The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946); and Glory For Me, by MacKinlay Kantor

[nwhyte]

A prolonged bout of man-flu meant that I had little energy for much apart from lying in bed reading and watching films over the last week or so. (Fully recovered now, thanks.) So that takes me to The Best Years Of Our Lives, winner of the 1947 Oscar for Best Motion Picture, with another seven (eight by some counts) Oscars on the night - Best

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[redfiona99]

I thought you'd seen the Olivier Henry V.

"It's A Wonderful Life" is one of those films I am sure are good, I just don't like it. "The Big Sleep" oddly is also in that group. I've seen remarkably few of the other films. There's a Hitchcock, which is one of the few I haven't seen, but the bits I have seen are good.

[nwhyte]

Nope, haven’t seen any of the Olivier Shakespeares, though I screencapped Patrick Troughton and Peter Cushing in Hamlet (which I will get to soon).

Sorry that was me.

[redfiona99]

Ooh, in that case, I like it a lot more than modern critics (although I understand where a lot of the criticisms come from) and I love the way the opening and the transition back to the Globe are done at the end.