Oscars in Order With Recipes!

Eat My Pantaloons

maryclaire — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:02:28 +0000

What a treat for the senses is Amadeus. Beautiful to look at: Amadeus was filmed in Milos Forman’s home country, Czechoslovakia–mostly in Prague. Because preserved examples from all periods of its history were readily available–other European cities had become too modern. An old European city is a beautiful thing. Plus there are some scenes filmed [...]

Houston, We Have A Female Problem Here!

maryclaire — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:10:31 +0000

I loved, loved, loved Terms of Endearment when it came out in 1983. I laughed, I cried, I cheered when it won Best Picture and Best Actress for Shirley Maclaine (but I thought at the time that the award should have gone to the “turbulently brilliant” Debra Winger: I still do). and all it’s other [...]

Soul Man

maryclaire — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:03:57 +0000

1982 was a great year for movies, really one of the best. It’s certainly up there with 1939 and 1994. Tootsie, An Officer and a Gentleman, ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, My Favorite Year, Sophie’s Choice–all of these great 1982 movies, any one of them would have been a decent choice for Best Picture. But this was [...]

Runnin’ Without the Devil

maryclaire — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:57:18 +0000

Talk about your good timing, the Olympics start later this week (August 2008 ) and Chariots of Fire takes place mostly during the 1924 Paris Olympics. This is a very pretty movie, this Chariots of Fire: Great period costumes–I loved the Gilbert & Sullivan scenes, wish there had been more. A somewhat interesting story about two [...]

Raging People

maryclaire — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:19:52 +0000

There is this great super smart book about movies ( that you should all buy now , it’s really is that great), called 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, that I swore would not have had Ordinary People amongst its 1001. But it, amazingly enough, did, Just why wouldn’t this one be [...]

Au Revoir, New York

maryclaire — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:38:51 +0000

There are some movies you watch about drinking that make you feel like *you’ve* been drinking (The Lost Weekend, Barfly) even when you haven’t. Watching that Oliver Stone movie The Doors always makes me feel a little bit like I’ve been doing drugs. Even though I would *never* do that. [...]

Wrong Country for Young Men

maryclaire — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:37:35 +0000

The Deer Hunter was 1978’s choice as best picture. Lean year, that 1978. The Deer Hunter is full of some great performances–With his soul burning intensity, Robert DeNiro holds this movie together. The Deer Hunter has some great young performances: Christopher Walken–who won best supporting actor for this movie was only 25 when Deer [...]

Transplendent

maryclaire — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:39:02 +0000

Alvy: What’s with all these awards? They’re always giving out awards. Best Fascist Dictator: Adolf Hitler. 1977 was the summer, fall, winter & spring of Star Wars. Star Wars was everywhere and everywhere you went there was Star Wars. It was inescapable. I remember watching the 1977 Oscar ceremony and being [...]

Sunday Night’s Alright For Fighting

maryclaire — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:45:39 +0000

Yo. I was so totally prepared to not like Rocky, 1976’s best winner. I was so prepared to be mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. After all, stupid steroidy Sylvester Stalonne and, ugh, Rocky, beat out one of my all time favorites–Network for best picture. But, surprise, [...]

Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn,

maryclaire — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:22:46 +0000

Apple seed and apple thorn; Wire, briar, limber lock, Three geese in a flock. One flew east, And one flew west, And one flew over the cuckoo’s nest. 1975’s best, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was the first Academy Award winning movie to take all the major awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, [...]