One Battle After Another: Masterpiece, or Misfire?

About this episode

This episode discusses the film One Battle After Another, exploring its Oscar wins and classification challenges.

Winner of 6 Oscars (inc. Best Picture and Best Director), One Battle After Another is a sprawling epic, a challenging film, quite difficult to classify, but absolutely worth seeing.

People in this episode

Host: Jeremy Cohen

Topics covered

• film analysis
• Oscar winners
• epic films
• film classification
• cinematic challenges

Keywords

• Oscars
• Best Picture
• Best Director
• film critique
• epic cinema

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: One Battle After Another

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