Best Picture: #58Original Release Date: December 20, 1985Rating: PGRuntime: 2 hours, 41 minutesDirector: Sydney Pollack Quick Impressions:Autobiographical writing is difficult to do well. I remember once having a conversation with my daughter in the park about which is true, fiction or non-fiction. I told her, “It really depends. Non-fiction can …
Best Picture: #53Original Release Date: September 19, 1980Rating: RRuntime: 2 hours, 4 minutesDirector: Robert Redford Quick Impressions:My mother loved Ordinary People. She would often watch her favorite films again and again, turning them on for background noise while she did housework, and giving them her full attention only occasionally. She’d …
Best Picture: #46Original Release Date: December 25, 1973Rating: PGRuntime: 2 hours, 9 minutesDirector: George Roy Hill Quick Impressions:Two things jumped out at me when watching The Sting. One is that the young Robert Redford is so incredibly handsome. I guess I didn’t realize that because the older, present day Redford …
