Good discussion here about Streep, A.O. Scott, and the eighties prestige picture:
WORST of the Best Picture Oscar Noms (Only The '80s Edition)
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
No interest in the first two, can't vote for any of the other three. (I've always intended to give Prizzi's Honor a second look...but still haven't 33 years later, so I guess it's not a priority.)
The two big films for me that year were Lost in America and My Life as a Dog. I like Sweet Dreams and After Hours, and To Live and Die in L.A., Jagged Edge, and even The Year of the Dragon are good genre films.
― clemenza, Friday, 27 July 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
Shoah, and after that Vagabond
― Dan S, Friday, 27 July 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
(saw these two recently, so they are in my mind)
― Dan S, Friday, 27 July 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
I noticed Shoah when I skimmed through Wikipedia's list of '85 films. I'm glad I took the time to watch it (four or five years ago, I think--at home, on DVD). Trying to find exactly the right words to explain why Lost in America and My Life as a Dog mean more to me would require finding exactly the right words.
― clemenza, Friday, 27 July 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
I remember My Life as a Dog meaning so much more to me when I saw it than any of these Oscar nominees, but it’s also very weird to be reminded that I haven’t seen any of these films in ~33 years
― Dan S, Saturday, 28 July 2018 00:04 (five years ago) link
also liked My Beautiful Laundrette, a memorable first introduction to Daniel Day-Lewis. Still haven't seen Taipei Story and The Time to Live and the Time to Die
― Dan S, Saturday, 28 July 2018 00:36 (five years ago) link
Prizzi's is one of the funniest films of the '80s
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 28 July 2018 01:57 (five years ago) link
will have to see it again. the only thing I remember about that film is the performance of Anjelica Huston
― Dan S, Saturday, 28 July 2018 02:12 (five years ago) link
Arm0nd on TCP: https://www.out.com/armond-white/2015/12/15/color-purple-hollywoods-greatest-gay-film-turns-30
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 16:22 (five years ago) link
Walker conjugated the term “lavender” from the days of the Mattachine Society when it was code for gay passion as “different” from conventional romantic hues—she moved across the spectrum of affection (now symbolized in the pride flag) from same-sex attraction, opposite-sex attraction, both sex attraction. Lavender-to-Purple charts Celie’s sexual experience throughout her hardship. (“I might be black, a woman, I might even be ugly. But I’m here!”) Plus, Walker and Spielberg explicitly link “purple” to an appreciation of life and God’s wonders. “I think it pisses God off when you don’t know notice the color purple!” says blues songstress and Celie’s lover, Shug Avery.
Perhaps this normalization of the humane in spiritual terms is what “intellectuals” object to as “overripe.” It pisses some people off when gayness is seen as something other/more than a social principle or represented in terms that don’t comply with secular convention—or when idealized by figures who don’t come from society’s dominant class.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is better than any of these.
― Eliza D., Tuesday, 31 July 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 6 August 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
Haha, what?
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link
wtf
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 13:54 (five years ago) link
at least the bottom 2 are correct
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link