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Boys Don’t Cry
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Aug 1, 2012
Sexual identity crisis is not an easy subject to tackle. It is much more complicated than men who want to be women and women who want to be men. There is a longing that stretches further than the physical body, and reaches for acceptance within the desired gender. To find that acceptance must read more
Rope
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 28, 2012
I first saw Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope late one night in my old college apartment. My roommate preferred to get to bed earlier, so I warned her about my movie and tried my best to be quiet. Within twenty minutes, my vocal excitement had kept her awake and curious enough to see what the hell I read more
Minority Report
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 25, 2012
Minority Report is centered around a system in the future that can prevent murders from happening. At first glance, that sounds pretty great and has worked so well that not a single murder has occurred in the last six years. As we are able to see deeper into the “precrime” unit, there are faults, read more
The Big Lebowski (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 22, 2012
Sometimes there’s a movie, a simple, lackluster movie, more about a man and an attitude, than a plot. Not everyone sees its greatness, in fact, it didn’t do very well at the box office and it received some pretty average reviews. But the fans have held it up, even made a convention celebrating read more
Rachel Getting Married
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 17, 2012
Often times, films about family tensions skirt around the main issue. Here, Kym (Anne Hathaway) is the issue, and she knows it all too well. She always feels the eyes upon her, judging and keeping a safe distance. It’s enough to drive anyone mad and the bravest, and worst thing she can do is read more
East of Eden (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 13, 2012
Based off the second half of John Steinbeck’s novel and directed by Elia Kazan, East of Eden is a retelling of Cain and Abel set around the beginning of World War I. The biblical references are easy to notice; Cal and Aron are sons of Adam, competing for their father’s love. What is surprising, read more
The Racket
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 11, 2012
Sunday night, Turner Classic Movies aired The Racket, one of the very last best picture nominees I have not been able to find. As the film was being introduced, it confirmed more of what I had heard. For decades the film had been lost, feared to have no surviving prints. After Howard Hughes, who pr read more
A Few Summer Movies
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 6, 2012
Summer is a special time of year where the theaters are flooded with big movies made to push the popcorn. Not many of them make it to Best Picture status, but you can usually find the all the special effects categories tapped out. Nonetheless, I love summer movies, and this summer, I have been spe read more
The Pixar Princess
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 28, 2012
I believe Merida has modified her dress so that she can move freely. Function trumps fashion. After the successful opening weekend of their latest film, Brave, Pixar Animation Studios can give themselves a big pat on the back. They have made the best movie about a princess, better than Disney ever read more
Children of Men
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 23, 2012
Children symbolize so much to humanity. Each is a clean slate, innocent and full of contagious joy. As adults, we strive to create a brighter future with them in mind. And for each parent, they are a precious gift, a piece of themselves that gets to live on. Imagining a world without children, read more
The Day I Met Roger Ebert
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 18, 2012
In the fall of 2010, I lived an hour away from Chicago and Roger Ebert was busy doing book signings sporadically around the city. The combination of events that eventually led to my husband and I driving on a tweet-whim up to a Barnes and Noble in Naperville still makes my head spin, so I’ll keep read more
WALL-E
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 16, 2012
How can I accurately describe how excited I was in the summer of 2008 to see WALL-E? The fact that I ducked out of a friend’s wedding early to catch a matinee of WALL-E with my siblings is an understatement. All I knew was that it was the latest Pixar film, directed by Andrew Stanton (so I knew read more
We Need to Talk About Kevin
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 13, 2012
We Need to Talk About Kevin follows a mother as she meekly tries to get on with her life after an incident. While we watch her struggle, she remembers raising her son, Kevin. Only from seeing previews, posters and vague descriptions of the film, I thought I had a clear idea what this incident was. read more
Aliens
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 7, 2012
Since I had already seen Alien, I decided to also watch Aliens before seeing Prometheus. Thing is, once you see Alien, you think you know what to expect. This time the title suggests there will be more than one alien, out to kill and use the poor humans as part of their nightmarish reproductive read more
The Searchers
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 3, 2012
John Ford’s The Searchers is the classic western. It has everything a western needs and more. It’s set in the old west, under a beautiful blue sky and amazing red rock formations in the distance. There are plenty of cowboys riding around, indians they can justify shooting, fights to get into, read more
King Kong
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on May 22, 2012
This is a film everyone has heard of, in one way or another, by mid childhood in film-fan healthy cases. With my dad having a love for classic monster movies, I had seen King Kong a few times before I was nine. Also, as many blessed upper-middle class kids of the nineties whose families believed read more
A History of Violence
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on May 18, 2012
Adapted from the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke, A History of Violence tells the story of a man in a small town family man who kills two men attempting to rob his diner. The story makes him a local hero and grabs national attention. Soon, mafia men from Philadelphia start appearing read more
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on May 14, 2012
The art of comedy spreads into a wide spectrum. At one end, you can find wholesome classics like Bringing Up Baby and Charlie Chaplin films. Down at the other end, you will find the crude, rude, and brashly satirical. While more modern comedies find themselves at this deep end, not many can keep read more
City Lights (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on May 8, 2012
In 1931, talkies had gone from the newest fad to mainstream. Silent films were quickly becoming too old fashioned. Nonetheless, Charlie Chaplin wrote, directed and starred in the silent City Lights. Surprisingly, it was one of Chaplin’s most successful films, financially and critically. read more
Director Talk: Quentin Tarantino
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on May 6, 2012
Fellow film bloggers Ian, Fogs and PG Cooper have been discussing different directors for a few months now in their Director Talk series. I’ve been a big fan since their first talk about James Cameron. Naturally, I was thrilled when they invited me to be a guest in their latest talk. The read more