Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 54 minutesDirector: Regina King Quick Impressions:I’ve been so excited to see this movie. For one thing, it’s Regina King’s directorial debut. I remember when she won Best Supporting Actress a couple of years ago, and everyone called it a career award, acknowledging an exemplary body of …
Best Picture: #39Original Release Date: December 16, 1966Rating: GRuntime: 2 hoursDirector: Fred Zinnemann Quick Impressions:Boats. If I could sum up A Man for All Seasons in one word, that would be it. Boats. Lots and lots and lots of boats. For the first hour or so, the movie is just …
Rating: RRuntime: 2 hours, 6 minutesDirector: Kornél Mundruczó Quick Impressions:Yesterday afternoon my husband and I said in enthusiastic unison, “Tonight we’ll watch,” and then I finished, “One Night in Miami,” and he said, “Pieces of a Woman.” We blinked at each other in confusion. Then he asked, “What’s One Night …
Best Picture: #38Original Release Date: April 1, 1965Rating: GRuntime: 2 hours, 52 minutesDirector: Robert Wise Quick Impressions:I first saw The Sound of Music when I was twelve, and we bought a VHS copy of the 25th anniversary re-release. Apparently my aunt loved this movie and watched it at least once …
Ma Rainey’s Black BottomRating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 34 minutesDirector: George C. Wolfe Quick Impressions:I didn’t write any movie reviews over Christmas break because my sister and her fiancé were here, and I wanted to be present for them and my children and my father as we celebrated this first Christmas …
Best Picture: # 37Original Release Date: December 25, 1964Rating: GRuntime: 2 hours, 50 minutesDirector: George Cukor Quick Impressions:I’ve had a long love affair with My Fair Lady. I first saw it on stage when I was seven. My gifted class took a special evening field trip to see it performed …
Rating: RRuntime: 2 hours, 30 minutesDirector: Christopher Nolan As the end credits rolled, my husband mused, “I think it’s impossible for human beings to comprehend…” And I broke in, “This movie?” Then I laughed heartily at my own joke. We all know Christopher Nolan likes to craft mindbenders about altered …
Best Picture:#36Original Release Date: June 26, 1963Rating: Not RatedRuntime: 2 hours, 9 minutesDirector: Tony Richardson Quick Impressions:I saw this film when I was about twelve and despised it, but I think all the shaky cam and night-time sequences were a bit hard to follow on an old school, standard definition …
Rating: RRuntime: 2 hours, 11 minutesDirector: David Fincher Quick Impressions:I need to watch Citizen Kane again. I’ve never been a fan. (That’s not something I often volunteer because I worry it makes me sound like a pretentious contrarian.) (Actually it’s because I never go places where anyone would care. That’s …
Best Picture: # 35Original Release Date: December 10, 1962Rating: ApprovedRuntime: 3 hours, 48 minutesDirector: David Lean Quick Impressions:We watched the restored director’s cut of the film, which is a bit longer than the original theatrical release. Because the movie is almost four hours long, we began watching over the weekend. …
