Best Picture: #79 Original Release Date: October 6, 2006 Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours 31 minutes Director: Martin Scorsese Quick Impressions: After watching The Departed, my daughter and I made an exciting discovery. Now there remain only ten Best Picture winners she hasn’t seen. (You could reasonably reduce that estimate …
Best Picture: #56Original Release Date: December 9, 1983Rating: PGRuntime: 2 hours, 12 minutesDirector: James L. Brooks Quick Impressions:For her own capricious and mysterious reasons, my grandma could not stand Shirley MacLaine. (She had bafflingly strong feelings about actors. If it hadn’t been for Lauren Bacall, who miraculously escaped her wrath, …
Best Picture: # 48Original Release Date: November 19, 1975Rating: RRuntime: 2 hours, 13 minutesDirector: Milos Formos Quick Impressions:I’ve never read Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and this was my first time watching the film, but I did see the stage play in high school when my …
