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[aubade1984]

i only tuned in for the last half of the Oscars, since this year i just couldn't bring myself to sit through four hours of BEST SUPPORTING SOUND EDITOR IN A FOREIGN FILM.

so just for a change of pace, i just looked at the complete list of Best Picture winners, and these are the ones i think are great

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[anthonyisright]

You're gonna love Mutiny On The Bounty. I couldn't even finish The Sting. It was bad enough when Robert "I CANNOT ACT BUT DON'T TELL ANYBODY" Redford was galomping along, but 30 minutes in when Paul Newman starts making kissyfaces to the camera the film just becomes too self-adoring for words.

[anthonyisright]

oh, and my favorite film version of Hamlet is a live recording of Richard Burton's that is out on DVD. Shock, I know. His big keyword is "RAGE" and Hume Cronyn does a really bizarre interpretation of Polonius.

[aubade1984]

yeah, i'd like to see Burton's Hamlet. have you seen Look Back in Anger? that's prob my favorite performance of his.

[thisismytruth]

This is a fun post, but I dont have time to read all of it because I have to go to work. I skimmed parts of it and I will read it the rest later today when I'm at work. But...did you know that Gone with the Wind is STILL playing in Atlanta? I was told this by people who grew up there. There's some theater in downtown Atlanta that still shows Gone with the Wind every day. Also, I loved that movie dearly in about 7-8th grade. It is the perfect romance epic. And the dresses are pretty. Which clearly was the entire point for making the film.

[aubade1984]

that's kind of amazing, about the theater in Atlanta. i wish there was a theater in Tucson that showed Revenge of the Nerds every day.

since it was filmed here and all.

[septicemic]

Nice of them to do that film noir montage, since no actual film noir ever won Best Picture.

[faster]

Ordinary People is not only the best movie to ever win Best Picture, but it might be the greatest non-time travel movie ever made.