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Breakfast at Tiffany's, Moon River makes my spine tingle every time I hear it.
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Weird Granny Slater
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Out of those 10, it’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest for me.
But though there are some decent films on that list, it’s so relentlessly American (e.g. Tom Jones, Lawrence of Arabia, The Artist all won). What’s more, I think it shows the historical lack of judgment of the awarding committees that many American greats were either not nominated (e.g. Blade Runner) or lost out to inferior films (e.g. Citizen Kane).
And, of course, many of the greatest films that might have won are not American at all (400 Blows, Mouchette, Stalker, Alice in the Cities, Wild Strawberries, etc, etc).
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I would like to see that young deaf girl win one on sunday.
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Out of this lot "Deer hunter" and "Gone with the wind, possibly "Gladiator" could be added to the list in the opening thread in my opinion but how "Braveheart" won an Oscar I will never know.
https://www.today.com/popculture/complete-list-every-best-picture-oscar-winner-ever-t107617Jan Higgins
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A list obviously drawn up with the male voter in mind, not one jumps out at me but Schindler's list was good.
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I don't know how they decide on who makes up the panel but some of the films that should have won but didn't suggest that it is not simply a case of being the best film, I would add "Apocalypse Now" to the ones in the link.
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Agree with Apocalypse Now: Kramer vs Kramer may as well have been a TV movie for all the use it makes of the medium. I'd add a few favourites: La Grande Illusion (1938), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Double Indemnity (1944), The Exorcist (1973), The Conversation (1974), Lost in Translation (2003).
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From the country which brought you flavor and color I'm afraid.
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Weird Granny Slater wrote:Agree with Apocalypse Now: Kramer vs Kramer may as well have been a TV movie for all the use it makes of the medium. I'd add a few favourites: La Grande Illusion (1938), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Double Indemnity (1944), The Exorcist (1973), The Conversation (1974), Lost in Translation (2003).
Double Indemnity came out in an era of quality output, Sunset Boulevard and the Third Man spring to mind. In later years I rather liked the Mike Leigh films not just because they're British but his understanding of human foibles.
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https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2018/mar/04/peter-bradshaw-predictions-oscars-2018-academy-awards
Runners and riders here, would like to see "Darkest Hour" win, I disagree with the writer who seems to believe that as the central character was an unpleasant cove the film shouldn't win. Gary Oldman is one of the best living actor persons and deserves recognition.
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:Double Indemnity came out in an era of quality output...
Another one from the same year (1944) on BBC2 1445 this afternoon:
Laura. It did win an award for cinematography but wasn't even nominated for best film.
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I always thought "Trainspotting" deserved more accolades. Only a 90 minute film if I remember correctly with the first half extolling the virtues of heroin and the second half putting us right. A great social study and also very entertaining.
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Good true film is Paul Potts the singer
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Pleased he gave Powell & Pressburger a nod; they pretty much dominated quality British film in the 1940s with, e.g., The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes, A Matter of Life & Death and A Canterbury Tale. Another of theirs, the Technicolor erotic beauty Black Narcissus (1947), was on BBC2 this afternoon. Needless to say, none won a best picture Oscar.
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Signed up to Netflix a couple of months ago after giving up on the dross on our TV screens and have enjoyed great films from Cuba. France, Senegal, Cambodia, Egypt and even South Korea.
They have an interminable mixture of old and new and I have just finished watching Martin Scorsese's masterpiece from 1976 "Taxi Driver" with Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster.
I would thoroughly recommend shelling out £6 a month for a bottomless pit of Films and TV programmes that suit your taste.
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