Metrograph

Set in Hollywood at the end of the silent era, Hazanavicius’s acclaimed comic melodrama, depicting the relationship between a fading matinee idol of the silents (Jean Dujardin) and a rising ingénue (Bérénice Bejo) become the first fully black-and-white film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture since Billy Wilder’s The Apartment in 1960. “Not a work of film history but rather a generous, touching, and slightly daffy expression of unbridled movie love.”—The New York Times