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The Sound of Music
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Mar 11, 2011
Being the smart-ass kid I was, I never took The Sound of Music seriously. Something about that beginning image of twirling on an Austrian hilltop immediately turned me away. Yet I had a deep love for Mary Poppins. Now that I have finally seen The Sound of Music entirely as an adult, my old cynica read more
Doctor Zhivago
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Mar 10, 2011
Based on Boris Pasternak’s novel, Doctor Zhivago is the story of a doctor/poet during the Russian Revolution. In the present, we have Zhivago’s half brother, General Yefgraf (Alec Guinness), questioning a young girl, whom he thinks is Zhivago’s child. With a collection of Zhivago’s poems read more
Ship of Fools
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Mar 9, 2011
It’s true, the world is quite the bowl of mixed nuts. Some of the most interesting interactions you will ever see are of complete strangers from all walks of life crammed into one place. As the title suggests, this ship, sailing the Atlantic in 1933, is full of all kinds of fools and their time read more
Darling
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Mar 8, 2011
What luck that I’d have a film like Darling to talk about on International Women’s Day. Directed by John Schlesinger and starring Julie Christie as Diana, Darling is the story of a selfish young woman who uses her beauty and promiscuity to climb higher in her modeling career and society in the read more
Smilin’ Through
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Mar 7, 2011
Three and a half hours after the Academy Awards ceremony had ended, I was catching Smilin’ Through on TCM. I’m not much of a night owl, by ten my eyes are usually drooping. Being up in the middle of the night to watch a predictable 1930’s melodrama did not make me a happy camper, but I’m read more
Cavalcade
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Mar 7, 2011
A cavalcade is a procession, or parade of sorts. In the film, the transitions between chapters show that literally, with images of trail of people on horseback in medieval period clothes. They seem to just be the past looking on and ushering history. The real cavalcade is all about time marching read more
The Citadel (1)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Mar 6, 2011
Don’t we all have big dreams of changing the world for the better at some point? Some want to be scientists discovering new species or form of energy, others want to write the next great novel and inspire generations to come. For Andrew Manson, the dream was to be a good doctor. In The Citadel, read more
Test Pilot (Found!)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Mar 5, 2011
Test Pilot is a story where men put their lives at risk for the sake of aviation and women find that irresistible. Clark Gable plays Jim, the cocky hotshot test pilot who tries to moonlight as a lady’s man. Spencer Tracy is his right hand mechanic, Gunner, who spends most of his time keeping Jim read more
Four Daughters (Found!)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Mar 5, 2011
Music professor Adam Lemp (Claude Rains) has four lovely, musically inclined daughters. They all live happily at home and form a band. There is Thea (Lola Lane) at the piano, Emma (Gale Page) at the harp, Ann (Priscilla Lane) playing the violin and Kay (Rosemary Lane) sings. As suitors start show read more
The Godfather Part II (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Mar 4, 2011
If you have any love for Francis Ford Coppola’s original Godfather, than that love only gets expanded in his The Godfather Part II. For me, my first full viewing of The Godfather just teetered on really good, it almost fell under great. After finally seeing Part II in one sitting, it pushes read more
Chinatown (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Mar 3, 2011
The role of a private investigator is to snoop. To get down into the muck and find out the dirty truth. That’s exactly what JJ ‘Jake’ Gittes (Jack Nicholson) does in Roman Polanski’s Chinatown. It is 1937 in Los Angeles and Jake is a private detective specializing in cases of adultery. read more
The Conversation
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Mar 2, 2011
My first encounter with Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation was about four years ago in my first film class. The professor chose this film to study sound and how it relates to image, and yesterday I found my old term paper breaking down a few scenes into the most minuscule details. It hurt read more
Lenny
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 28, 2011
If you go to see most stand up comedians today, you’re likely to hear a few F-words or racy jokes. Back in the sixties, Lenny Bruce was fighting to use those words and jokes in his act. He wasn’t just trying to use his foul mouth simply for a shock factor. His jokes, and the fact that he was read more
The Towering Inferno (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 26, 2011
When we hear such a dramatic name like The Towering Inferno we can instinctively do two things in the year 2011: jokingly scream Oh the humanity! and grab a strong drink. That is not a bad way to approach this film, but that is also stereotyping. Sure it’s one of those 1970’s disaster films, read more
Oscar Predictions (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 26, 2011
We are now entering the final hours of Oscar season and I haven’t made an official post spelling out my predictions for tomorrow that we come to expect from every film blogger across the world. Oh me, oh my! I’ve been writing about the Oscars all year. I eat, sleep, breathe and roll around read more
True Grit
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 24, 2011
When Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) loses her father to a senseless gunfight, she steps up to take care of the arrangements for his body and to take vengeance on his murderer, Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin). This girl is only fourteen, but with her father gone, she assumes the role as man of the house, read more
Black Swan
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 24, 2011
Back in January, I was that twenty-something woman seeing Black Swan alone. I never carry a purse, that day I had on a superhero t-shirt and my grey converse shoes. The eight other people in the theater, all women, may have made some assumptions, especially if they knew some of the gory details read more
The Last Emperor
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 23, 2011
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, The Last Emperor is an epic biopic about Pu Yi, a boy crowned Emperor of China at the age of two in 1908. Through the use of the film flashing backwards and forwards in time, we are shown his whole life and its events against China’s shifts in government and culture read more
Hope and Glory
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 22, 2011
At this point in the blog, I’ve seen so many WWII movies they all start to run together. Soldiers, sailors. American perspective, Japanese perspective. Normandy, Iwo Jima. Lovers torn apart, families reunited. Join the navy, war is hell. They’ve filmed it, I’ve seen it. But Hope read more
Broadcast News
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Feb 21, 2011
Today, our news shows can be comprised of stories that aren’t news at all, depending on the events of the day. Just look at the Today show. The local news usually gets the big stories out first. A crash on the highway, a building on fire, a robbery, then a segment about the local YouTube star read more