Oscar Film Club
After 25 years in the film industry I finally decided that I finally put my own self through a film history study. I have so much appreciation for films and how they’re made. I wanted to start from the beginning. My actress friend Rachel and I— out of this need for education— decided that it’d be fun to start an Oscar film club and we would start with the first Oscar Best Picture winners and work all the way through to modern times. We started out meeting once a month to discuss one film a month. Our first film was Wings (1927). After realizing it would take us 8 years to only watch one film a month, we decided to watch 4 films a month, which has caught us up and we’ve watched 8 movies, and we’re about to watch Gone With the Wind (1939).
I definitely have my favorites that I've watched, and I can’t believe the ingenuity and beauty that was created in the first 10 years of filmmaking. They made such leaps and bounds in those first ten years in terms of sound design and visual shots. Some of my favorite are The Grand Hotel (1932), It Happened One Night (1934), and Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).
If you want to join us on this journey of education, you’re welcome to watch the films with us, and we meet the first Saturday of every month at 12 noon CST to discuss the films we watched. Learn more here on joining our Oscar Film Club on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/channel/AbY6fnRvMaQJCE6w/?igsh=MXVlcW9qd2cybnlqcg==