Sometimes the best gets better.
Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards one film the prestigious golden Oscar for Best Picture. For months, anticipation rises as everyone debates their predictions for who will be the big winner of Hollywood’s Biggest Night. Some winners are expected, some are shocks. Some, like the pure bedlam between Moonlight and La La Land, are unforgettable.
Lawrence of Arabia You may have caught the reference to this historical epic earlier, but it bears repeating because it’s not every day you follow up The Bridge Over the River Kwai with Lawrence of Arabia. Two monumentally powerful war films, their impact was so earth-shaking that many people forget David Lean spent the first half of his career directing romances and Charles Dickens adaptations. As for Lawrence of Arabia, it’s the type of epic film that just doesn’t get made anymore.
Broadcast News After James L. Brooks’s directorial debut Terms of Endearment won Best Picture, the pressure was on for him to prove his worth in his sophomore feature. Only five others had won Best Picture for their first film, so expectations were high. And to say Brooks blew those expectations out of the water would be a severe understatement. Broadcast News is better than his first film in almost every way.
Philadelphia After terrifying audiences with the blood-curdling psychological thriller, The Silence of the Lambs, Jonathan Demme decided to return to his more humanistic sensibilities and take on the AIDS epidemic. We meet Andrew Beckett as he is being congratulated for his great work at a prestigious Philadelphia law firm. When one of his partners notices a lesion on his face, Beckett attributes it to a racquetball injury, but quickly becomes sick with AIDS.
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