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Thus Far: Celebrating #82
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on May 13, 2010
Earlier today I posted my 82nd review, a fine number to celebrate. You see, if I had decided only to review the Best Picture winners (like similar blogs with similar names), I’d be finished and celebrating by tossing the DVD player out the window. Ah, but I’m not even a quarter of read more
The Snake Pit
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on May 12, 2010
From the opening credits with loud daunting music, you realize this is going to be a heavy film. Those set within a mental institution aren’t usually light or breezy. We meet Virginia Cunningham (Olivia de Havilland) not long after she has been checked into the institute. She’s usually confused read more
Johnny Belinda
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on May 11, 2010
The story of a deaf woman being raped sounds like a bad Helen Keller joke. Now that we’ve cleared that air, let’s not go there. Johnny Belinda takes place in a peaceful fishing town in Nova Scocia. It’s your typical small town, where everyone knows everyone and newcomers, like Dr. Robert Richardso read more
Il postino (The Postman)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on May 10, 2010
On this small Italian island, not much happens. Most people are illiterate and become fishermen. Mario (Massimo Troisi) is a sort of dreamer, wanting more, but not realizing what. He finds a job as a postman, the island always had a post office, but never seemed to need a carrier before. His read more
Apollo 13
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on May 9, 2010
On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 launched with the mission of landing on the moon. The three men onboard Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred W. Haise, had trained their whole careers for this. Everything was running according to plan when an oxygen tank ruptured. Not knowing the full extent of the dama read more
Babe (1)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on May 8, 2010
“This is a tale about an unprejudiced heart, and how it changed our valley forever…” Not many kids’ movies make it to the Best Picture category, but those that do are a real treat. Around the early-mid ‘90s was this rush of talking animal movies to appeal to kids and keep their parents slightly read more
Sense and Sensibility
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on May 7, 2010
Four years ago, I took a class entitled Gender and Literature where Sense and Sensibility was on the reading list. Looking back, I really wish I had just found this film and watched it, rather than show up to class pretending like I had tried to read the book (sorry Prof. Friedman). For the slow read more
Braveheart (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on May 6, 2010
In the late thirteenth century, William Wallace of Scotland led an army of rebels against the king of England who wanted to rule over Scotland as well. There is very little history written about Wallace, so most of the story came from myth and legend. There are many things that classify this film read more
Moulin Rouge! (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on May 5, 2010
I’m not just excited. This movie is titled with an exclamation point, and with good reason. Moulin Rouge! is punctuated in fantastic intensity. With rich in color, music, dance and eccentric characters this remake of the 1952 film intensifies and brings new life into the classic story set in read more
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on May 4, 2010
One boring December day at Ft. Myers Beach, my dad looked in the morning paper for a movie to take us kids to. “How about this Lord-of-the-Rings thing?” he said in a tone showing he had no idea what it was about, but with all the little advertisements making it look good, why not? So we ran read more
A Beautiful Mind (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on May 3, 2010
The story of real life Nobel Prize winner, John Nash could have been either very boring or distasteful. Only Ron Howard can make a world of numbers and complex calculations feel like magic. And only Russell Crowe can turn a socially inept human calculator into an endearing sweet character. Any read more
Gosford Park (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on May 2, 2010
A quick skim at the summery and one concludes that this film is a classic murder mystery. All the rich people are invited to the McCordle’s house for a weekend of shooting and acting rich with their servants waiting hand and foot on them. Then boom! Mr. McCordleis dead. And whodunit? Wait…that’s read more
In the Bedroom
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on May 1, 2010
A college boy is home with his parents for the summer and starts dating an older woman with two children. It’s not official yet, but she plans to divorce her husband, whose family owns a large local business. He becomes jealous, angry and violent. The boy’s aging parents try to warn their read more
The Great Zeigfeld
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 30, 2010
Step right up ladies and gentlemen and see The Great Zeigfeld, the story of the life and work of the extravagant stage producer, Florenz Ziegfeld (William Powell). Witness as he rises from a carnie at the world’s fair, peddling Sandow the strong man, to producing some of the biggest hits on Broadwa read more
San Francisco (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 30, 2010
Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Jeanette MacDonald star in this film immortalizing one of the greatest cities on the west coast. The film opens on New Years, 1906, being celebrated in the streets. It’s joyful chaos with everyone dancing and singing together and streamers falling like snow, but read more
Anthony Adverse and The Story of Louis Pasteur (Double Missing)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 29, 2010
Sadly, there are two films in 1936 that are nowhere to be found. As always, I’ll keep a sharp eye out for these wayward pieces of cinematic history and any advice on where to find them would be much appreciated. read more
A Tale of Two Cities
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 29, 2010
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” These immortal words from Charles Dickens open the adaptation of his great novel, A Tale of Two Cities. It’s a tale of rebellion, futile love and sacrifice that the film honors well. The story opens as the French Revolution looms overhead read more
Dodsworth (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 28, 2010
Sam Dodsworth (Walter Huston) has just retired from his automobile business and plans on traveling Europe with his wife, Fran (Ruth Chatterton). From the start, it seems they have different ideas on how to spend retirement. Sam wants to see and do everything; he gets so excited over all of England read more
Romeo and Juliet (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 27, 2010
I knew I had seen this one before! Many high school freshmen read Romeo and Juliet (though few appreciate it) and my teacher decided to show us this film in class. I was lucky enough to be in the far corner of the room where I slept through most of the film and joined in with the kids around me read more
Three Smart Girls
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 26, 2010
What a lovely little comedy! Three sisters, Joan, Kay and Penny, live in Switzerland with their mother, who’s been divorced from their father for ten years. When they hear that their father may be getting remarried, the girls run off to New York in an attempt to stop the marriage and reunite read more