In July, the spotlight falls on Satyajit Ray, and in September on Erich von Stroheim.

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It was very "Norma Desmond, " very "Sunset Boulevard, " everything but von Stroheim and the monkey.

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Of course, even before hating Stroheim was popular, audiences had been looking forward to booing the bad guys for millennia.

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The final nominees ranged from Erich von Stroheim's 1924 silent film Greed to the 2004 summer popcorn flick National Treasure.

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As this extravagant, wickedly ironic 1928 melodrama shows, Erich von Stroheim was not only a supreme (if typecast) actor but one of the greatest silent-era directors.

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Even major films occasionally dot the lineup like the deliciously sadistic "Gaslight" (1944), for which Ingrid Bergman won her first Oscar, or Erich von Stroheim's masterly silent version of "The Merry Widow" (1925), starring Mae Murray and John Gilbert.

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