My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔.
I had to look up the last time I failed to nominate a movie that the Academy chose as the best picture of the year — Around the World in 80 Days back in 1956.
So, no Driving Miss Daisy, but I will leave you with this classic song that first appeared in Spike Lee's anti-Miss Daisy masterpiece, Do the Right Thing:
My favorite year in film history, hands down, and not just because it was the year where I started to treat film seriously and start tracking every film I watched.
ReplyDeleteWhen your Top 10 doesn't have room for My Left Foot, Dead Poets Society, Heathers, Batman, Say Anything, Born on the Fourth of July, Cinema Paradiso, Enemies a Love Story and those are just off the top of my head, you know it's a great year. I own more films from this year than any other year easily.
Oh, Batman -- you divide us so.
ReplyDeleteI find Keaton to be near perfect as Batman, and I find the rest of the film execrable.
Nicholson? I want my Joker to be over the top. Manic. Crazed. Yet devoid of pork. 1989 was the year Nicholson drove Jimmy Dean into bankruptcy.
I suffer from a problem with the "look and feel" of movies from this year, which I admit is a personal preference that shouldn't guide others. But my tastes with regard to "look and feel": have changed over time, and I don't know if this year will pierce my problem. Only time will tell.
May I recommend Monsieur Hire and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! to your readers? I just did. . . .
My Jokers in order:
ReplyDelete1) Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
2) Mark Hamill (animated series)
3) Cesar Romero (1966 television series)
4) Jack Nicholson (Batman)
"Execrable" does not extend to the production design of Gotham City. I quite like it.
ReplyDeleteMythical Monkey, your Jokers line up perfectly with mine. That's my order.
ReplyDeleteCareer-saver [career-reviver?] for Hamill. . . .
Coincidentally -- we watched The Dark Knight Saturday night after surviving the "game" . . . .
ReplyDeletebtw, watching the re-cut Lost Horizon (1937) with its lost footage and lost audio set to still photos reminded me that images are an important part of movies.
ReplyDeletei guess like lyrics in songs. not that I'd know. . . .
I know Mark Hamill will always be remembered for playing Luke Skywalker, but I think his Joker on the animated Batman series is his career-defining work.
ReplyDeleteAnd if you've never heard him read Donald Trump's tweets in the voice of said Joker, I highly recommend them to you.