Alex Long

Best Picture winners watch, I’m assuming? Only because I did the same thing last year, and felt similarly! Especially after Cimarron and The Great Ziegfeld

I’ve seen a few physical media collectors online say they are only collecting 4k, which eliminates a ton of Old Hollywood movies that barely have a Blu-ray, if that.

I don’t begrudge the former, just wish it didn’t have to crowd out the latter.

Unpopular take, perhaps, but the boutique physical media market (minus Criterion and to a lesser extent Kino) is littered with 1970-2000 genre movies, while so many forgotten classics pre-1970 languish, I just wish there were more space allowed for them to be celebrated by these labels.

Screenshot from ALICE ADAMS (1935), with Katherine Hepburn’s mom telling her: “Your father has invented a secret formula for making the best glue in the world”

I have to admit, I did not see this one coming

It’s March, and that means it’s time for people to post their “hot” takes/rage bait about how X movie/performance is actually NOT good (seeing it for one movie in particular, but there will be others, it is the natural way of the internet)

A bold move according to some corners of the fandom! But I also went with one of my all time favorite directors

One thing I'll say about Marty: though many viewers associate him with movies about the mob, if you look a little more closely at his filmography, you'll actually find that it's incredibly varied, containing not just movies like Goodfellas and Casino but also Kundun, and even The Age of Innocence.

Happy birthday!!

I think this is putting Hawks in a box, he clearly was good at directing in more genres than crime/drama, he had comedy directing chops too!

It was a favorite of mine as a kid, but I just watched Ball of Fire, and it’s head and shoulders above Sergeant York, and from the same year! There’s even a reference to Sergeant York in Ball of Fire!

Caved in and started watching Heated Rivalry.

Still mainlining BP nominees from the 1930s, and I’m not hating it at all! Some real gems, some that definitely would have made better winners than the actual winners

They’re not as inaccessible as you might think, via streaming and library DVDs! Currently watching THE FRONT PAGE (1931) on Kanopy (but it’s also on Tubi). This year is the most inaccessible, only All Quiet on the Western Front (the winner, and a favorite!) and this movie

Letterboxd last four feat. THE LOVE PARADE (1929), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), The Divorcee (1930), and Jezebel (1938)

Afraid to post this because it’s an ambitious goal, but I have a goal of seeing over 50% of BP nominees from each year (3/5 in 5 movie fields, 6/10 in 10), and I’m not all that far off. Have decided to try to knock out the 30s and maybe 40s before this year’s Oscar’s!

HOLY COW THIS MOVIE JUST MADE A CLEAR REFERENCE TO THE OTHER HOWARD HAWKS/GARY COOPER COLLABORATION OF 1941: SERGEANT YORK!!

S.Z. Sakall in BALL OF FIRE (1941), saying “Saint Valentine’s Day!” With Gary Cooper standing next to him

How did it take me this long to watch a screwball comedy with Gary Cooper as a nerdy linguist?!

Been in a Weird mood lately

And I still like Frankenstein! It was a great experience in the theater, and I liked seeing something that hewed closer to the novel, even if it wasn’t a perfect adaptation.

Idk, man, I like movies, and I liked all the Best Picture-nominated movies. Definitely much to discuss around each, but I don’t love the zero-sum game discussions where X movie isn’t good because it’s not my favorite one.

This is the core of good television or cinema, especially Dad Cinema (film pére), explain nothing but make sure everyone knows how important it is

Happy birthday!!

I don’t watch football much anymore, but man watching that Super Bowl made me remember 2 things that made for a happy experience:

1) I LOVE watching dominant defensive performances
2) I still hate the Patriots

Now I desperately want a “Walk Hard”-style parody of Song Sung Blue with Andy Samberg and Elle Fanning

I want to believe, but it does like like Fincher doing Tarantino instead of being Fincher

Screenshot of the Movies page on Hulu, showing Ella McCay (2025) number 1 on February 7th

So many people watching Ella McCay in the state they were born in!

So good!

This is Duolingo-style harassment

Apparently Sony Pictures won’t let Netflix put their movies on the ads plan (until next year), which excludes some great movies!