Although I probably like Her better overall, 12 Years a Slave is an excellent choice for Best Picture. It's also worth noting that it the first major Hollywood production to deal with slavery in a serious way came out in 2013. And no, Amistad was...
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Night and Fog has a claim as the best documentary of all time.
There are a lot of bad Best Picture winners. And I really dislike Slumdog Millionaire, although the other Best Picture nominees that year are no great shakes. I'd like to.
Harold Ramis has passed. My favorite scene from his greatest film. Incidentally, I visited Punxsutawney in August. It is not a nice place.
I've put up another set of short reviews on my tenth-rate film blog. Read if you care. In short: Leave Her to Heaven (Stahl, 1945)--I know people love this film,.
I know we are reentering the New Gilded Age, what with the economic inequality and union busting and facial hair. But I'm not sure we need to go this far..
Another set of reviews from my mediocre film blog. Waste time discussing as you like. Films since the last update: Navy Blue Days, Pembroke and Rock, 1925--Stan Laurel running around a Latin American port looking for lovin'. Fooling Casper, Montgomery, 1928--Lame adaptation of a popular...
Some late Georges Méliès this week, from 1912
More short reviews on my pointless film blog. Reviewed since my last update: The Dallas Buyers Club, Vallee, 2013 (OK, but cliche on cliche) To the Wonder, Malick, 2012 (OMG.
In all the celebrations of Peter O'Toole upon his death, let us not forget the equally sad demise of the great Joan Fontaine. Farran Nehme with more.
Is there a pre-atomic era film about the world ending?
One of the great women of film noir has passed. She's perhaps best known for her work in Lady in the Lake, which is famous primarily for being shot entirely.