Directed by Robert Z. Leonard,
Screenplay by William Anthony McGuire
Starring William Powell, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan and Myrna Loy
For the first time in this series – in what is my 50th post in this series – we start with a quiz. From the list below, find the outlier and tell me why it’s the outlier:
2005 – Brokeback Mountain
1990 – Goodfellas
1982 – ET
1980 – Raging Bull Continue reading
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Directed by William Wyler
Screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood
Starring Frederic March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Harold Russell, Myrna Loy
The Oscars are a cyclical bunch. For a while they lavish awards on movies that aren’t terribly deep, i.e., spectacles- Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge on the River Kwai, Oliver – only to eventually snap out of it and give awards to more ‘serious’ and ‘earnest’ films, i.e., boring, like Kramer v. Kramer and Ghandi only to fall back into it Forrest Gump and Titanic. Continue reading
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