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An American in Paris
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 28, 2010
Riddle me this: What does an American do in Paris? He ruins it for everyone else. I’ve witnessed it in my travels as well as in this film. Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) is an ex GI who decided to stay in Paris and live out his dream by becoming a painter. He has an obvious love for the city. read more
Decision Before Dawn
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 27, 2010
Just six years after WWII, Decision Before Dawn brings a somewhat sympathetic look at Nazi Germany. Director Anatole Litvak, who’s work we’ve seen earlier in The Snake Pit, seems more than capable of a war film after directing several war documentaries in the forties. He filmed in Germany, using read more
Atonement
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 25, 2010
Atonement is another word for penance. There are wrongs that need to be paid for, but while they’re still in debt, hanging over your head all you can do is dread when the judgment falls. You think all the “If only”s and wish you could take back that one gesture, or word that caused the gavel read more
Film of the Future: Billi and Theodore
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 25, 2010
On here, we spend so much time watching and talking about films of long years past that we sometimes forget to look ahead. A new film will never come to be without a lot of hard work, dedication and funding. We look to the future today at budding film maker Ronald Short. He’s an old friend of read more
No Country for Old Men
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 24, 2010
Within the first ten minutes of the film, we see the tone it will keep: barren of hope, calmly violent, and intriguing. The Texas desert landscape and few and far between characters make the film feel lonely and isolated, like it was raised this way to become a quiet and unsettling person. You’re read more
Michael Clayton
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 22, 2010
Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is a fixer. He’s the lawyer you call when everything has gone to shit. He’s the guy you buy. Some call him a miracle worker and get pissed if he’s anything less. But it’s going to take a man gone crazy off his pills to get Clayton to realize that those read more
There Will Be Blood (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 21, 2010
Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day Lewis) is an ambitious oil man. He’s spent his adult life out in the desert risking his life to dig mines and pump oil from the ground. With his young son and partner, H.W. (Dillon Freasier) he gets a tip from young man Paul Sunday (Paul Dano) about a place called read more
Good News! (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 21, 2010
Hey blog-buddies, just wanted to share some good news real quick. Today I’m a featured blogger on MovieFanFare.com! Hooray and confetti! So check it out and tell all your film friends. Today MovieFanFare, tomorrow the world! http://www.moviefanfare.com/fanfare-guests/a-star-is-born-1937/ read more
Juno
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 20, 2010
I came home from college one weekend to take my sister and brother to see Juno. They were seventeen and thirteen at the time, right in the audience demographic. When we got home, dad asked us about the movie. They casually told him it was about a sixteen year old girl who gets pregnant. I got read more
1934′s Missing Pieces
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 19, 2010
I’ve got some unhappy news about 1934. It seems that many of the films nominated that year are very hard to find. The Barretts of Wimpole, Flirtation Walk, Here Comes the Navy, One Night of Love and The White Parade are all out of my grasp for the moment. As for Viva Villa, that should be airing read more
The Gay Divorcee (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 19, 2010
At first glance, I expected this film to just be an excuse for excessive song and dance numbers. It is, but that’s not the point. The point is, I was surprised to find the whole thing very delightful. First, we meet Guy Holden (Fred Astaire), an American dancer with the capability to burst into read more
It Happened One Night (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 18, 2010
Ah yes, the classic that first shaped a romantic comedy. Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) has just married against her father’s will, so he takes his daughter back to his yacht, only for her to jump ship and try to return to her husband. Peter Warne (Clark Gable) is an out of work newspaper read more
The House of Rothschild
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 17, 2010
Our story begins in Prussia, in the late 1700s, where Jews are confined to a ghetto and taxed heavily. Living there is a banker with wife and five sons, the Rothschild family. We see the oppression they’re under, having to hide their good things to look more poor than they are, just so the tax read more
Imitation of Life (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 16, 2010
Bea Pullman (Claudette Colbert) has been taking care of her husband’s maple syrup business since he died, but being a single mother is already enough of a job. One day, while trying to get her three year old daughter ready for day care, Bea gets a knock on her door. A large African-American woman read more
Terrified, Doomed Eyes
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 15, 2010
Oh my, things have been a little slow. By a little, I mean unacceptable. Most of my readers will cut me some slack, they understand. They’re mostly family and friends. They also keep me going. The occasional comment on a post, telling me they like my blog and general encouragement goes read more
The Thin Man (3)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 13, 2010
Mystery, murder, laughs and love. The Thin Man has it all and a dog to top it off. When inventor Mr. Wynant hears the good news that his daughter, Dorothy (Maureen O’Sullivan) is getting married, he goes to fetch the savings bonds he’s been saving for her, only to find them missing. After read more
Cleopatra (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 12, 2010
Cecil B. DeMille directing Cleopatra. First off, if you’ve seen the 1963 version of this film, you don’t need to see this one. If you’ve seen this one, you shouldn’t waste six hours of your life on ‘63’s. The main differences are color, actors and length. With an elementary understanding read more
Home Movies
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 10, 2010
A few months ago, my husband and I finally got around to converting some old VHS tapes to digital files. We “borrowed” a VCR from my parents and a few home movies, thinking it might be fun to have some old movies as DVDs. What few found was pure gold. Sitting in a box for nearly twenty years read more
American Graffiti
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 8, 2010
My parents have always been fans of classic cars, drive-in movies and restaurants where they’ll deliver a rootbeer float on roller-skates to your car. But they were teenagers of the seventies, those were already long gone for them. This movie feels like a time machine. The neon lights, beau read more
A Touch of Class
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 7, 2010
It is always exciting to find a romantic comedy that doesn’t suck. A Touch of Class is exactly what the title suggests, classy, but just a touch so we can still be comfortable. Here’s the story, Steve (George Segal) is a businessman and Vicki (Glenda Jackson) is a fashion designer, the read more