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Libeled Lady
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 25, 2010
Here is the story of a newspaper trying to get out of libel suits and creating a love…rectangle? Warren Haggerty (Spencer Tracy) is an important newspaper man and has called his wedding off once again because of a printed emergency. His paper just ran a story about Connie Allenburry (Myrna Loy) read more
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 24, 2010
Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper) is a small town man who writes postcard poetry and plays the tuba. When his distant uncle dies and leaves him twenty million dollars, he heads to New York. Assuming that he’s an ignorant sap, lawyers and business men instantly flock around him to swindle him out read more
Dangerous Liaisons
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 23, 2010
Imagine France around the 1760’s. Everything is so elaborate with a thousand ruffles, powdered wigs and no one can get a breath of fresh air with their girdles so tight. Sounds stale and boring as their afternoon conversations, right? Well, it’s surprisingly anything but once the games of read more
Rain Man
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 22, 2010
Remember that transcontinental flight from my first review? Well, there was time enough to show Rain Man as well, only without the F-word, call and respond sex scene or gloomy airport statistics. Tom Cruise plays Charlie, a selfish, fast talking business man with a short temper. After his father read more
The Accidental Tourist
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 21, 2010
Sometimes when you’re grieving, you just need a little vacation. A change in scenery, whether you really want it or accidentally land in it. Hell, you might just decide to stay. Macon (William Hurt) and his wife Sarah (Kathleen Turner) tragically lost their twelve year old son, Ethan, a year ago read more
Mississippi Burning
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 20, 2010
According to my massive spreadsheet that helps me keep track of what films I’ve watched from what year and when to post them, 1988 was supposed to be a few weeks ago. It seems that in the month or so I had Mississippi Burning in my Netflix cue, their copy disappeared before I could view it. This read more
Working Girl
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 20, 2010
What’s a girl to do when she’s got her degree but can’t climb the corporate to a real job? Pretend to be the boss while she’s on the mend. Tess (Melanie Griffith) just turned thirty, is trying to get ahead in New York’s corporate jungle but never taken seriously. For example, her old boss read more
Casablanca (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 19, 2010
“Play it Sam. Play As Time Goes By.” Starring the immortals Humphery Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, here is the timeless classic and one of the greatest films ever made. It’s a tale of romance, war, heartbreak and sacrifice. In the early part of WWII, there was a path taken to flee Europe read more
The Human Comedy (Missing)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 18, 2010
This will only be out of my grasp for a few more weeks. Thankfully, it will be on TCM May 5th…at five o’clock in the morning. Ugggh, I apologize in advance if I’m a little annoyed with The Human Comedy. Not much is funny at five a.m. read more
Eww, these are old!
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 18, 2010
What is the oldest movie you absolutely love? I asked this question to my little sister one day. She’s a twenty year old sophomore in college right now, with Pirates of the Caribbean, Mean Girls and The Fox and the Hound dominating her DVD shelf. I’m not putting those movies down at all, I even read more
Heaven Can Wait (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 17, 2010
After Henry (Don Ameche) dies, he heads straight to Hell’s lobby to tell Satan the story of his life in order to gain entrance to the underworld. You see, Henry is convinced that with all his womanizing over the years he’d never be admitted into heaven. What unfolds is the life of a wealthy read more
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 16, 2010
“No man is an island, entire of itself… any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” – John Donne These immortal words begin the film as a bell rings, setting a solemn ton read more
The More the Merrier
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 16, 2010
With the over-crowding in Washington D.C., Connie (Jean Arthur) decides to rent out one of her spare rooms in her apartment. Benjamin Dingle (Charles Coburn), a well to-do millionaire can’t find a room anywhere, so he pushes to the front of the line for Connie’s apartment and convinces her to read more
Watch on the Rhine
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 15, 2010
Kurt Muller (Paul Lukas) is a leader of an underground movement, but recently things have gotten so bad for him that he and his family decide to flee to America. Kurt’s mother-in-law, Fanny Farrelly (Lucile Watson), lives there with her other children. She prepares excitedly for her family to read more
Madame Curie
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 14, 2010
Here is a brainy drama, depicting the life and work of Marie Curie. We first meet Marie (Greer Garson) as a student studying physics at the University of Paris. In a lecture hall full of male students, she faints in the middle of class. Seeing her potential and lack of friends, a professor helps read more
The Song of Bernadette
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 13, 2010
In 1858 a young French peasant girl claimed to have seen a beautiful woman and miracles started happening in the little village of Lourdes. Today, that young girl is a saint and this is her story. When we first meet Bernadette, she is always sick due to her asthma and one of the worst students in read more
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 13, 2010
This is the story of what happens to cowboys stuck in a little ghost town with no available women around to alleviate their testosterone levels. The setting is Nevada, 1885. Two men drift into a little western town, where lately cattle thieves have been a problem. One of the men, Carter (Henry Fon read more
In Which We Serve
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 12, 2010
“This is the story of a ship.” It’s also about the men who served her and their wives who know they come second to her. Real life survivor of the H.M.S Torrin, Noel Coward directs with David Lean in Lean’s first and Coward’s only film. After the H.M.S Torrin, a British destroyer, is sunk read more
Little Miss Sunshine
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 11, 2010
This is my “newest favorite movie.” By that, I mean than no movie in the past three (going on four) years has been as great as this. As I explained to my husband earlier, Raiders of the Lost Ark is still my all time favorite, but if I were to meet a physical embodiment of the film, I would high-f read more
The Departed (2)
The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on Apr 10, 2010
Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson star in this tale of two men undercover. The first we meet Colin Sullivan (Damon) who’s been a criminal learning under the wing of Frank Costello (Nicholson), leader of the Irish mob, since he was a boy. He’s now working in the Massachusetts State read more