.
It is said that a French newspaper mistakenly published the news of Nobel’s death under the title of “Death of a Merchant of Death”. To invest his wealth and allocate its profits to rewards that benefit humanity so that generations remind him of the best of death. Alfred Nobel died of a stroke in 1896, and his will was implemented to fulfill his wish.
2 – French poet Renier Soleil was the first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901, thus starting from the first season criticism of the donor academy, where Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy was the most likely candidate in the opinion of most writers of his era.
3 – Winners whose names are announced are required to present a letter at the award ceremony. There are very strict and precise rules for selecting winners’ clothes and ceremony ceremonies, including a dinner and a dancing concert. The text of the letter must be delivered to the Nobel Academy more than 24 hours in advance to allow it to be translated into Swedish, and possibly also to be scrutinized.
4- The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre rejected the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964 and presented the media with a letter explaining its reasons, including his rejection of all forms of institutions.
5- In 1988, the physicist Leon Lederman sold his prize to an unknown person through the auction house to cover the expenses of his treatment of dementia. He received $ 765 thousand for it, which shocked and saddened the scientific community.
6- Contrary to what many believe, the awards are not always awarded for scientific discoveries or achievements that occurred in the same year, but the average time difference between 20 and 30 years, and the longest waiting time of 50 years when he received the award of medicine in 1966 for his work On viruses that can cause tumors.
7- In 1953, it was announced that the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature after writing his memoirs of World War II in 12 volumes. The award was compensation to Churchill, who was a strong candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize eight years earlier and did not win.
8- The 1997 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to US economists Robert Merton and Meron Scholes in recognition of their opening up new horizons in economic valuations, according to the academy’s statement, but the funds and financial companies that have applied their theory have lost billions of dollars. Experts.
9- Nine months after taking office, former US President Barack Obama was surprised to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009. He himself was surprised, and many were surprised by the decision, given that Obama had achieved little to achieve peace and was not yet completed. His first year at the White House.
10- Last year, the Nobel Prize for Literature was withheld after a sex scandal that rocked the Swedish Academy, where 18 women made sexual harassment allegations against French photographer Jean-Claude Arnaud, who is married to a former Academy member.
#### The anniversary of the death of Guevara
Today, October 9, is the 52nd anniversary of the departure of the Argentinian activist Che Guevara, one of the most important revolutionary and political faces, which has become an icon of the political and human struggle. The death of Che Guevara multiple visions.
Che 1969 Produced in Hollywood two years after the execution of Guevara, it was played by Egyptian actor Omar El Sherif. The film covers the life of Che Guevara from the time he arrived in Cuba in 1956 until his death in Bolivia in 1967. At the time of his release, the film faced much criticism for appearing as a commercial investment for the name of Che Guevara and did not really care about the most influential Cuban revolution of the 1960s.
The filmmakers made no effort to present Guevara’s ideas, and director Richard Fleischer was keen to remain neutral throughout the film, without the support or bias of the revolution.
Motorcycle Diary 2004 This film is one of the most famous films on the character of Che Guevara, where he played in his twenties Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal (Gael Garcia Bernal) based on the personal notes of Che about his day’s medical student.
The film tells the story of an 8,000-mile motorcycle journey from Argentina to Peru, carried out by Guevara with his friend Alberto Granada in 1952, a period when Guevara was not a fighter, but it represents the period of political transformation that took place after the trip as a result of the scenes of poverty, cruelty and injustice He found it in Latin American countries.
The hand of Che Guevara 2006 A Dutch documentary, produced in 2006, long after Che Guevara’s death, shows how Che captured the imagination of world cinema. Unlike other films, the film does not address the story of his life, but his death. The film tries to track the location of the hand and find out its location.
The film is based on several stories of many people, each showing himself as the main character, especially with the highly sensitive tragic narrative method, eventually showing history as a large mosaic panel complemented by different pieces of different people.
Chi .. Rise and fall A Spanish documentary directed by Argentine director Eduardo Montes Bradley, filmed entirely in Cuba, about the time when Che Guevara’s remains were moved from Bolivia to Santa Clara where he was buried.
The filmmakers sought to identify Che’s real-life instead of imagining it by including real archival footage of the transfer of the remains of Guevara, as well as testimonies of gunmen and close friends of Guevara, including Alberto Granada and three members of his bodyguards, who told their memories with him, which resembles Transforming oral history into a documented date rather than losing it to the storytellers.
Che 2008 The film relies heavily on Che’s diary, so it is not written from a historical standpoint standing with or against Che, but it is closer to an epic biography, directed by director Steven Soderberg. The film was presented in two parts and won numerous awards, and images in a vibrant cinematic style.
The first part deals with the Cuban Revolution until the fall of Fidel Castro. The second part deals with Guevara’s support for the Bolivian revolution and the end of Guevara until his execution. The film is, in general, the crux of Latin American politics in the 1950s and 1960s.
Soderberg made the film entirely in filming and editing, showing a great integration of all the elements of the film, especially when watching the two parts together for 258 minutes, or approximately four and a half hours, during which Soderberg embodied a series of events and tales very complex and crazy.