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Tag Archives: best picture

February 2017 Blindspot: Braveheart

February 28, 2017by Hunter Leave a comment

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 […]

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Mrs. Miniver

February 22, 2017by Hunter Leave a comment

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 […]

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Ordinary People

February 20, 2017by Hunter 4 Comments

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 […]

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Out of Africa

February 14, 2017by Hunter Leave a comment

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, […]

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THE BROADWAY MELODY

February 12, 2017by Hunter Leave a comment

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 […]

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Annie Hall

February 10, 2017by Hunter 2 Comments

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 […]

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Around the World in Eighty Days

February 8, 2017by Hunter Leave a comment

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 […]

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Cavalcade

February 6, 2017by Hunter Leave a comment

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 […]

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In the Heat of the Night

February 4, 2017by Hunter Leave a comment

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 […]

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Chicago

February 19, 2016by Hunter Leave a comment

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, […]

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