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Ellsworth Hoagland has 0 titles cut in the Nutevio catalogue.
The recognisable elements are visual style, rewatchability, originality. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same eye, re-tuned for different registers. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is staged.
Hoagland set terms other filmmakers now work against: the structures, the pacing and the refusal to explain. Awards bodies have often been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
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Bob Hope
Actor
3 shared titles · Road to Rio

Norman Z. McLeod
Director
3 shared titles · Road to Rio

Charles Lang
Director of Photography
3 shared titles · The Shepherd of the Hills

Bing Crosby
Actor
2 shared titles · Road to Rio

Joseph Vitale
Actor
2 shared titles · Road to Rio

Gary Cooper
Actor
2 shared titles · Alice in Wonderland

Henry Hathaway
Director
2 shared titles · The Shepherd of the Hills

Grover Jones
Screenplay
2 shared titles · The Shepherd of the Hills
Henry Sharp
Director of Photography
2 shared titles · Alice in Wonderland
Ernst Toch
Original Music Composer
2 shared titles · Dr. Cyclops

Irving Berlin
Original Music Composer
2 shared titles · Holiday Inn

Mark Sandrich
Director
2 shared titles · Holiday Inn
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