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Mayor
Could we list the 100 greatest movies of all time, and leave off the list THE WIZARD OF OZ ? *
I'll suspend on mentioning such movies as The Wizard of Oz, and Citizen Cain, not purely based upon cinematic merit, but instead because it's likely most that would have been interested would already have seen them.
I've got two personal favorites, each very different, but both about men of principle.
The first is Robert Bolt's / Paul Scofield's A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS. Beware. There's more than one movie with this title. But the Scofield version won 6 Academy Awards in 1966 including Best Picture.
Another with less critical acclaim is FIRST BLOOD, the first Stallone "Rambo" movie, and in my opinion by far the best.
But these two movies contrast to show very different styles of defending principle.
* Note: I gather The Wizard of Oz did not win the Oscar for best picture. That's because The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind were released the same year. And Gone with the Wind won best picture.
But The Wizard of Oz is still a remarkable movie, entertaining for adults & children alike.
"There never will be talking pictures." D.W. Griffith
Of all the arts, the cinema is the most important. Vladimir Ilich "Nikolai" Lenin 1870-1924
"There are good books, there are superior books, and there are great books.
Good books inform you. Superior books in addition to informing you, entertain you. ... A great book is a book that changes you." Oprah
I'll suspend on mentioning such movies as The Wizard of Oz, and Citizen Cain, not purely based upon cinematic merit, but instead because it's likely most that would have been interested would already have seen them.
I've got two personal favorites, each very different, but both about men of principle.
The first is Robert Bolt's / Paul Scofield's A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS. Beware. There's more than one movie with this title. But the Scofield version won 6 Academy Awards in 1966 including Best Picture.
Another with less critical acclaim is FIRST BLOOD, the first Stallone "Rambo" movie, and in my opinion by far the best.
But these two movies contrast to show very different styles of defending principle.
* Note: I gather The Wizard of Oz did not win the Oscar for best picture. That's because The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind were released the same year. And Gone with the Wind won best picture.
But The Wizard of Oz is still a remarkable movie, entertaining for adults & children alike.
"There never will be talking pictures." D.W. Griffith
Of all the arts, the cinema is the most important. Vladimir Ilich "Nikolai" Lenin 1870-1924
"There are good books, there are superior books, and there are great books.
Good books inform you. Superior books in addition to informing you, entertain you. ... A great book is a book that changes you." Oprah