Horribly dated Best Picture Oscar winner, everybody overacts terribly appearing to think they're onstage rather than on camera. Woeful effects.
Attempts to be an historical epic but fails miserably.
Guess it must have seemed pretty great in its day.
Some of the films this beat for Best Picture include: Little Women, A Farewell to Arms and The Private Lives of Henry VIII
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Like A Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres 2021
Really solid documentary about the life and career of Rolling Stone magazine's legendary music writer Ben Fong-Torres.
The man himself is interviewed extensively and clips of these modern chats are interspersed throughout the film revealing him to be a warm, modest, affable and caring person.
There is also some voice over to give us context of the historical clips, of which there are many, and they locate the man in his music journalism days and within his Chinese culture.
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A Hidden Life 2019
As others are stating, this has Malick's most cohesive narrative since Badlands and even parts of The Thin Red Line.
However, it still exhibits at least some of the dream-like voice-over, jump cuts, gorgeous cinematography and music cues of much of his post The New World work.
The plot itself is a real heartbreaker, intense, anger-inducing and beautifully acted by a superb and mostly unknown cast.
Call me a convert all over again because this is pure gold cinema at its finest and most lyrical. -
