Posts Tagged ‘Billy Wilder’

Blu-ray Highlights for 1/24/12 – “A Lot” Is My Favorite Number

Blu-ray Highlights for 1/24/12 – “A Lot” Is My Favorite Number

After a slow start, the year’s Blu-ray release schedule finally heats up this week. Even if you don’t find the new day-and-date releases too exciting, the studios are unleashing a flood of great catalog titles to keep you busy.
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Weekend Roundtable: Movies the AFI Top 100 Ignored

Weekend Roundtable: Movies the AFI Top 100 Ignored

This week’s Roundtable spun out of last week’s topic. Specifically, it was prompted by a comment from reader Brian H, who suggested that we should put together our own list of 100 films that didn’t make the AFI Top 100 Movies list. I don’t know that we have the wherewithal to do a hundred titles all on our own, but perhaps we can get the ball rolling. We’ll give you our picks for movies that the AFI inexplicably ignored, and you can fill in the rest. Let’s see how far we get.
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Weekend Roundtable: Classic or Important Movies You’ve Never Seen

Weekend Roundtable: Classic or Important Movies You’ve Never Seen

It’s confession time once again in the Roundtable. If you’re a reasonably film literate person, you’ve no doubt seen countless movies over the course of your lifetime. Nonetheless, it simply isn’t possible to see every movie you want. You’re bound to have missed some classic or supposedly “important” film along the way that it may seem like everyone else has seen, or expects you to have seen. So, fill us in. Where are the gaps in your film knowledge?

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Weekend Roundtable: Winners That Oscar Got Right

Weekend Roundtable: Winners That Oscar Got Right

We may like to gripe around here about all the mistakes that the Academy Awards have made over the years, but we also have to acknowledge that, every once in a while, Oscar gets something right too. For this week’s Roundtable, we’re going to try a little positivity. Here’s our look at some Academy Award winners that actually deserved their acclaim.

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