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Cries and Whispers
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 5, 2010
Alright, get ready for some subtitles unless you know Swedish. Cries and Whispers is one of those rare foreign films nominated in the Best Picture category. It tells the story about three sisters in the late 1800′s coming back together as one is dying. Agnes (Harriet Andersson) is dying of read more
The Exorcist (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 4, 2010
I love the story my mom tells about the first time she encountered The Exorcist. She went to see it at a drive-in with a few friends. My mom is not a scary movie person. Not at all. So she was terrified the entire time, cowering in the back seat, but around her, her friends were cracking jokes read more
The Sting
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 3, 2010
It was just an average 1936 day outside of Chicago for Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) and Luther Coleman when they pulled a con on someone. They didn’t realize the man they just got thousands of dollars from worked for Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw). Lonnegan is the notorious con man who has read more
Crash
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 2, 2010
Before I saw this film in its entirety, I had a few small encounters with it. Let’s call them crashes. The first was when this was in theaters, I was a lowly employee sweeping up popcorn that day when someone stopped me and asked me what “this Crash movie” was about. I hadn̵ read more
Good Night, and Good Luck
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jul 1, 2010
This is that odd little picture no one really heard of until it was nominated at the Academy Awards. Everyone asked, why’s it in black and white? What’s it about? Isn’t George Clooney in it? He directed it too? Since when could he direct? Of the five nominated films of 2005, read more
Capote
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 30, 2010
The film greets you with eerie Kansas fields. The colors are cold, faded and dead, a winter with no snow for enchantment. Everything is vacant, barren, and uninviting. The tone is set and doesn’t give us much to hope for. In this middle of nowhere Kansas town, a family of four is murdered. read more
Munich
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 29, 2010
At the 1972 Olympic Games at Munich, a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September murdered eleven Israeli athletes. Outraged, Prime Minister Golda Meir allows a mission lead by Avner (Eric Bana) to hunt down the terrorists responsible one by one and kill them. Avner has a war hero father read more
Brokeback Mountain
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 28, 2010
Around February 2006 my parents and I were just idly talking about movies and Brokeback Mountain casually entered the conversation, to which they immediately advised me, “You shouldn’t see that movie.” I had seen it just the week before, I told them. There was a moment where they read more
Forrest Gump
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 27, 2010
From the moment we see Forrest sitting on a bus bench with muddy Nikes, a half eaten box of chocolates and placing the feather at his feet between the pages of his Curious George book, we see he’s a unique person. Most could quickly write him off as “special” and tell their kids read more
Pulp Fiction
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 26, 2010
A word of caution to you squirmers: Pulp Fiction has a good amount of profane language, lewd subjects, drug use, violence and gore. If all that makes you a little uncomfortable, I understand, but Pulp Fiction is still one of the best films of the nineties, hands down. How do you describe a Quentin read more
The Shawshank Redemption (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 25, 2010
Adapted from the Stephen King novel, The Shawshank Redemption tells the story of life in prison for Andy Dufresne (Tim Robins) who was charged with double murder and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences. One for each victim. Andy is innocent, but that doesn’t make a bit of difference read more
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 24, 2010
Don’t invite me to your wedding, I’m just as sarcastic as Gareth but half as vocal. The ceremonies are dull and boring, no matter what your religion. If I’m expected to be in anything less comfortable than my Nikes, I’ll be barefoot before the first dance. I encourage groo read more
Quiz Show
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 23, 2010
In 1957, Sputnik was a threat, television was brand new and game shows were all the rage. The most popular game show is Twenty-one, a quiz show where contestants put in a soundproof booth, grilled with multi-part questions, with no multiple choice and no knowledge of their competitor’s score. read more
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 22, 2010
Cecil B. DeMille brings the circus to the movies in his second to last film ever. Working with Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, he created a drama centering around the big top, using actual circus performances within the film and making his actors learn their characters specific acts. T read more
High Noon
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 22, 2010
High Noon is described as “a western for people who don’t like westerns.” That’s pretty accurate considering I loved it. Minutes after Marshall Will Kane (Gary Cooper) gets married to Amy (Grace Kelly), a young Quaker, the town gets news that a gang of bandits are waiting at read more
The Quiet Man (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 21, 2010
The film stars John Wayne as ex-boxer Sean Thorton, who is returning from America to his home in Ireland. His little town is nestled into the quaint countryside where men drink porter like water, everyone goes to church and lovely Mary Kate tends to sheep, among other duties. At first, it’s read more
Moulin Rouge
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 20, 2010
Haven’t we come across this one before? Ah, Moulin Rouge from 2001 is a remake while this Moulin Rouge is the original. Directed by John Huston and pulled together by an independent studio, I got the feeling I would enjoy this. The story fictionalizes the life of Post-Impressionist painter read more
Ivanhoe
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 19, 2010
First, let’s talk about Robin Hood. He’s the guy in green tights that takes money from the rich, gives it to the poor, has some merry men in the woods, is all chivalrous, great archer, loves a fair maiden and has some beef with Prince John. Ivanhoe is just a few details away from being read more
Captains Courageous
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 18, 2010
How do you teach a spoiled brat some respect? Throw him aboard a fishing boat. That’s what happens to young Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew). When we first meet the boy, he’s spoiled rotten and believes that his father’s money can get him anything. He uses it as a threat read more
Dead End
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Jun 17, 2010
On a dead end block in New York, next to the river, a gang of boys gather and their antics are known all over the neighborhood. Overlooking their usual hangout is a new apartment complex full of rich people. The main entrance to their building is under construction, so all the residence must pass read more