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I think we were pretentious and wanted to watch classic movies. My idea of a classic movie is a black and white romantic comedy, and his was gritty 70s movies. Needless to say, it did not work out!
I did watch Silence of the Lambs within the past couple of years and I did like it!
Also I someday maybe need to see The Godfather.
There are some beautiful suits in there.
Second tier- The Awful Truth, It Happened One Night, My Man Godfrey, all of The Thin Man, and anything with Bette Davis.
How many other screwballs have you seen? Some of my favorites (beyond the obvious) are Easy Living, Ball of Fire, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Libeled Lady, Midnight, My Favorite Wife, Love Crazy, The More the Merrier, and Vivacious Lady (which I believe David recommended to me).
(which I believe David recommended to me).
I do like to pimp it! More the Merrier too.
It's hard to imagine screwball comedy without Cary Grant -- Holiday, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story....
For lesser known screwball, I like to recommend It's Love I'm After, with Bette Davis, Olivia De Haviland, and Leslie Howard, plus a fine supporting turn by Eric Blore.
Well, I finally saw my first new-to-me movie on msbelle's list: Five Easy Pieces. This was one I avoided for the longest time simply based on the scene that everyone has seen from it, you know the one, which never really seemed interesting or funny to me. But that scene is so not the rest of this movie! I had no clue about the surprising direction in which this story was headed. Really a fascinating character study with a great performance by Nicholson and so many subtle little touches of humanity. In short, I'm glad I didn't start with Cries and Whispers.
Watched my fourth movie from my list last night, Elizabeth. Yes I am jumping around a bit. This movie has been on my wanting to see list for a long time, just never got selected when it came time to actually watch movies.
Enh. I didn't love it. Cate was great and gorgeous. The cast is really amazing, but there were some very weird camera shot choices that instead of me just seeing the film took me out of it and I said out loud, "why are they doing this?". Specifically 2 scenes with which looks to me like very obvious green screen when I do not see that in any other part of the film.
I was not surprised at all to find on my spreadsheet that it received a Best Pic nod, but not director.
And side note, I do not know what it is about Joseph Fiennes but he bugs me.
FYI: for those with Hulu subscription, it just started streaming two of my favourite films from last year, the Best Doc winner Free Solo (discussed in this thread several times before), and Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters, which was nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar (and previously won Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2018). The latter in particular, I cannot recommend highly enough. It's a deceptively small story, about a ramshackle family barely scraping by in the margins of the city (it's set in Tokyo), who picks up a neglected little girl and decides to keep her. I saw this during TIFF and it gave me SO MANY FEELINGS that it leaked out of me uncontrollably at the end, mostly in the form of copious tears, but not at all in a maudlin or manipulative way. The acting across the board is amazing, including the kids.
Watched my fifth movie Sunday, Julia from 1978. I had no idea what this was about other than 2 female friends.
Again I did not love it. I often wondered why some scenes were included, not sure what they added. I repeatedly wondered why the movie was called Julia.
It was nominated for a bunch of Oscars, not just Best Picture, and won 3. It won best picture BAFTA that year.
Lillian Hellman seems like she would have been an exhausting person. Either that is just how Jane Fonda played it, or she presented as exasperated with everyone and everything most of the time.
Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters, which was nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar (and previously won Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2018). The latter in particular, I cannot recommend highly enough.
I second this. It was my favorite foreign-language film of last year (and there were a number of them that I really liked).