Send "I Wanna Go Back to Dixie" to the Governor of Mississippi for the Confederate Heritage Month!! Maybe he'll even understand it

This is my favorite of the Best Picture nominees by far. It's the second half that elevates this to such a powerful film. Most of these types of movies end with the rescue with maybe a short coda showing how everyone lived happily ever after. Dealing with the immediate aftermath of the escape was as devastating as the…

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I saw this almost 40 years ago in Paris on a study tour. I don't know what version I saw, but it was pretty powerful. Finally Ken Russell's style matched the subject matter. What I saw was brilliant with a magnificent performance by Oliver Reed. Time for a restoration and a re-release!

While I don't agree about North by Northwest, I see what you mean. I'm always torn in judging a score by the questions: Do I evaluate it as a pure piece of music?; or Do I judge it by the way it's used in a movie. I love Beethoven's 9th, but crank it up so I loud I can't hear the dialogue or put it in an inappropriate…

Yeah, she hates post-Nights of Cabiria Fellini almost completely. And I don't know where, but she even made a passing reference to how much she didn't like the music to Vertigo and North by Northwest! But still, her non-love of Hitchcock can be tonic after all the blind flatulent overpraise of everything he ever did,…

I don't care about the Academy Awards so much as Hollywood. What are the statistics on black-, women- and other minorities-employment overall in Hollywood. How many minority sound editors, set designers, cinematographers (and this is the only category beside Actor and Supporting Actor for which no woman has ever…

I love Hiroshima, mon amour, too. You can read her comments in her first collection "I Lost It at the Movies" She also has harsh words for 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, West Side Story and lots of other "Classics". But my point is that especially when it comes to older (pre-1990) movies, Rotten Tomatoes is virtually…

They obviously don't include Pauline Kael's reviews. She wrote negative reviews of Hiroshima, mon amour, Broadway Danny Rose and Roger and Me

I think that David Bowie wanted to respect the genius and the integrity of the original and that's why his version is so completely different. And almost as brilliant.

Don't forget his two Iggy Pop collaborations The Idiot and Lust for Life, making for a Berlin Quintuplet (right word?)