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Happy Birthday tomorrow, Rachel and Marisa
Happy Birthday tomorrow, Rachel and Marisa
Bucket List Update
Academy Award Nominated Movies
1977 Julia
starring: Jane Fonda, Vanessa
Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximillian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Meryl Streep
plot – Lillian
Helman smuggles funds into Nazi Germany.
This was a really good movie. I cannot imagine smuggling anything
into anywhere even for my best friend. Yikes! Extremely well acted and I literally didn’t move until the
entire movie was over.
1978 An
Unmarried Woman
starring: Jill Clayburgh, Alan
Bates, Michael Murphy, Cliff Gorman
plot – A rich woman’s
husband has left her for someone younger.
She struggles to make a new life for herself.
This was a yet another typical 70’s movie. Clayburgh’s character
has to make a huge adjust in her life ad learn to cope. It was okay.
1978 Midnight
Express
starring: Brad Davis, Irene
Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli,
Randy Quaid, John Hurt
plot – The story of an
American young man who gets caught
in Turkey smuggling hashish out of the country.
He suffers in prison but tries to stay alive.
This was the story of a foolish young man whose bad choices had major
consequences. At times this movie was hard to watch, but I had to know what he
went through to truly understand how bad life could be in prison.
1979 All
That Jazz
starring: Roy Scheider,
Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking, Cliff Gorman, Ben Vereen
plot – The life story of
Bob Fosse. He pushed himself endlessly
and suffered for his bad choices.
I loved the dancing, but the cigarette constantly hanging out of
his mouth really bothered me, but I have no idea why. It is obvious why this
was a big success in the 70’s. It did lose the Oscar to Kramer versus Kramer.
1979 Apocalypse
Now
starring: Marlon Brando,
Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Fredric Forrest,
Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Harrison Ford, Dennis Hopper, Albert Hall
plot – Set during the
Vietnam War, Capt. Willard is sent to
Cambodia
to kill a colonel who thinks he is the God
of his tribe.
This was an interesting movie. Martin Sheen was so young and at
times I had to remind myself that it was Martin and not his look alike son,
Charlie. A great movie.
1980 Tess
starring: John Collins, Tony
Church, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth
plot – Two men fall for a
poor peasant girl.
This was a really SLOW movie. It was okay, I guess.
1981 Atlantic
City
starring: Burt Lancaster,
Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Michael Piccoli, Robert Goulet, Hollis McLaren
plot – The story of love,
money, drugs, and danger in Atlantic
City between a gangster and a woman who
left her pot dealer husband.
This was a good movie. Burt Lancaster was wonderful as the aged
gangster. Susan Sarandon was also wonderful.
1983 Terms
of Endearment
starring: Shirley Maclaine,
Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny Devito, Jeff Dangers, John Lithgow, Lisa Hart
Carroll
plot – The story of Mom
(Aurora) and daughter (Emma). The
two woman have a strong bond, but drive each
other crazy. A typical mother-daughter strained
relationship.
This was a really good movie. It was a sad one however.
1984 Amadeus
starring: F. Murray Abraham,
Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice, Simon Callow
plot – The life story of
Mozart as told by his peers and a rival.
This was a LONG boring movie. The story was interesting because I
didn’t know a lot about him, but I would have liked to have learned it MUCH
FASTER.
1981 Raiders
of the Lost Ark
starring: Harrison Ford, Karen
Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies
plot – Indiana
Jones is an adventurer and archaeologist. He is
sent by the U.S. to find the Ark of the Covenant
before the German Nazis find it first.
At times I thought I remembered this movie, but as it went on I
realized that I only saw snippets of it.
I really enjoyed this movie. Harrison Ford is wonderful, and I really
stayed interested the entire time.
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