Ah, Forrest Gump, an old familiar friend. Without question, it is the movie from our Best Picture list that I am most familiar with and have seen the most times. I watched this movie probably twenty or more times on VHS in the 90s, and have seen it time and time again on TV in [...]
1963 • Tom Jones
Tuesday night, Lauren and I set aside a couple hours to watch the next movie in our Best Picture project, 1983′s Terms of Endearment, but I was alarmed to find the Netflix disc was literally broken down the middle. I thought perhaps it was also available on our PS3 Netflix instant queue, but it wasn’t. [...]
1977 • Annie Hall
Sunday night, Lauren and I watched the next movie on our Best Picture list, Woody Allen’s most famous movie, Annie Hall. For a while I had been excited to get to this movie. First of all, it looked like a fun, light-hearted movie. Secondly, after seeing a friend dress as Annie Hall for Halloween last [...]
1956 • Around the World in 80 Days
3.28.09 Watched with Lauren Saturday evening, I returned home after spending the day at the office finishing work on my first of two freelance websites. What should I find when I returned home but Lauren preparing a romantic dinner for two by candlelight! Dinner was tasty, as expected. Then we got the great idea to [...]
1944 • Going My Way
3.1.09 Watched with Lauren On Tuesday night, amidst our packing for the big weekend move, Lauren and I took two hours to watch 1944’s Best Picture winner, “Going My Way,” a light-hearted comedy/drama starring a young Bing Crosby as father-in-training Father O’Malley at the parish under the tutilage of old, cantankerous Father Fitzgibbon. We actually [...]
