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Best Picture This: The 1963 Academy Awards: To Kill A Mockingbird

Posted on June 7, 2024June 7, 2024by Jon Romeo
Atticus Finch talks to Scout
To Kill A Mockingbird It's the 1963 Academy Awards. Kennedy is still in the White House. Dallas is still six months in the future. In August, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr delivers h…
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Best Picture This: The 1963 Academy Awards- Meredith Willson’s The Music Man

Posted on May 31, 2024by Jon Romeo
The opening title card for The Music Man.
Meredith Willson's The Music Man Make sure your trombones and French horns are polished. Empty those spit valves. Get those shoes shined to mirrors and make sure your uniforms are…
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Best Picture This: The 1963 Academy Awards- The Longest Day

Posted on May 29, 2024by Jon Romeo
Opening card for The Longest Day.
The Longest Day It's that time again. We're rolling back time and heading to the 1963 Academy Awards to take a look at the Best Picture nominations from 1962. The nominees for Bes…
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A Best Picture This Feature Presentation: The 1963 Academy Awards

Posted on May 27, 2024by Jon Romeo
sign for the 1963 Academy Awards
The red carpet has been rolled out. The cameras' bulbs are popping left and right almost blinding everyone lined up to see the stars. Look! It's Old Blues himself Frank Sinatra. Th…
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A Best Picture This Feature Presentation: 1972 Movie Round Up

Posted on April 21, 2024by Jon Romeo
When people talk about great years for movies if they don't mention 1972 run, run fast and far. 1972 was a banner year for cinema. The New Hollywood esthetic was gathering steam. W…
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Best Picture This: The 1973 Academy Awards- Deliverance

Posted on April 10, 2024by Jon Romeo
Banjo kid duels banjos with Drew in Deliverance
DELIVERANCE With Deliverance we've reached both the end of the Best Picture nominees of the 1973 Academy Awards and our "first year" with Best Picture This. As a reminder, the pre…
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Best Picture This: The 1973 Academy Awards- The Godfather

Posted on March 30, 2024by Jon Romeo
The Godfather opening title card.
The Godfather It's 1972, but it feels more like the late Forties. Gravy is simmering on the stove. Garlic and gunpowder linger in the air. Luca Brasi is sleeping with the fishes a…
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1972: The Year of Robert Redford

Posted on March 26, 2024by Jon Romeo
Robert Redford leans back in 1972
Robert Redford In 1972, Robert Redford starred in three movies. One was a heist movie, the other a political comedy of sorts, and the third was a movie that fits comfortable betwe…
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Best Picture This: The 1973 Academy Awards- Cabaret

Posted on March 8, 2024by Jon Romeo
Liza Minnelli sings and dances in Cabaret
Are you ready for some high steps, goose steps, smoke filled rooms, a dancing gorilla, and a very creepy Joel Grey? Then join us back at the 1973 Academy Awards when the Best Pictu…
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Best Picture This: The 1973 Academy Awards- The Emigrants

Posted on February 26, 2024by Jon Romeo
Karl and Kristina embrace in The Emigrants
It's 1972, we're traveling by ox drawn cart, ship, horse driven wagon, a Mississippi steamboat, and on foot. Where are we headed? Where are we bound? The 1973 Academy Awards where …
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