I can add two more Best Picture winners to my credit

[fantine33]

Guess nobody wants to play today.

FTR the six Best Picture (or equivalent) winners I haven't seen are

The Broadway Melody of 1929
Cavalcade
The Great Ziegfeld
The Life of Emile Zola
Gentleman's Agreement, and
Tom Jones (at least, not all the way through...)

Amazingly, I've seen three of the six that KT hasn't. That's amazing only because I've seen about 1 percent of all the movies KT has watched.

Yeah, what Sliver said. Ha!

I personally like Broadway Melody of 1929, but it's my least favourite of the four (?) (it's also the one without Eleanor Powell, which might have something to do with it).

[fantine33]

Over the weekend, I watched "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Silence of the Lambs" for the very first time.

I thoroughly enjoyed both of them.

Spoiler

So now you're hot shit!

Nobody's going to know what I mean by that, so don't bother looking under the spoiler. Except for maybe Kitty Sandwich. Ha!

[silverscreenselect]

Now that KT brought it up, I added up my total, which for the early years is admittedly somewhat sketchy. It's 54, including everything from the 1970's forward.

There's a few that I have on DVD like The Apartment, How Green Was My Valley and Sunrise, that I just haven't gotten around to watching yet I have far too much of a taste in trashy films to make a regimen out of watching the classics.

[KillerTomato]

Guess nobody wants to play today.

FTR the six Best Picture (or equivalent) winners I haven't seen are

Spoiler

The Broadway Melody of 1929
Cavalcade
The Great Ziegfeld
The Life of Emile Zola
Gentleman's Agreement, and
Tom Jones (at least, not all the way through...)

A couple of these are in my Netflix queue, though...

This is funny, I've seen hardly any Best Picture Winners (because The Greatest Show on Earth RULZ!!!11), but I've seen 3.7 of the ones you haven't. (Parts of Emile Zola and Tom Jones count as the .7).

I'm surprised you haven't seenThe Great Ziegfeld, as I thought you were a big Myrna Loy fan.

I AM a Myrna Loy fan (just like CW Moss...can you tell based on that comment that I just watched "Bonnie and Clyde" the other day?). I just didn't realize she was in that! Of course, my all-time favorite Myrna Loy movie is "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House"...if only for the "Blue, red, white, yellow, green" decorating scene. Yeah, yeah, there's "The Thin Man" and "Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer" and "The Best Years of Our Lives"....but to me, she'll forever be Muriel Blandings. Something about her and Cary Grant's chemistry in that movie (which was almost strong in "Bobby Soxer") that just clicked with me.

And SSS, you must watch "Sunrise" at least once. FW Murnau did stuff in that movie that was SO revolutionary, and paved the way for so many other movies in terms of special effects. It's a truly amazing movie for its time.

As for "The Apartment", it's one of my perennial Top 10 entries. But Jack Lemmon is my all-time favorite actor and Billy Wilder my all-time favorite director, so I may be biased......nah, it's just that good.

[silverscreenselect]

While we're discussing such matters, just a reminder that next Tuesday June 17 on CBS is the next AFI Special, where they will vote on ten different top ten lists.

They will pick the top ten films in each of these categories:

Animated
Romantic Comedy
Western
Sports
Mystery
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Gangster
Courtroom Drama
Epic

Yes, there is overlap in these categories, and I'm sure it will lead to some discussion here. And it will lead to Mrs. SSS deciding on some more films she wants to see from my collection.