Best Picture: #44Original Release Date: October 9, 1971Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 44 minutesDirector: William Friedkin Quick Impressions:My mother hated The French Connection. I can’t so much as think of the title without imagining my mom raving about how awful it was. In fact, she frequently cited it as the nadir …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 1 hour, 58 minutesDirector: Paul Greengrass Quick Impressions:We finally got a new TV this weekend. Our beloved ten-year-old plasma screen has been treating us to pink popcorn as it warms up for quite a while now. The new OLED my husband picked out was supposed to come two …
Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 47 minutesDirector: Chloé Zhao Quick Impressions:What a beautiful film! I went into Nomadland expecting to like it. After all, it won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. It’s been called the frontrunner for Best Picture for months. I’ve also heard wonderful things about director …
Best Picture: #43Original Release Date: April 22, 1970Rating: PGRuntime: 2 hours, 52 minutesDirector: Franklin J. Schaffner Quick Impressions:Before watching this film, my daughter and I found its theatrical trailer on YouTube, and…um…wow. That left us with quite a strange (and strong) impression of the movie. For one thing, unlike the …
Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 58 minutesDirector: J. Blakeson Quick Impressions:I’m dying to see Nomadland, but we skipped date night this week because we were preoccupied, trying to process what on earth happened to us at the beginning of the week when we lost power for 59 hours in the middle …
Best Picture: #42Original Release Date:Rating: R (Originally X)Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutesDirector: John Schlesinger Quick Impressions:This week we spent fifty-nine hours without power, including one night when the temperature outside was six degrees for several hours. During that time, I couldn’t use a computer, but I still did plenty of …
Rating: RRuntime: 2 hoursDirector: Darius Marder Quick Impressions:I was a bit nervous to watch a film about a heavy metal drummer losing his hearing since every time I watch A Star Is Born, I get a flare up of tinnitus. (A viral inner ear infection a few years ago left …
Best Picture #41Original Release Date: September 26, 1968Rating: GRuntime: 2 hours, 33 minutesDirector: Carol Reed Quick Impressions:I fell in love with Oliver! when I was three years old. If I’m being brutally honest with myself, it’s probably not my favorite movie anymore. (I don’t know if I have just one …
Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 53 minutesDirector: Emerald Fennell Quick Impressions:We actually paid $20 to rent this movie for 48 hours, not a bad value since we’ve already watched it twice. Way back when life was simpler and we still went to the movies every week, we saw the trailer for …
Best Picture: #40Original Release Date: August 2, 1967Rating: ApprovedRuntime: 1 hour, 50 minutesDirector: Norman Jewison Quick Impressions:My grandma loved this movie and the 1980s TV show it inspired. I didn’t watch with her often, but the catchy theme song the film and show share–performed here by Ray Charles–is permanently stuck …
