February 2017 Blindspot: Braveheart
The Blindspot Series is a series of twelve posts spread throughout the year designed to offer bloggers a chance to catch up classic films we somehow may have missed. Started […]
Tag Archives: best picture
Mrs. Miniver
Call it Cavalcade, the Sequel. But really, folks, that’s almost accurate, and I don’t use the name to totally diminish the movie. I didn’t mind Cavalcade, and actually found some […]
Ordinary People
I’ve seen Ordinary People twice before, but I wanted to get back to it again after the passing of Mary Tyler Moore. Her atypical role as an uncaring mother here […]
Out of Africa
Sigh. I’ve been meaning to get to Out of Africa for best picture month since I first thought of the idea, and now that I finally have gotten to it, […]
THE BROADWAY MELODY
The Broadway Melody is only the second best picture winner, taking home the award way back in 1929. It’s also the first “all talkie” musical, having synchronized sound throughout. This probably […]
Annie Hall
Annie Hall is a movie I couldn’t have reviewed earlier, when I first saw it, because I knew I didn’t really have a good handle on it. I feel I […]
Around the World in Eighty Days
It’s easy to see why Around the World in Eighty Days would win best picture. It’s a spectacle from its Edward R. Murrow introduction to its Saul Bass animated end […]
Cavalcade
Cavalcade is definitely one of your lesser known Best Picture winners, and after watching it, that doesn’t really surprise me. It’s a film that deals with the turmoil of British […]
In the Heat of the Night
In the Heat of the Night is a movie I totally misremembered. I remember watching it a couple of years ago for BP month, being super bored with it, and […]
Chicago
After Moulin Rogue!‘s nomination in 2001, in 2002 the Academy finally gives another musical a BP win. A musical hadn’t won since 1968 with Oliver! I, of course, love musicals, […]
The Soul of the Plot 