Oscar Winning Best Picture - Stripped!
- kath
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1930s
• All Quiet on the Western Front†
• It Happened One Night
1940s
• Rebecca
• Casablanca
1950s
• All About Eve
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• On the Waterfront
1970s
• The Godfather
• Annie Hall
1990s
• Schindler's List
out goes from here to eternity. i apologize, really i do, but it's my least favorite of what's left. i gotta be cruel to be kind. besides, i think i would rather shane or roman holiday.
now is a good time to go clean.
• All Quiet on the Western Front†
• It Happened One Night
1940s
• Rebecca
• Casablanca
1950s
• All About Eve
•
• On the Waterfront
1970s
• The Godfather
• Annie Hall
1990s
• Schindler's List
out goes from here to eternity. i apologize, really i do, but it's my least favorite of what's left. i gotta be cruel to be kind. besides, i think i would rather shane or roman holiday.
now is a good time to go clean.
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1930s
• All Quiet on the Western Front†
• It Happened One Night
1940s
• Casablanca
1950s
• All About Eve
•
• On the Waterfront
1970s
• The Godfather
• Annie Hall
Bye bye, Becky. The Grapes of Wrath, which won Ford best director, was much better that year and is possibly Ford's greatest film. Rebecca, on the other hand, is NOT Hitchcock's best film and, while enjoyable enough, there are probably half a dozen other films that year that were much more magical. Maybe even the other Hitchcock movie of the year, Foreign Correspondent, but certainly The Letter, Philadelphia Story, and His Girl Friday. If we're counting foreign films, Pagnol's The Baker's Wife should be thrown in as well.
• All Quiet on the Western Front†
• It Happened One Night
1940s
• Casablanca
1950s
• All About Eve
•
• On the Waterfront
1970s
• The Godfather
• Annie Hall
Bye bye, Becky. The Grapes of Wrath, which won Ford best director, was much better that year and is possibly Ford's greatest film. Rebecca, on the other hand, is NOT Hitchcock's best film and, while enjoyable enough, there are probably half a dozen other films that year that were much more magical. Maybe even the other Hitchcock movie of the year, Foreign Correspondent, but certainly The Letter, Philadelphia Story, and His Girl Friday. If we're counting foreign films, Pagnol's The Baker's Wife should be thrown in as well.
- kath
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ackk. and i love rebecca. ah well. if ya can't stand the heat, stay off of the rocky, allegedly haunted cliffs.
1930s
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• It Happened One Night
1940s
• Casablanca
1950s
• All About Eve
•
• On the Waterfront
1970s
• The Godfather
• Annie Hall
i had to take out all quiet on the western front. it goes next. i don't know what to replace it with (blackmail?) because i really don't know any movies from that year. i don't recognize any on the other nominees list. mayhaps someone can help me in this regard.
six left. and every removal with feel like a splenectomy.
1930s
•
• It Happened One Night
1940s
• Casablanca
1950s
• All About Eve
•
• On the Waterfront
1970s
• The Godfather
• Annie Hall
i had to take out all quiet on the western front. it goes next. i don't know what to replace it with (blackmail?) because i really don't know any movies from that year. i don't recognize any on the other nominees list. mayhaps someone can help me in this regard.
six left. and every removal with feel like a splenectomy.
- Matty Red Sox
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1930s
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1940s
• Casablanca
1950s
• All About Eve
•
• On the Waterfront
1970s
• The Godfather
thanks to mattie because i couldn't decide between 'Annie Hall' and the one I took which is "it happened one night"
both are classics but both seem pretty bound to the era they were made in a way that i don't think our survivors above do.
I still love "it happened one night" - it's pretty flawless in story and movie star terms but it does have an awful lot of 'oh, you kid/23 skidoo' type stuff and I'll admit that i like it but only up to a point.
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1940s
• Casablanca
1950s
• All About Eve
•
• On the Waterfront
1970s
• The Godfather
thanks to mattie because i couldn't decide between 'Annie Hall' and the one I took which is "it happened one night"
both are classics but both seem pretty bound to the era they were made in a way that i don't think our survivors above do.
I still love "it happened one night" - it's pretty flawless in story and movie star terms but it does have an awful lot of 'oh, you kid/23 skidoo' type stuff and I'll admit that i like it but only up to a point.
things are getting pretty cut-throat because that pretty much was the best movie of that year that i can think of without making an expedition of it. i think 'merry widow' and 'the thin man' are good but i don't think they're as good as 'it happened one night'.
i guess we're at that stage of the game now. I have no regrets.
i guess we're at that stage of the game now. I have no regrets.
- kath
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yep, sneelock, things are very bloody now, but there's naught to be done about it. surgery must occur. and then we may heal. sigh.
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• Casablanca
1950s
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• On the Waterfront
1970s
• The Godfather
i love all about eve, love it, and i just cut it out. sniff. in its place, i guess i would put sunset boulevard, although i'm not really thinking clearly at this point, and i must eat some eggrolls right away.
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1940s
• Casablanca
1950s
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• On the Waterfront
1970s
• The Godfather
i love all about eve, love it, and i just cut it out. sniff. in its place, i guess i would put sunset boulevard, although i'm not really thinking clearly at this point, and i must eat some eggrolls right away.
- kath
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geoffcowgill wrote:I fold.
so what's gonna become of this, folk?
shall we all fold, admit these last three are equally superior, getting our judgments off the hook, so to speak, and saving our aesthetic asses?
or shall we carry it through, refusing to give in to the desire to wimp out and cop out, bravely struggling onward until we reach the END of all things, knowing with sighful pride that we did make it, we do have closure, and we can stick it out, even if our cohorts lynch us for the last few strips to come???
ok, maybe we should fold.
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- kath
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= marios = wrote:1950s
• On the Waterfront
1970s
• The Godfather
I like Casablanca, but i love The Godfather and OTW.
well, that's done it then. we had a brief moment of wimpy peace and concord over the top three for a minute there, but marios really *is* right. let us see this to the bitter end.
and i'm gonna do it. i'm feeling ballsy (i.e., ovulatory), so fucque it.
between on the waterfont and the godfather. two of the most bitchinest films ever made. both excellent, with fantastic performances all around, fantastic direction, killer writing, you name it.
what will i choose?
tickticktick...
... the godfather.
forgive me marlon (the younger) and karl and lee j. and rod and elia.
and let us all reiterate the belief, through chanting and prayer, that almost all of the flicks in the original list won oscars for very obvious reasons.
ok.
so now we're gonna do tv series, right?
mwhahaha. i slay myself.
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