Filmgoddess

This makes no sense to me. Your friends could name every Best Picture winner ever but couldn't name this year's? And that's supposed to say what ... about your friends? or about THE ARTIST?

Pacino? Egads. With each passing year he gets worse and worse. One could argue that after 1976 he hasn't given a single authentic performances on film. He just becomes a bigger cartoon. Of course, he serves one very important purpose: he almost makes the last 30 years of DeNiro's lackluster career tolerable!

More, more, and yet more! I won't be completely happy until TCM plays every film that the great Joan ever made!

A great man, both personally and professionally, period. A record of accomplishment over the last 50 years that is almost unsurpassed in Hollywood. He should be celebrated and remembered and it's a darn shame that the death of a young nobody with only the smallest connection (via birth) to a celebrity should overshadow the death of a great man in the mainstream media is a crime.

First and foremost, they are way over-priced for what you get. DVDs should never cost more than $5 especially for material that is more than 50 years old and in many cases unrestored. Second, all of WA titles are available on different film sites and torrent sites for free which is how material that is that old should be shared. Third, many of these discs will not play on DVD players and they almost NEVER play on DVD recorder players which is the primary DVD player for many people. Fourth, save your money for Criterion Collection discs where items are lovingly restored. The Warner Archive discs are shoddy and just another way for corporate Hollywood to wring more money out of stuff that should have long ago (if not for draconian Copyright laws) entered into the public domain. Long live file sharing, not profit-mongering!

That one is easy for me. FRIGHT from 1971. Shown the other night. Awful on just about every level. Any other nominees?

The Oscar winner (Best Supporting Actress 1947 for GENTLEMAN's AGREEMENT) died in a New York hospital after suffering a heart attack. The last surviving member of the ALL ABOUT EVE cast, she had nothing but nice things to say about co-star Bette Davis while she lived but ... after Davis' death had nothing but nasty things to say. Always found that interesting. She was also the original Ado Annie in OKLAHOMA on Broadway although the actress who played the leading role, Laurey, Joan Roberts is still alive! RIP

He's frustrated, but not for good reason. Eastwood makes better films and has a better commercial track record. Why is he surprised?

That falls under the rubric of "do as I say, not as I do."

Kyle, films are on DVD! LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA is a great film. I remember the critic who wrote (was it David Denby?) "who would have thought that the finest Japanese film of the year would be made by Clint Eastwood?" I won't watch TCM when Spike Lee is on. He's a race-baiter and, even more, he goes out of his way to criticize and attack other filmmakers. Who needs that?

Of course, no one tops Jack Nicholson. 5 WINS and 19 NOMINEES. Jack Nicholson's Oscar-Winning Co-Stars: Helen Hunt, As Good As it Gets (1997) Anjelica Huston, Prizzi's Honor (1985) Shirley MacLaine, Terms of Endearment (1983) Maureen Stapleton, Reds (1981) Louise Fletcher, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Jack Nicholson's Oscar-Nominated Co-Stars: Mark Wahlberg, The Departed (2006) Meryl Streep, Ironweed (1987) Holly Hunter, Broadcast News (1987) Albert Brooks, Broadcast News (1987) Debra Winger, Terms of Endearment (1983) Diane Keaton, Reds (1981) Warren Beatty, Reds (1981) Faye Dunaway, Chinatown (1974) Diane Keaton, Something's Gotta Give (2003) Karen Black, Five Easy Pieces (1970) Elizabeth McGovern, Ragtime (1981) Kathy Bates, About Schmidt (2002) Brad Dourif, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Howard Rollins, Ragtime (1981) John Lithgow, Terms of Endearment (1981) William Hickey, Prizzi's Honor (1985) Greg Kinnear, As Good as it Gets (1997) Ann Margret, Tommy (1975) Ann Margret, Carnal Knowledge (1975)

I would argue that things would have gone in the other direction. He got lucky in those four films and going forward there very well might have been not a single other nomination for him or anyone else he worked with. It's all guesswork, though, since he died so young.

It's probably my least favorite of Hitchcock's American films along with FAMILY PLOT which I come close to hating and which I probably wouldn't ever see again. UNDER CAPRICORN and FAMILY PLOT, imho, are his worst American films but he's forgiven since he made more masterpieces than almost any other film director in history.

ROTFLMAO.

32"? Really? Can't remember the last time I had anything that small. I couldn't watch a film on a TV that small.

It reminds me of the mild controversy -- that lasted about 5 minutes -- of the Super Soap Opera couple of all time -- Luke and Laura on General Hospital. Their "romance" and reign as the most popular couple of all time on daytime TV began when he raped her. Ah, love.

He was also one of the true "nice guys" in Hollywood -- like James Stewart and Charlton Heston -- always a class act who was always positive, a help to others, just an all around great guy. A very sad day but he lived a long and happy life and died knowing how loved and respected he was. Godspeed to Ernest Borgnine, a truly American original. Rest in Peace.

Gosh, I'm not sure what would put me to sleep more ... an evening of beach movies or an evening of bad B movie 1950s horror flicks.

Which one? THE ARTIST or HUGO? I've seen both on my 55" LCD in my screening room and neither lost anything from the big screen. If anything, they gained since there were no smelly people or smelly food smells or fuzzy big screen and my stereo surround is better!

You're inferring something about my opinion that simply isn't there. I can't explain why you're doing that. Yes, it makes "perfect sense to me" that some people connected more to THE ARTIST and that's why they preferred it. How does that imply that I felt that way? Especially since I didn't. As for the rest of your post it follows along with the rest which is basically trying to infer from my posts what you think they say rather than what they actually say. Great films are great films. They may contain "messages" , they may not. Sometimes shear joy is greater than any message (say, SINGIN IN THE RAIN vs. RAIN MAN) and I never use that as a measurement with which to judge a film. So, Cheerio! Have a nice day ... and for good measure ... here's a smiley

Also, I usually find it a fairly lazy intellectual exercise that when trying to buck-up one's opinion about one film one finds it necessary to denigrate another. If one's opinion can't hold up to purely positive comments about the film one loves without resorting to negative comments about the film you don't think as worthy ... well, let's just say I find that that opinion has less worth. Cheerio!

Please re-read what I actually said. I didn't say that I felt that way. I said that "many" felt that way and that may explain why more people judged THE ARTIST the superior film. And you come very close to saying (and I quote "anyone who didn't get this ... ") that anyone who doesn't agree with you is wrong and stupid. I think that's a line that it is better not to cross. As I said, both are great films (did you miss that part?) and deserve to be seen forever.

I agree with you about the ending. It needed about 5-7 more minutes of exposition before they staged the musical number. But that's a minor flaw in a truly terrific film.

Well, I made no comment about whether they cared or about whether or not it started a trend. Actually, I'm happy when movies don't start trends. I merely said that it "showed" them how it could be. Whether they act on that or not is an entirely different question.

Puts me to sleep. Just way, way too overly manipulative for it to be moving to me. And least once I got older than 7 years old.