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Gone with the Wind

1939

★★★★ Liked 1

Never thought the day would come where I could mark this off my watchlist but it HAS and I feel ACCOMPLISHED!!!

It definitely peaks in the first half in my opinion (and it does drag a tad in the final hour), but the filmmaking here is just too exemplary to ignore. And yes, it is most certainly a product of its time, but the direction, the cinematography, and the ACT-ING (Miss ! Vivien ! LEIGH !) all resonate just as much…

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2003

★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

Normally never watch the Middle-Earth movies outside of a marathon, but since I’ve been on a Best Picture binge as of late (and haven’t watched this in its entirety for a good 4-5 years), I decided to give it a go and see how well it holds up on its own...

AND SURPRISE SURPRISE, IT’S STILL SPECTACULAR!!!

Now ignore me while I go have nightmares about Shelob until the end of time x

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Dances with Wolves

1990

★★★★ Liked Watched

I avoided this for SO long because of a) that insane runtime and b) my pettiness at the fact that it beat Goodfellas for Best Picture/Best Director (AND BEST EDITING C’MON) but... it’s actually really great!

Sumptuous cinematography, comionate characterization, and a terrific balance of tone. Miss seeing movies that look and feel so goddamn REAL. My heart will always be with Marty, but I can definitely see why Costner won over the Academy and took home that Best Director…

The Last Emperor

1987

★★½ Watched

Getting back into my Best Picture marathon and... this was somewhat of a rough start 🥴

The Last Emperor certainly isn’t bad by any stretch of the imagination, but in spite of all its elegance, it just left me feeling... empty? I tend to be hit-or-miss with epics (for every Gone with the Wind there’s an English Patient), and this one just didn’t feel like it had the substance to match its sumptuous style. Paints its protagonist with too broad a brush, IMO.

Oh well, onto the next.

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Amadeus

1984

★★★★½ Liked 5

Alright, Salieri has had his time in the spotlight, so here’s MY confession.

As I continue on my “Best Picture winner binge,” I remain increasingly skeptical of all these “epics” with 3+ hour runtimes. This isn’t to say I have anything against “long movies” by any means - Titanic was a childhood staple and my family & I almost wore out our VHS with how often we rewatched that masterwork - but for every Titanic, there’s some empty, elongated, and pretentious…

Traffic

2000

★★★½ Watched

Steven Soderbergh’s use of color-coding for the three separate storylines in this movie walked so that Greta Gerwig’s use of warm and cool hues to delineate between the past and the present in Little Women could RUN