Movie Year Director Actor Actor Ranking The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg Jeff Goldblum Geena Davis 4 Common Threads 1989 Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman 16 Somewhere in Time 1980 Jeannot Szwarc Christopher Reeve Jane Seymour 70 Man Hunt 1941 Fritz Lang Walter Pidgeon Joan Bennett 71 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 Philip Kaufman Donald… Read More Better than AFI’s 100 Passions: Premature Death Cliché
Dir. William Wyler. Starring Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford I will come clean about this movie: I had not seen it until recently, and worse still, I didn’t know much more about it than what you’d need to get a question right on it at trivia (“barbra streisand oscar fanny brice funny girl my… Read More Funny Girl (1968)
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: 55-51
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Starring Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, Jeanne Crain Dir. Vincente Minnelli. Starring Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon In the wake of film noir, which used voiceovers and flashbacks to greater effect than ever before, A Letter to Three Wives and The Bad and the Beautiful are logical conclusions outside the genre. A Letter to Three… Read More A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
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