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Wings (Krylya) Directed by Larisa Shepiitko Written by Valentin Ezhov and Natalya Ryazantseva 1966/USSR Mosfilm First viewing/Netflix rental   Touching story of post-War readjustment from a director who died way too young. Nadezhda Petruchina is a schoolteacher at a provincial school.  She was read more

A Shooting Star: Wings (1927) Part 2 Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Clara Bow, & Richard Arlen This post was written after watching the second half of Wings (1927). Okay. That's it. I'm officially a die-hard Wings fan. If you read my previous post about the first half of Wings, you'll kno read more

A Shooting Star: Wings (1927) Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Clara Bow, & Richard Arlen in all their depressed glory Call me a silent movie convert if you will, because I have totally fallen in love with the genre ever since watching Flesh and The Devil late last year. Prior to this, I had ne read more

And more CLASSIC MOVIE MAGNET MADNESS today! Day 12 of the 39-day contest promotion continues… Classic Movie Hub will be giving away one Classic Movie Magnet a day, every day from now until January 10, courtesy of rickroden.com! So – there will be at least ONE CHANCE to win one magnet EVERY DAY read more

Wings (1927)      What makes a movie worthy of the first ever Academy Award for Best Picture? What constituted greatness in 1929? Apparently a couple million dollars and more effort than perhaps has ever been put into the production of a film.      Wings would not have been possible had so many read more

Wings (1927), Silent film about World War I fighter pilots, directed by William A. It was the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and the only silent film ever to win Best Picture. Cast: Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Richard Arlen. Gary Cooper appears in a scene which hel read more

Beginning the long tradition of excellence in film, this high flying story of friendship, love and war Wings was the very first winner of the Best Picture Oscar.  Directed by William A. Wellman, Wings is about two young men, middle class Jack (Charles Rogers) and rich boy David (Richard Arlen).  Jac read more

It is amazing to me to realise that this haunting and dazzling silent epic was so nearly lost forever, despite being winner of the first Oscar for best film. It had been thought that no copies of William Wellman’s early masterpiece still existed, until a print was discovered in the  Cinémathèque read more