Introducing the Smackdown Panel for '37
Monday, September 27, 2021 at 7:39PM On Sunday the next Supporting Actress Smackdown and its companion podcast arrive, with a discussion of the 1937 Oscars and the Supporting Actress nominees. You know what that means. For maximum enjoyment (re)watch Best Picture nominees the Bogart noir Dead End, the actress-stuffed dramedy Stage Door and the epic In Old Chicago as well as two films that were both nominated for two acting Oscars, the thriller Night Must Fall and weepie classic Stella Dallas (all of which are readily available online) and send in your votes by Friday October 1st. Let's meet your fellow panelists, shall we?
CHELSEA EICHHOLZ
Chels Eichholz is a filmmaker, academic, and podcast producer. When she's not editing, you can find her relaxing with Audrey Hepburn and Agnes Varda films. You can listen to her on The Untitled Cinema Gals Project, The Community Rewatch Podcast, and Those Gals Have Moxie. [Twitter | Letterboxd]
PAMELA HUTCHINSON
Pamela Hutchinson is a freelance critic, writer and film historian based on the south coast of England. She writes for places including Sight & Sound, Criterion, Indicator, the Guardian and Empire and regularly appears on BBC radio. She has written essays for several edited collections and is the author of the BFI Film Classic on Pandora's Box and the editor of 30-Second Cinema (Ivy Press). Her passion is silent cinema, which she indulges mostly at SilentLondon.co.uk [Twitter | Personal Site]
AND WELCOME BACK...
TIM ROBEY
Tim Robey has written on film, and occasionally books, for the Daily Telegraph since 2000. He is co-editor of The DVD Stack (Canongate), a guide to the best versions of movies available globally, and turns up on Radio 4's Front Row and Monocle FM Radio. His favourite film of all time is The Thin Red Line, which should have won all seven of its Oscar nominations (plus several more). [Twitter | Tim at The Telegraph]
BOYD VAN HOEIJ
Boyd van Hoeij is a freelance film writer based in Luxembourg and Paris. He has been a trade critic for both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter and is now the Senior Critic at The Film Verdict. Boyd also regularly contributes to De Filmkrant (Netherlands); is the president of the Selection Committee of the Luxembourg Film Fund and Luxembourg City Film Festival's curator at large. He has moderated masterclasses with the likes of Tarantino and Todd Haynes, been part of festival juries in Cannes, Venice, Hong Kong, Jerusalem, Sydney, Palm Springs and Mar del Plata. He's also taught film criticism and dissected film classics scene by scene in both Europe and North America. [Twitter | Reviews]
HOSTED BY...
NATHANIEL ROGERS
Nathaniel is the creator and owner of The Film Experience. He is a member of Gurus of Gold, Critics Choice Awards, and the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics and a longtime Oscar pundit here at TFE. His writing has also appeared at other publications including Vanity Fair, Vulture, Slate, Towleroad, and Tribeca Film.
If you are a working actor, a renowned critic, film historian, a novelist, a comedian, or an arts professional of some kind, chances are good that he has meant to invite you to a Smackdown panel, or would have if he happened to know you were also an actressexual. [Twitter | Contact | Instagram]
Introducing, Smackdown
Reader Comments (4)
Awesome panel. Looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts
The thing I love about the Smackdown is that not only do I get to read such varied opinions on the performances/films, but I’m often being introduced to voices I wasn’t previously aware of. I always listen, whether I’ve seen the films or not, and I can’t wait to hear everyone’s thoughts. Stage Door has shot to the top of my must-see list thanks to the cast alone!
I like the comment from George S Kaufman, co-author of the original play of Stage Door. Because the studio changed practically everything about it, he said they should have called it "Screen Door".
Excited to hear the panels' thoughts!