Lists

  • Oscar Nominated Films List

    Oscar Nominated Films
    Captains Courageous (1937) Dir: Victor Fleming (Won: Actor; Nominated: Editing, Film, Writing)
    The Life of Emile Zola (1937) Dir: William Dieterle (Won: Supporting Actor, Film, Screenplay; Nominated: Actor, Art direction, Music, Director)
    Babes in Arms (1939) Dir: Busby Berkeley (Nominated: Actor, Music)
    Kings Row (1942) Dir: Sam Wood (Nominated: Cinematography, Directing, Film)
    Gervaise (1956) Dir: Rene Clement
    Bus Stop (1956) Dir: Joshua Logan (Nominated: Supporting Actor)
    Black Orpheus (1959) Dir: Marcel Camus (Won: Best Foreign Language)
    One-Eyed Jacks (1961) Dir: Marlon Brando (Nominated: Cinematography)
    Oliver! (1967) Dir: Carol Reed (Won: Film, Sound, Music, Directing, Art Direction; Nominated: Actor, Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Costume, Editing, Writing)
    Rachel, Rachel (1968) Dir: Paul Newman (Nominated: Actress, Supporting Actress, Film, Writing)
    War and Peace (1968) Dir: Sergei Bondarchuk (Won: Foreign Language; Nominated: Art Direction)
    Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) Dir: Herbert Ross (Nominated: Actor, Music)
    Bound for Glory (1976) Dir: Hal Ashby (Won: Music, Cinematography. Nominated: Costume, Editing, Film)
    Dodsworth (1936) Dir: William Wyler (Won: Art Direction. Nominated: Picture, Leading Actor, Supporting Actress, Director, Screenplay, Sound)
    Seven Beauties (1975) Dir: Lina Wermuller. (Nominated: Actor, Director, Screenplay, Foreign Language Film)

  • Her Fresh Picks: 2017 Acclaimed Movies

    You can watch these movies along with Angela and Bryan, and see if you agree or disagree. These are 2017 movies that have been critically acclaimed and we missed reviewing when they first played in theaters. All are available on some sort of streaming service (Amazon, Hulu or Netflix) or on Netflix DVD.

    Get Out. Director: Keegan Peele
    I Don’t Feel At Home in this World Anymore. Director: Macon Blair
    The Girl With All the Gifts. Director: Colm McCarthy
    A Monster Calls. Director: J.A. Bayona
    Raw. Director: Julia Ducournau
    All this Panic. Director: Jenny Gage
    I Called Him Morgan. Director: Kasper Collins
    Beatriz at Dinner. Director: Miguel Arteta
    The Big Sick. Director: Michael Showalter
    The Bad Batch. Director: Ana Lilly Amirpour

  • His Distinguished Classics: Critically Acclaimed Films from the Past (List Part 3)

    Strike (1925) Dir: Sergei Eisenstein
    The Asphalt Jungle (1950) Dir: John Huston
    Jean Renoir: The Golden Coach (1954) Dir: Jean Renoir
    Up the Down Staircase (1967) Dir: Robert Mulligan
    The Swimmer (1968) Dir: Frank Perry
    The Twelve Chairs (1970) Dir: Mel Brooks
    Parade (1974) Dir: Jacques Tati
    Stalker (1979) Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky

  • Best Films of 2016


    Angela’s Top 10
    1. Moonlight. Director: Barry Jenkins
    2. Manchester by the Sea. Director: Kenneth Lonergan
    3. Dheepan. Director: Jacques Audiard
    4. The Handmaiden. Director: Park Chan-wook
    5. Embrace of the Serpent. Director: Ciro Guerra
    6. Our Little Sister. Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
    7. I Am Not Your Negro. Director: Raul Peck
    8. 20th Century Women. Director: Mike Mills
    9. The Lobster. Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
    10. Hell or High Water. Director: David Mackenzie
    Honorable Mentions: The Witch, Demon, Loving, Toni Erdmann, The Witness

    Bryan’s Top 10
    1. Manchester by the Sea. Director: Kenneth Lonergan
    2. Hell or High Water. Director: David Mackenzie
    3. Moonlight. Director: Barry Jenkins
    4. The Handmaiden. Director: Park Chan-wook
    5. Nocturnal Animals. Director: Tom Ford
    6. The Birth of a Nation. Director: Nate Parker
    7. 20th Century Women. Director: Mike Mills
    8. The Witness. Director: James D. Solomon
    9. Dheepan. Director: Jacques Audiard
    10. The Eagle Huntress. Director: Otto Bell
    Honorable Mentions: The Jungle Book, The Witch, The Lobster, The Family Fang, Moana, Little Men, Loving, Green Room, The Edge of Seventeen

  • His Distinguished Classics: Critically Acclaimed Films from the Past (List Part 2)

    You can watch these movies along with Angela and Bryan, and see if you agree or disagree. These are movies that have been critically acclaimed. All are available on some sort of streaming service (Amazon, Hulu or Netflix) or on Netflix DVD.

    Big City: Mahanagar (1963) Dir: Satjajit Ray
    Brothel No. 8 (1974) Dir: Kei Kumai
    Auto Focus (2002) Dir: Paul Schrader
    Stray Dog (1949) Dir: Kurosawa
    The Lower Depths (1936) Dir: Jean Renoir
    Bedazzled (1967) Dir: Stanley Donen
    Ride the High Country (1962) Dir: Sam Peckinpah
    Man of the West (1958) Dir: Anthony Mann
    Faust (1926) Dir: FW Murnau
    Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) Dir: John Huston

  • Streaming 6: June 2016 Picks

    Angela’s June 2016 Picks:
    Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015)
    World of Tomorrow (2015)
    About Elly (2015)

    Bryan’s June 2016 Picks:
    Bone Tomahawk (2015)
    We are Still Here (2015)
    Kung Fury (2015)

    Streaming Services:
    https://www.netflix.com
    https://play.google.com/store/movies

    https://www.apple.com/itunes/charts/movies/

  • Her Fresh Picks: 2016 Acclaimed Movies

    You can watch these movies along with Angela and Bryan, and see if you agree or disagree. These are 2016 movies that have been critically acclaimed and we missed reviewing when they first played in theaters. All are available on some sort of streaming service (Amazon, Hulu or Netflix) or on Netflix DVD.

    The Witch
    Zootopia
    April and the Extraordinary World (2016
    Embrace of the Serpent (2016)
    The Fits (2016)
    De Palma (2016)
    13th (2016)