Exceptionally well crafted and laden with characters so fleshed out I half expected them to step out from the big screen into my living room at any minute!

The cinematography and iconic shots such as Rhett Butler standing at the foot of the grand staircase gazing up at Scarlet O'Hara with a come hither look that could melt even the coldest of hearts and cause all the ladies to sigh and go weak in the knees!

Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) met is match when he crossed paths with Scarlett O'Hara ( Vivien Leigh)! Their tale of love, passion and heartache will go down in the annals of history as one of the greatest romances in cinematic history!

The film is…

**Part of the Best Picture**

Few films, if any, accomplish technical excellence, and it’s not hard to see why. Many films, even good ones, have some flaws that keep them from perfection. So it really amazes me that a film like Gone with the Wind with the production history it had managed to be just so damn perfect. There isn’t a thing wrong with it. It is a master class lesson in nearly everything that makes up cinema, and what amazes me even more is how the sheer epic nature of the film holds up even today.

Until this watch, I had not seen Gone with The Wind since I was very young, and my grandmother took me to see…

Okay, I know it's a cliché to consider this among the greatest 1930s movies made, but it's nearly impossible not to be impressed with David O. Selznick pulling off a monster epic of such proportions as Gone with the Wind (1939)!

Visually this was sensational! Such style in every frame. Poetic, classy, haunting and with such color. Those red nights are magical. A masterful job capturing the beauty of the south.

Clark Gable is Rhett! No more needed to be said. A career high, unable to top! Vivien Leigh gets the big part and grabs the chance with both arms and more. An tremendous display rarely ever seen! Clicks perfectly and awards her the Oscar! As her opposite Olivia de…

Scavenger Hunt #21: December 2016

1 A Film Nominated for Best Picture in 1939

Frankly, my dear, I can't fucking believe I wasted almost 4 hours of my life watching pro-Confederacy revisionist propaganda. Nor can I believe that, even during the height of Segregation, it was lauded by critics and was nominated for and won an unprecedented number of Academy Awards. Americans are so forgiving of white supremacy when it comes from within our own borders, it just makes me want to vomit.

And like, okay, if this were a technically brilliant film with a fantastic script and a director and cast that knocked it out of the park but also super racist and manipulative, this would be an entirely…

Drama | History | Romance

Scarlett: Rhett, don't. I shall faint.
Rhett Butler: I want you to faint. This is what you were meant for. None of the fools you've ever know have kissed you like this, have they? Your Charles, or your Frank, or your stupid Ashley.

A perfect epic movie with a great story and a superb playing cast, besides the story and the acting. The music, the sets, the costumes, the cinematography and of course the direction. It is all great. It was made in 1939 and over 80 years later [2019] it still is a very impressive movie.

if you want to see something moving and something that is not getting old, though almost 80! do…

Victor Fleming's Olympia: an evil technical marvel.

It's not coy about it, either. The opening titles announce that this is misty-eyed nostalgia for slavery. It's not that it likes the chivalric pretensions of the slave-holding class or the luxury and frivolity of their lives while trying to ignore the labor that made the lifestyle possible. It's slavery: "Here in this pretty world Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave..."

The movie opens on fields of slaves picking cotton--work that suddenly becomes a lot less picturesque when Scarlett O'Hara has to go out and do it herself after the Union rolls through. Even after…

I saw Gone with the Wind today in theaters thanks to a flashback cinema feature at a local movie theater. I'm very grateful for the opportunity to see this epic on the big screen, I'd seen this movie once before but nothing really prepared me for seeing it in a theater. The level of craftsmanship is on full display pretty much from the start, amazing visuals and not a scene or moment is out of place. Truly stunning.

The racial politics may be uncomfortable (mostly in Part 2), but the story of Gone with the Wind doesn't concern itself with that aspect of the South or the Civil War beyond just using it as a backdrop. Despite being wowed by…