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. …
Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 56 minutesDirector: Ron Howard Quick Impressions:Where do I start with this movie? Author J.D. Vance has become quite the buzzy, controversial figure. His work is widely reviled, which probably means that it’s even more widely celebrated by people I don’t know. (Generally people despise something only …
Best Picture: #34Original Release Date: October 18, 1961Rating: ApprovedRuntime: 2 hours, 33 minutesDirector: Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise Quick Impressions:“I’m not crazy about the romance or the gangs,” my daughter observed when we were about halfway through West Side Story. “I just kind of like the way it’s the first …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 1 hour, 34 minutesDirector: Edoardo Ponti Quick Impressions:Last Thursday, I was so frustrated at not being able to watch this movie yet because it was premiering the next day. I thought, “Fine, fine, I’ll go ahead and watch Harry Melling dump spiders on his face for now, but …
Best Picture: #33Original Release Date: June 15, 1960Rating: ApprovedRuntime: 2 hours, 5 minutesDirector: Billy Wilder Quick Impressions:Late last Thursday night, I wrote half a review of The Devil All the Time, a film I liked more than I expected. My tone was glib, kind of playful, and then Friday morning …
Best Picture: #32Original Release Date: November 24, 1959Rating: GRuntime: 3 hours, 32 minutesDirector: William Wyler Quick Impressions:Nobody dies in Ben-Hur. I mean none of the actors, not on screen. This is a film that played in the background of my life throughout my childhood. I always seemed to wander through …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 2 hours, 1 minuteDirector: Ben Wheatley Quick Impressions:I’ve loved Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca since I became fascinated with it as a young child. I just re-watched it again with my daughter this summer since it was the thirteenth film to win Best Picture. Then in late August when school …
