5): That Time I Got Really Into a Different Project and Realized That I’d Deserted a Perfectly Good Bit and Needed to Get Back to It

Okay, this is the hyperspeed version of a movie diary. Two sentences! Each of you movies gets two sentences! The Chosen, 1981, dir. Jeremy Kagan / Adored this movie based on the Chaim Potok novel I’ve never read and now realize I must read, given how closely this adheres to Brideshead Revisited and especially A… Read More Movie Diary 2023 (3/17-4/5): That Time I Got Really Into a Different Project and Realized That I’d Deserted a Perfectly Good Bit and Needed to Get Back to It

April 6, 2023April 6, 2023 TimLeave a comment

Better than the Oscars: 20-16

The following is from my series of Oscar Best Picture rankings, as well as my strongly worded suggestions for what should have won from among the nominees. For an introduction to the project, click here. For a way to vote on some Oscar-related ideas, click here. If I’ve written a review on any of the… Read More Better than the Oscars: 20-16

July 15, 2018July 15, 2018 Tim1 Comment

Marty (1955)

Dir. Delbert Mann. Starring Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti Usually one should shy away from calling a movie “universal,” but there really is something universal in Marty: give people what they tell you they want, and they’ll complain about not getting enough. In Act I, Marty (Borgnine), an amiable and well-meaning butcher on the cusp of… Read More Marty (1955)

February 2, 2018 Tim1 Comment

Seeing Things Secondhand

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Movie Diary 2023 (3/17-4/5): That Time I Got Really Into a Different Project and Realized That I’d Deserted a Perfectly Good Bit and Needed to Get Back to It

Better than the Oscars: 20-16

Marty (1955)