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: #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: #29Original Release Date: October 17, 1956Rating: GRuntime: 2 hours, 47 minutesDirector: Michael Anderson Quick Impressions:“Is this a children’s movie?” my daughter would ask in concern every few minutes. “I don’t think they would have conceived of it that way at the time,” I kept answering. “It has an …
