Now it's time for how my viewings in 2023 affected my nominations and runner-ups. No new winners, however: Nominees 1938 Actress 4. Margaret Lockwood, The Lady Vanishes* 1952 Supporting Actress 4. Edith Evans, The Importance of Being Earnest 1969 Supporting Actor 3. Helmut Griem, The Damned* Support...

Last week I saw six movies. Let's start with the three movies that weren't from last year. King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis consists of three hours of television footage about Martin Luther King's career, with ten interruptions by various celebrities that help supplement his message. If...

TCM has added 3 films to the schedule on January 27 as part of a theme honoring Holocaust Remembrance Day. These documentary films are all TCM premieres: - Shoah (1985) - Filmmakers for the Prosecution (2021) - Nuremberg (1948) Additional details are provided at my schedule information page: http:/...

The Sorrow and the Pity

next: Eastern European railroads

And here's the Austin critics: Picture Killers of the Flower Moon Oppenheimer Poor Things Past Lives The Holdovers Godzilla Minus One The Iron Claw Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Barbie American Fiction Director Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer Greta Gerwig – Barbie Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Thing...

Again, if my choices had to include two of the Academy's choices, it wouldn't make much difference. Only Best Supporting Actress needs an addition. Fonda is my choice, though I haven't seen Hackett or McGovern, or remember what Dillon does. This does not change the results.

Now it's 1981. Here are the Academy's choices: ACTOR Warren Beatty – Reds Henry Fonda – On Golden Pond Burt Lancaster – Atlantic City Dudley Moore – Arthur Paul Newman – Absence of Malice ACTRESS Katharine Hepburn – On Golden Pond Diane Keaton – Reds Marsha Mason – Only When I Laugh Susan Sarandon –...

Last week I saw four movies. The best thing about History if Made at Night is Charles Boyer and his remarkably charming performance. One way wonder whether Jean Arthur is the right woman to complement it, and the movie's distinct (and in the end, highly convenient) changes of tone also make wonder j...

Actually they've updated the premieres. Now they've got The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gosford Park, Adaptation, The Triplets of Belleville, Winged Migration, Far from Heaven, Indochine, Sundays and Cybele, Midnight in Paris

Here are the black and white nominees for 1954: On the Waterfront The Country Girl Executive Suite Rogue Cop Sabrina And here are the color nominees: Three Coins in the Fountain The Egyptian Rear Window Seven Brides for Seven Brothers The Silver Chalice I have not seen Rogue Cop or The Egyptian . In...

The Screen Actors Guild has announced their nominations: Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Bradley Cooper – Maestro as Leonard Bernstein Colman Domingo – Rustin as Bayard Rustin Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers as Paul Hunham Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer as J. Robert Oppenheimer...

KayFrancis wrote: ↑January 11th, 2024, 6:18 am The Umbrellas of Cherbourg ?

Correct. I didn't even get a chance to use my second clue, about Futurama using its most famous song to devastating effect. Your turn.

The old woman has a line in the film which she repeats over and over throughout the film. The line (which is from the book that the movie is based on) is arguably one of the most famous lines from any British popular novel of the 20th century. That "arguably" does a lot of work in that se...

Cold Comfort Farm?

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes?