Spellbound 1945

Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck in Spellbound (1945)

centred on a gripping tale of psychoanalysis, spellbound (1945) called in salvador dalí, to realise its most challenging scene: a 20 minute dream sequence.

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The American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been dishing out Oscars since the Coolidge administration, and unless you’re a film historian there’s a very good chance you’ve seen under twenty percent of the honorees in the acting categories alone. Granted, many of these performances are in old, black-and-white movies you’ve probably never heard of, and, when you have a night to yourself, you prefer to tick off items on your various viewing queues. But there is nothing better…

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Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck in Spellbound (1945)