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• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Actor 1990

  

  The Contenders: Robert De Niro: Awakenings Gerard Depardieu: Cyrano de Bergerac Kevin Costner: Dances with Wolves Richard Harris: The Field Jeremy Irons:... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Director 1948

  

  The Contenders: Laurence Olivier: Hamlet Jean Negulesco: Johnny Belinda Fred Zinnemann: The Search Anatole Litvak: The Snake Pit John Huston: The Treasure of th... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Off Script: Beetlejuice

  

  Films: BeetlejuiceFormat: DVD from Cortland Public Library on The New Portable. Opinions on Tim Burton are varied to put it mildly. Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Picture 1935

  

  The Contenders: Alice Adams The Broadway Melody of 1936 Captain Blood David Copperfield The Informer The Lives of a Bengal Lancer A Midsummer Night’s Dream Les... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Manic Pixie Dream...Wait a Minute...

  

  Films: Happy-Go-LuckyFormat: DVD from Cortland Public Library on The New Portable. I’ve not been nice in the past to the manic pixie dream girl stereotype in... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Original Screenplay 1971

  

  The Contenders: The Hospital (winner) Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion Klute Summer of ’42 Sunday Bloody Sunday What’s Missing There are a lot of... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• History Lesson

  

  Films: Dawson City: Frozen TimeFormat: DVD from DeKalb Public Library on The New Portable. I said the other day that I commented that I was initially worried... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong: Best Adapted Screenplay 2006

  

  The Contenders: Borat Children of Men The Departed (winner) Little Children Notes on a Scandal What’s Missing The collection of movies nominated for Best Adapte... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Coming Soon

  

  Every year around this time, there’s hints and rumors and guesses about what might be in the next edition of the 1001 Movies book. Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Actress 1955

  

  The Contenders: Susan Hayward: I’ll Cry Tomorrow Eleanor Parker: Interrupted Melody Jennifer Jones: Love is a Many-Splendored Thing Anna Magnani: The Rose Tatto... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Wednesday Horror: What We Do in the Shadows

  

  Film: What We Do in the Shadows Format: DVD from Sycamore Public Library on laptop. (Just a short introductory note. You’ve may have noticed that my output... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Off Script: Cube

  

  Films: CubeFormat: Streaming video from NetFlix on the new internet machine. I remember watching Cube for the first time. It’s an odd film in a lot of... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Actor 1984

  

  The Contenders: F. Murray Abraham: Amadeus (winner) Tom Hulce: Amadeus Sam Waterston: The Killing Fields Jeff Bridges: Starman Albert Finney: Under the Volcano... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Off Script: Dracula

  

  Films: DraculaFormat: DVD from Rockford Public Library on The New Portable. Back in the day, before people realized that they could dub movies, it wasn’t... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Toxic Fandom

  

  Films: Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi Format: DVD from DeKalb Public Library on rockin’ flatscreen. Not going to the theater that often means that I don’... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Director 1947

  

  The Contenders: Henry Koster: The Bishop’s Wife Edward Dmytryk: Crossfire George Cukor: A Double Life Elia Kazan: Gentleman’s Agreement (winner) David Lean:... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Wednesday Horror: Dead Snow (Dod Sno)

  

  Films: Dead Snow (Dod Sno) Format: Streaming video from NetFlix on laptop. Just when you thought that everything that could be done with the concept of zombies... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Picture 1932/1933

  

  The Contenders: 42nd Street Cavalcade (winner) A Farewell to Arms I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Lady for a Day Little Women The Private Life of Henry VIII... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Gunn's Golden Rules

  

  Film: The Devil Wears Prada Format: DVD from NetFlix on The New Portable. I am one of the least fashionable people I know, which makes a movie like The Devil... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Original Screenplay 1966

  

  The Contenders: Blow-Up The Fortune Cookie Khartoum A Man and a Woman (winner) The Naked Prey What’s Missing There are some solid nominations for 1966 in the... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES