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The Oscars: Hollywood’s proudest, most self-aggrandizing pageant, a prom and a graduation rolled into one. “The Oscar”: A 1966 film, with a script by the prolific science-fiction writer Harlan Ellison, depicting the sleazy machinations of a vapid, selfish actor to redeem himself by winning a golden statuette. The film, its cast packed with stars—Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Tony Bennett, Milton Berle, Ernest Borgnine, Joseph Cotten—some of them Oscar winners, was an overblown, A-list flop, a “Gigli” for the ages. In the Times, Bosley Crowther called it a “cheap, synthetic film which dumps filth upon the whole operation of Hollywood.” The Academy, which lent the film its logo and its blessing, apparently regretted it, and has not done so since.
For decades, the practically unwatchable film was largely unseeable, an unrestored embarrassment buried in the Paramount archives. “There’s a samizdat quality,” Erik Nelson, a filmmaker who made a documentary about Ellison, said. “Like ‘Fahrenheit 451,’ fans would be passing around copies and reciting the dialogue.” This Oscar week, an art-house distributor will release a remastered, wide-screen, HD version. “For us, it’s like finding the lost reels of ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ or Erich von Stroheim’s nine-hour cut of ‘Greed,’ ” Nelson
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Auteurs in the Arena: Anthony Mann’s The Fall of the Roman Empire
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It’s thumb’s up and thumb’s down for Mann’s sprawling, fascinating, multi-auteur epic that inspired “bone-headed” imitations from Ridley Scott (Gladiator) and Mel Gibson (Braveheart)
It’s difficult to think of an unpopular film by a major Hollywood auteur more ambitious or awe-inspiring than Anthony Mann’s The Fall of the Roman Empire. Certainly it was one of the most ambitious films of any kind in terms of production: not only was it one of the most expensive ever made, with the largest set ever built, but it was made entirely outside the studio system. It was the penultimate achievement of Samuel Bronston’s independent production company, and, today, it is more well known for bankrupting Bronston than it is for any artistic achievement. Its massive financial failure was probably inevitable, considering how difficult it would be to turn a profit on such an over-budgeted colossus under even ideal circumstances, but, after a lukewarm reception at Cannes and a handful of snarky reviews from the likes of Bosley Crowthe