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).

No movie today, but I did do some work on a spreadsheet of top 10 grossing films (US or NA) years 1970-present. Why? oh I love a list and have been accused of having giant holes in my movie watching of "mainstream" movies. I do not think I really have such massive gaps, but am doing the list regardless to see how things fall out. I've seen 84/174 thus far.

So anyone I sent a link to the list to already, you can also check out the new tab and feel free to leave recs of things you think I should absolutely see or avoid, or whatever.

Thanks for the Hulu tip, Vonnie! I just added both to my watchlist.

I love a list and have been accused of having giant holes in my movie watching of "mainstream" movies.

Oh, I have giant holes in my "mainstream" movie watching and mostly they are intentional.

Tonight's movie is M*A*S*H.

I saw M*A*S*H at a drive in theater with my boyfriend when I was in high school. It was a double feature with Patton. I loved the movie, but after we watched them back to back (ya know between drive-in stuff), we both knew that Patton was going to get the awards that year. Still MASH was awesome.

Pop culture is such an odd thing. H and I still refer to "the Pros from Dover,"--sometimes *we* are the pros from Dover. Or "finest kind." Our vernacular is so mortared and spackled with movie lines it's difficult sometimes to recall where we first encountered a particular line or turn of phrase.

Saw Captain Marvel. Loved it. LOVED the post credits scene.

Now watching Howard's End.

Movie Watch continues. Just finished Howard's End which was nominated for Best Picture in 1993.

Howard's End
A Few Good Men
The Crying Game
Scent of a Woman
Unforgiven - winner

Directed by James Ivory (A Room With a View, The Remains of the Day), starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, and Vanessa Redgrave.

I thought that maybe I had seen this before, but I don't think so. What an infuriating entitled bunch of 1%ers. Maybe not the best thing to watch when you are seething for some full blown class-warfare. Good performances all around, the reservation of all of it was astounding - the manners, the formality, the protocol just for everyday life.