Before we get to our first movie, I just wanted to say something about a change to our voting system this year. Normally, our voters nominate their favorite eligible movies, then everyone simply picks from the nominees. But this year, in the interest of diversity, I decided to split up the ballot by region - the US, Western Europe, and the rest of the world. It was my hope that this might help us honor movies that weren't American, British or French, which are by far the most-represented nationalities in the Hall of Fame. Did it work? Stay tuned!
As always, we'll start with this year's 50th Anniversary Muriel Award winner, then announce the other inductees two per day until we've unveiled them all. So keep an eye on this page for the next week or so.
But enough of my yakkin' - let's boogie!
“How many hundreds of times have we heard Morricone's iconic coyote-howl theme used to signify ‘this is a western’? It's ironic that Leone's deconstruction of the genre has become one of its benchmarks, its imagery and sounds as famous as anything it was meant to satirize. But then again, it makes perfect sense." ~ Vern
No comments:
Post a Comment