Director Sam Mendes based the plot of 1917 on a World War I story told to him long ago by a veteran of the trenches — his Trinidadian novelist grandfather Alfred Mendes, who in 1917 was a Lance ...

After two outings in the James Bond universe, director Sam Mendes decided to make a film that would pay homage to his grandfather’s experiences as a soldier during the First World War. That movie is ...

The film follows two young men, Lance Corporal William Schofield (George MacKay) and Lance Corporal Tom Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman), soldiers on the Western Front who receive a near-impossible task: ...

There are plenty of gorgeous movies up for the Best Picture nomination for the 2020 Academy Awards, but few are as technically astounding as 1917. The film follows young World War I soldiers, Lance ...

As a feat of filmmaking, 1917 is a monumental achievement. The way it creates the illusion of a ‘single take’ gives us a new way of understanding the horrors of war and a level of shared-experience ...

Two thousand nineteen was the Year of Ambition at the movies. In “The Irishman,” Martin Scorsese told the story of a mob fixer that spanned five decades using just one actor per role — and lasted 3½ ...

As Russia approaches the centennial of the uprising, it has struggled to come to terms with the legacy of those who remade the nation MOSCOW — They played key roles in Russia’s 1917 Bolshevik ...

"1917," the Oscar favorite for sound editing and mixing, utilized new techniques and equipment to achieve an innovative soundscape. In planning the sound design for “1917,” supervising sound editor ...

There’s a feeling I always get at the end of a long Oscar night when the movie that won isn’t a terrible choice, but it’s the safe, blah, MORE predictable choice, the one that conforms to the dullest ...

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