Day 35: It Happened One Night

It Happened one Night: 1934: Winner of the 7th Academy Award

Starring:

Clark Gable as Peter Warne

Claudette Colbert as Ellie Andrews

Walter Connolly as Alexander Andrews

Roscoe Karns as Oscar Shapeley

Jameson Thomas as "King" Westley

Alan Hale as Danker

Arthur Hoyt as Zeke

Blanche Friderici as Zeke's wife

Charles C. Wilson as Joe Gordon

Wow,  Claudette Colbert, show your gams girl! I never knew that the showing of the leg to get some  male traveler to stop was from this gem from the mid -thirtes. Starring two of the greatest actors of the time, Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable. Gable has also popped out on “Mutiny on the Bounty” and the very small movie “Gone with the Wind.”  Although in this one he plays a lovelorn sailor, I mean a lovelorn gambler, I mean a lovelorn journalist. Ah yes that’s the ticket. Well he is a down on his luck journalist who finds himself riding on the same bus to New York with a millionaire’s daughter who in her discontent has run away from home.  So he takes her on after she loses her luggage and any material possession she may own.  As per diem she falls in love with him and it’s a bit of a cat and chase movie until the end.    I saw this movie in the Sex and the City 2 movie actually. The very first scene where Carrie and Big are at the Hotel after Stanford’s wedding. They watch the movie and Carrie says Claudette Colbert is “pretty” (sorry I don’t think so.) I like Clark Gable in this movie I really do. It might actually be my favorite. But considering I have only watched.. umm three Clark Gable movies not sure if that stands. Also I had a bit of a marathon watched all three Clark Gable included movies, so saw his many facets and could see why he was so loved by studios. Even though I will say his justification air of authority annoyed me in Mutiny on the Bounty. 

It also won awards for :

Best Picture :Columbia Pictures (Frank Capra and Harry Cohn)

Best Director: Frank Capra

Best Actor :Clark Gable

Best Actress: Claudette Colbert

Best Writing, Adaptation: Robert Riskin

Day 34: Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind:1938: Winner of the 12th Academy Award

Starring:

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara

Clark Gable as Rhett Butler

Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes

Olivia de Havilland as Melanie Hamilton

Hattie McDaniel as Mammy

Thomas Mitchell as Gerald O'Hara

Barbara O'Neil as Ellen O'Hara

Evelyn Keyes as Suellen O'Hara

Ann Rutherford as Carreen O'Hara

George Reeves as Stuart Tarleton

Fred Crane as Brent Tarleton

Oscar Polk as Pork

Butterfly McQueen as Prissy

Victor Jory as Jonas Wilkerson

Howard Hickman as John Wilkes

Alicia Rhett as India Wilkes

You will at one point in your life watch this movie. Guaranteed, if you don’t watch it at school then you shall watch it on AMC. If you don’t have cable you will most surely see it on Netflix. And if you don’t have that you may watch it on some other movie. Maybe not all of it but enough to strike your fancy and so then you shall watch it in entirety. I watched it when I was 13 after I read “Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.” The movie was so riveting and so new for its  time no wonder it won a bajillion awards. Although true “The Wizard of Oz” was also nominated for the Best Picture award it lost. There was no competition for this.  This movie not only sweeps in awards it sweeps in time. It also provided America with it’s exit line. “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”  Rhett Butler don’t we all want him, nobody wanted that pansy of an Ashley! Scarlett was out of her damn jealous mind. And Milly that kind hearted soul.  The story of how the civil war riveted the south how it changed it people and the struggle of one beautiful girl who with determination and a helping of ugly prevailed and got to keep her land.

It also won awards for:

Best Director: Victor Fleming

Best Actress :Vivien Leigh

Best Adapted Screenplay: Sidney Howard

Awarded posthumously

Best Supporting Actress: Hattie McDaniel

Received a miniature "Oscar" statuette on a plaque

Best Cinematography, Color: Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan

Best Film Editing :Hal C. Kern and James E. Newcom

Received a miniature "Oscar" statuette on a plaque, replaced with a regular statuette in 1962

Best Art Directiion : Lyle Wheeler

Day 33:Best Years of Our Lives

The Best Years of Our Lives: 1946: Winner of the 19th Academy Award

Starring:

Myrna Loy as Milly Stephenson

Fredric March as Technical Sergeant Al Stephenson

Dana Andrews as Captain Fred Derry

Teresa Wright as Peggy Stephenson

Virginia Mayo as Marie Derry

Cathy O'Donnell as Wilma Cameron

Hoagy Carmichael as Uncle Butch

Harold Russell as Petty Officer 2nd Class Homer Parish

Gladys George as Hortense Derry

Roman Bohnen as Pat Derry

This movie was spectacular. I absolutely loved it, maybe it was Dana Andrews or the fact that it wasn’t a about war. Well not all of it actually. The movie is about returning war veterans and the hardships they encounter when they come home to unfinished lives. I demand particular attention to the drunk scene which is perhaps the first scene of the movie but so worth it. The three stories all different are united by the ideal of a war veteran returning to a broken country. I won’t lie to you the story of the last, the youngest soldier irked me some .  Him not being able to accept his hook handedness, there was just something so annoying about him, maybe the fact that everyone has accepted the fact that he has no hands but he has not. HE can’t accept love from anyone. That was the only part of the movie that annoyed me. However I very much love the old couple. They were the best. I loved how they tried to rekindle  there loving taking off right where they had left. I can see why this movie won best picture , it was three faces about a reality and even if it was romanticized it was still awesome.

It also won awards for

Best Director:William Wyler

Best Actor :Fredric March

Best Writing (Screenplay):Robert E. Sherwood

Best Supporting Actor :Harold Russell

Best Film Editing:Daniel Mandell

Best Music (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture):Hugo Friedhofer

Honorary Award:To Harold Russell

You have been Crossed Out

Here's the list of the movies again and I'm going to cross of the one's i've already watched seeing as how on thrusday i shall post the 42nd movie and thats half.


Wings

The Broadway Melody

All Quiet on the Western Front


Cimarron


Grand Hotel

Cavalcade

It Happened One Night

Mutiny on the Bounty


The Great Zeigfield.


The Life of Emile Zola

You Can’t Take it with You

Gone with the Wind


Rebecca


How Green was My Valley


Mrs. Miniver


Casablanca

Going My Way

The Lost Weekend

The Best Years of our Lives


Gentleman’s Agreement


Hamlet


All The Kings Men


All About Eve


An American in Paris

The Greatest Show on Earth

From Here to Eternity

On the Waterfront

Marty

Around the World in 80 Days

The Bridge on the River Kwai


Gi-Gi


Ben-Hur

The Apartment


West Side Story


Lawrence of Arabia


Tom Jones

My Fair Lady


The Sound of Music

A Man for all Seasons

In the Heat of the Night

Oliver!

Midnight Cowboy

Patton

The French Connection

The Godfather

The Sting

The Godfather II

One Flew over the Cukoo’s Nest


Rocky


Annie Hall


The Deer Hunter


Kramer vs. Kramer

Ordinary People


Chariots of Fire


Gandhi

Terms of Endearment

Amadeus

Out of Africa

Platoon

The Last Emperor

Rain Man


Driving Miss Daisy


Dances with Wolves

The Silence of the Lambs


Unforgiven

Schindler’s List

Forrest Gump

Brave Heart

The English Patient


Titanic


Shakespeare in Love

American Beauty


Gladiator

A Beautiful Mind

Chicago


The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King


Million Dollar Baby


Crash

The Departed

No Country for Old Men

Slumdog Millionaire

The Hurt Locker

The King’s Speech

I'm missing alot of the 80's  and form 65 to 75 roughly i believe. As well as the whole last five to ten year's. However I'll get to them I promise!

Day 32: American Beauty

American Beauty: 1999 : Winner of the 72nd Academy Award

Starring:

Kevin Spacey ... Lester Burnham

Annette Bening ... Carolyn Burnham

Thora Birch ... Jane Burnham

Wes Bentley ... Ricky Fitts

Mena Suvari ... Angela Hayes

Chris Cooper ... Col. Frank Fitts, USMC

Peter Gallagher ... Buddy Kane

Allison Janney ... Barbara Fitts

Scott Bakula ... Jim Olmeyer

Sam Robards ... Jim Berkley

Barry Del Sherman ... Brad Dupree

I love this movie because it introduced audiences into a world completely different than the one we are all accustomed to. So Lester is a man who has lived his life according to all the conventional rules and ideals of society only to find himself, unhappy and quite worthless. His wife is a beautiful picture with a bit of mold on the inside, the woman's stark raving mad if you ask me. And his daughter Janey is a social misfit with an askew view on society, yet trying her hardest to conform. These are all the intertwined points on one of the century's most acclaimed pictures. I watched this because a friend lent it to me and I watched it with my parent's. If you have ever seen it you know how uncomfortable I must have been, but despite that I loved it. I just bought it recently and I’ve already watched it twice. Also I have never looked at a red rose, that could possibly be an American Beauty the same way ever again. That scene where he imagines her in rose petals from the ceiling, I thought was just so …. oh man it was great. It captures the true nature of passion and unrestrained imagination. If you haven't watched this movie, you can't have lived, it is beautiful and poignant, everyone must watch!

It also won awards for:

Best Director,

Best Actor :Kevin Spacey

Best Original Screenplay

Best Cinematography

Day 31: Silence of the Lambs

Silence of the Lambs:1991: Winner of the 64th Academy Award

 

Starring:

Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling

Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter

Scott Glenn as Jack Crawford

Ted Levine as Jame Gumb, "Buffalo Bill"

Anthony Heald as Frederick Chilton

Brooke Smith as Catherine Martin

Diane Baker as Senator Ruth Martin

Kasi Lemmons as Ardelia Mapp

Frankie Faison as Barney Matthews

Tracey Walter as Lamar

Charles Napier as Lt. Boyle

Danny Darst as Sgt. Tate

Alex Coleman as Sgt. Jim Pembry

Dan Butler as Roden

Paul Lazar as Pilcher

Ron Vawter as Paul Krendler

Roger Corman as FBI Director Hayden Burke

Chris Isaak as SWAT Commander

Harry Northup as Mr. Bimmel

Masha Skorobogatov as Young Clarice Starling

Don Brockett as cellmate and "Pen Pal"

Anthony Hopkins I love you! Everything you do I love! As the genius madman/ cannibal Hannibal Lecter, Hopkins was damn brilliant. It is also further proof that the man can be evil and you still have to love him. He was on screen for no longer than ten minutes and he won the oscar. And who could forget his big line. “ A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti..apffffffffff.” (The sound effects and face are much more menacing I promise.)Further I think this is my favorite Jodie Foster movie, she is a very convincing driven cop who wants to prove her worth more than anything else and as a near an equal as can be to Lecter. I saw this movie when I was fourteen for the first time and I wont lie, I was quite taken, never had I seen a thriller this brilliantly adapted, I decided to read the book , and dear blog afficionado, I was not disappointed! To this day it is one of my favorite trilogy's both in film and book, following on the heels of LOTR. I know it isn't the movie for the faint or weak of stoamch, but I dare anyone to watch and not like it.

It also won awards for:

Best Actress: Jodie Foster

Best Actor : Anthony Hopkins

Best Director: Jonathon Demme

Best Adapted Screenplay :Ted Tally

Day 30: Rocky

Rocky: 1976: Winner of the 49th Academy Award

Starring:

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa

Talia Shire as Adrian Pennino

Burt Young as Paulie Pennino

Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed

Burgess Meredith as Mickey Goldmill

Joe Spinnell as Tony Gazzo

I liked this movie, but I couldn't help thinking there was something wrong with Rocky. Like maybe he wasn't all there mentally. It is the story of the American underdog and I understand that. It was a chance for the Holllywood underdog (Stallone) to show his acting chops. My likes about this movie we're obviously the soundtrack, and the girlfriend. Shire is cute and quirky and exactly the kind of girl you can mentally picture Rocky with. I also loved the scene where he walks the girl to her house and he gives her a lecture on how to behave, and at the end of the walk she calls him a perve or dumbass... that was hilarious. What I didn't like was the psycho brother and the cocky boxer! First of all that guy was a huge pain in the ass to look at and secondly he should have been more supportive instead of looking for recompense. Then the boxer, OK I get he is the best and Rocky just wanted to go the distance, but come on he should have one. This guy literally had nothing her improvised and he was the only one who got to the 15 rounds with Apollo Creed. Dude it irked me that he didn't win. I can see why this movie won awards, the nation needed a hero, even if he was a halfwit.

It also won awards for:

Best Film Editing

Won

Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad

Best Film Editing Won Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad

Best Director Won John G. Avildsen

Best Director

Won

John G. Avildsen

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Best Director

Won

John G. Avildsen