Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Mission to Moscow (1943) - 6/10 - Joseph Davies was sent by FDR as an ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1936-1938. He wrote a bestselling book about his experiences and this movie is based on it. This is a heavily pro-Soviet propaganda film and it is laid on so thick at times that it is cringewor...

The Howards of Virginia (1940) - 4/10 - Cary Grant stars as Matt Howard, a friend of Thomas Jefferson since boyhood who is a poor surveyor and later tobacco farmer. He is mistaken for being from a wealthy family with the same last name and becomes attracted to the sister of a snobbish landowner. Th...

Restoration (1995) - 7/10 - Robert Downey, Jr. stars as a physician named Merivel during the reign of Charles II after the restoration of the monarchy in England. He gains the king's favor and is granted a large estate where Merivel can entertain and play and just have fun. He falls for one of the ...

All Thing's Fair (1995) - 7.5/10 - This Swedish film takes place in Malmö in 1943 and features a 15 year old boy named Stig who has an affair with his new teacher, a 30 something year old woman with a husband who spends much of his time either on the road or drunk (or perhaps both). Stig works part...

Sunset (1988) - 6/10 - Tom Mix (Bruce Willis) and Wyatt Earp (James Garner) team up to solve a murder mystery in Hollywood in 1929. Earp is brought in as a technical advisor on a movie about his exploits. The movie stars Tom Mix in the lead role, but they soon have more on their hands than just mak...

The Boat is Full (1981) - 8/10 - During WWII, a small group of refugees plus a deserter slip over the border into Switzerland seeking asylum. However, Switzerland's policy was to return most refugees to Germany. Their 'lifeboat' was full and they did not want any more mouths to feed. The owner of a...

Sundays and Cybéle (1962) - 8/10 - Pierre was a pilot whose plane was shot down in the Indochina War. He suffers from amnesia, vertigo, and other ailments from his experiences. He spends a number of evenings in the local train station and happens to see a young girl whose father is taking her to a ...

Tunes of Glory (1960) - 8/10 - Alec Guinness stars as Major Jock Sinclair, the temporary commander of a Scottish Highland Regiment. He is a coarse sort of officer and finds himself in conflict when Colonel Barrow (John Mills) takes over and tries to reinstill discipline. Guinness and Mills are both...

Banjo on My Knee (1936) - 6.5/10 - Ernie and Pearl are getting married in a small Mississippi River community. Ernie has a temper and runs away on his wedding night when he thinks he's killed a man. Pearl waits a long time, but when Ernie finally returns, he plans to leave again almost right away s...

Red Dwarf: The Promised Land (2020) - 7/10 - The crew of the Red Dwarf encounters a fleet of ships filled with the cat people descended from Lister's cat. While this wasn't the best of Red Dwarf, it was comfortable and fun. I prefer the episodic format of the tv series, but this worked. It's good t...

Reza, you mentioned in an old thread that you watched Portrait of Chieko from someone's private collection on their blog. Do you happen to know if that is still available and whether that person would mind my viewing the film? If it's not available or you can't recall where exactly it was or if the...

I wonder why all of the above have remained exclusively with Archives, Universities or Museums. Shouldn't they be put out there for the "world" to watch and enjoy? I've kept hoping that TCM or somebody would get the rights to some of these movies that are locked away and show them on air....

My reading has been at about the same level this year as in the past few years. I listen to a lot of audiobooks, but also read printed books and the occasional ebook. I'm at about 160 books for the year so far. I read through all of the Expanse novels and novellas this year. I've enjoyed the first f...

Some of the districts in Michigan had already made the decision to be virtual through at least the end of the first semester while others were in-person or planning to do so. The state recently mandated virtual at the high school level for a three week period, but left the decision for the rest of t...

Movies watched from the last 10 days Pathfinder (1987) - 8/10 - The movie takes place around the year 1000 AD in the northern part of what is now Norway. Aigin is a teenage boy of the Sami people who returns home to find that a group of foreign soldiers/raiders have killed his family. He escapes to ...