Oscars: Why 'Black Panther' deserves to win best picture
by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Feb 18, 2019
3 minutes
In 1958, Alfred Hitchcock did something audacious.
Working in the Hollywood studio system, he made a movie as intensely personal as anything contemporary audiences would expect from the Sundance Film Festival. He used two of the biggest stars of the day and put them into a story where what mattered to him was front and center.
The film was "Vertigo," starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. It was not well received, and a long time passed before it was taken seriously.
But in 2012, when the respected British film journal Sight & Sound released its
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