My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔.
Another great year for movies.
By the way, if you've never seen Lawrence of Arabia, don't let its reputation as a classic dissuade you — it's one of the most rootin'est tootin'est popcorn shootin'est movies of all time, a great Saturday night flick (assuming your Saturday night starts around eight and ends at midnight).
Too many times people hear the word "classic" and they think "funeral home." And sometimes they're right.
In my opinion, movies should always make you feel something — laughter, sadness, fear, joy, anger, exhilaration, euphoria — but they should never feel like work. You can experience those emotions, big and small, in all sorts of ways, and not just in the obvious, cookie-cutter way you might expect. But you absolutely should feel something.
That's my promise here at the Monkey — you watch my picks for best picture, you will know where your time and your money went.
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4 comments:
Really great year, at the level of 1957’s greatness. And you even didn’t mention Ivan’s Childhood, The Given Word, Salvatore Giuliano (these three movies are in my top ten of 1962), Knife in the Water...
Joe Morani
At last -- a year for which our picks coincide.
Universe must be tilting further on its axis . . . .
Wait -- I misspoke.
I went for Shirley Jones -- for all of the obvious reason
universe settling back to fucked up
I've been meaning to respond to the comments -- it's been a busy week. I'm debating whether to make an announcement, re: my schedule, but I probably won't until it actually keeps me from blogging. And since I'm all blogged up to mid-February, it can wait a while.
Say, Joe Morani, do you have a web site where you list your picks for each year -- I would happily incorporate it into my thinking.
As for you, mister muleboy, Shirley Jones is an inspired choice ...
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