Sunday night, Lauren and I settled in to watch the 1966 Best Picture winner, A Man For All Seasons, the 35th movie we’ve seen from the list so far. Coming off a few very solid movies before it (The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, and The Apartment), it would have a lot to live up to [...]
1965 • The Sound of Music
Friday night, Lauren and I continued our revived Best Picture project with one of the all-time most popular films, The Sound of Music. Lauren had seen it many times before, but I amazingly (or not amazingly, considering my knack for somehow never seeing famous movies) had never seen it. I expected long, slow, boring, [...]
1960 • The Apartment
For the next movie in our Best Picture project, Lauren and I backtracked from 1964 to 1960 to watch The Apartment, which apparently just became available on Netflix. I am happy to say I managed to stay awake for the entire movie this time! The Apartment stars Jack Lemmon as CC Baxter, a regular dude [...]
1964 • My Fair Lady
Lauren and I are back to the Best Picture project after taking the summer months (and some fall months) off to concentrate on watching baseball and TV series on DVD like Six Feet Under and House. But on Monday night, we popped in the next movie from our queue, My Fair Lady, the popular [...]
