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- Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:41 am
- Forum: Other Oscar Discussions
- Topic: Best & Worst Winners
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1115
This reflects on my sentiments on a given, boring day, and it’s more about how I like and respect the film and not necessarily about my evaluation of them as winners – I would go for Sunset Boulevard over All About Eve, I might pick Tom Jones as a winner on that particularly weak year, certainly am...
- Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:46 am
- Forum: Other Oscar Discussions
- Topic: Best Picture Shouldabeens
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15761
This is a crusade I can’t help but embarking on. Sorry. Yes, The Passion of Joan of Arc is masterful, and those early Hollywood talkies did struggle (though, for example, The Love Parade is great by any standard and an Ernst Lubitsch’s piece should be on any such list, imho), there was probably no ...
- Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:05 pm
- Forum: Other Oscar Discussions
- Topic: Best Actress Shouldabeens
- Replies: 45
- Views: 22243
If I had it in my power, these were the Oscar winners for best Actress: 1928 Lillian Gish, The Wind 1929 ? 1930 Greta Garbo, Anna Christie 1932 ? 1931 Marlene Dietrich, Morocco 1933 Katharine Hepburn, Little Women 1934 Bette Davis, Of Homan Bondage 1935 Katharine Hepburn, Alice Adams 1936 Carole Lo...
- Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:35 am
- Forum: The Damien Bona Memorial Oscar History Thread
- Topic: 1960 Oscar Shouldabeens
- Replies: 29
- Views: 13375
A movie about unfulfilled lives of sheep herders set against rural, sprawling landscape, directed tastefully but in a non flamboyant fashion by a rather guarded filmmaker – what was in it for Damien to be enthusiastic about? There is a moment in The Sundowners, when Deborah Kerr sees a well bread y...
- Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:20 am
- Forum: 2000 - 2007
- Topic: The Official Review Thread of 2005
- Replies: 272
- Views: 47879
The tennis motive, the ambitious guy of meager background moving up by marrying the daughter of a big shot, having another, less socially appropriate, woman stashed away, and having this problem solved by murder, the tennis motive again – was I the only one thinking of Strangers on the Train while ...
- Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:40 pm
- Forum: 2000 - 2007
- Topic: Brokeback Mountain
- Replies: 367
- Views: 44204
I’m sure that based on the actual performance, you’re right about Michelle Williams, Marco, but you didn’t take into consideration the Shirley Fonda syndrome. The fifth Mrs. Henry Fonda was very candid when she revealed that since Hunk had no interest in the whole process involved with the Oscars, ...
- Sat Mar 12, 2005 2:44 pm
- Forum: Other Oscar Discussions
- Topic: An Oscar-related Quiz
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2377
- Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:46 am
- Forum: Other Oscar Discussions
- Topic: An Oscar-related Quiz
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2377
- Sun Feb 27, 2005 12:27 pm
- Forum: Other Oscar Discussions
- Topic: An Oscar-related Quiz
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2377