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…

Film #26 of Project 30

”After all, tomorrow is another day.”

Stories set in war time always offer great drama and character development, passing of time and the changes it brings to the moral values of society and individuals provides writers and film makers with a great chance to study some of the basic principles of life: unfaltering love affected by the tumultuous nature of events, hope for a better future, sacrifice, dismay, misfortune and regret and the most heart-warming of all, determination to bounce back and recreate the glory and power of the past despite all the difficulties ahead.

It is that thematic richness of the life story of Scarlett O'Hara that has enabled Gone with the Wind to…

I find it difficult to objectively watch films so deeply engrained in popular culture because my accumulated knowledge of the film is a burden to the viewing experience. I already knew Gable's classic line "frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." I already watched Hattie McDaniel's Oscar speech and the tension in the room when she walked from the colored section to the stage. Seeing these iconic images come to life was not as breathtaking because I already had an idea of what it would be like. With that being said, the high-contrast stylized cinematography, sweeping musical score, and nearly 4 hour runtime was nothing short of astounding. Each character was feisty, dynamic, and as fully developed as 1930's…

Gone with the Wind has been on the back foot with me for decades, and that’s unrelated to the qualities of the film itself. It just (totally illogically, but hey, it’s me!) rankled that GWTW always topped Star Wars as the highest grossing film adjusted for inflation. But as the decades past I grew up (somewhat) and realised that (a) it doesn’t matter if the films I love the most don’t make the most money, and (b) Star Wars is far more enduring timeless than GWTW and – cinema tickets aside – is surely by now the most watched film in history, and perhaps destined to be for my lifetime, and maybe even my sons. So, I forgiven GWTW for…

A 6 hour flight seemed the right opportunity to finally watch this movie. It was now or never.
I must say that I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. Vivien Leigh was awesome and her character was truly engaging. And, well, Clark Gable is still Clark Gable.
However, the last hour and a half felt really silly for some reason. It's like the movie leaves the coherent and engaging flow it was going through in the first 150 minutes and then the final 90 minutes felt like a series of vignettes where every time there was a problem something worse and worse and worse was about to happen. There are much greater jumps in time that kept the movie a…