1928 • Wings

As of Sunday, February 20, 2011, Lauren and I had three movies left on our Best Picture project… 2009′s Hurt Locker, 1933′s hard-to-find Cavalcade, and 1928′s silent Wings. If there was ever a day to watch the 14 ten-minute segments of Wings on YouTube, Sunday’s 15-inch blizzard was the day. A 1.75 of Windsor, a [...]

Bonus! Oscar Documentary Shorts Nominees 2011

With just three Oscar-winning films left to review for this blog, I will take a short break to review the five nominees for this year’s Documentary Shorts award. On Sunday, a couple friends and I took in the mini-marathon of movies at the Riverview Theater in Minneapolis, sitting through about 3.5 hours of documentary footage. [...]

2008 • Slumdog Millionaire

We’re so close to the end of our Best Picture project! 2008′s Slumdog Millionaire is the second most recent winner (soon to be third), and it doesn’t seem like it was all that long ago that Lauren and I, then just engaged, saw it in the Edina Landmark Theater. It was up against some stiff [...]

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