Next Two "Best Shot" Episodes: Zootopia + Cinematography of '77
Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 3:31PM Watch the movies. Pick a shot. join us! You can see all the past episodes here.
Tuesday Evening, July 19th
ZOOTOPIA (2016, Howard, Moore, Bush. 108 minutes)
It's the second biggest global hit of the year and now that it's available for home viewing let's have a second look at this delightful animated comedy about a utopia threatened when predators go wild again.
BEST SHOT SPECIAL: Mon Jul 24- Fri Jul 29th
Oscar Battles: Best Cinematography 1977
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS Vilmos Zsigmond
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM Fred J Koenekamp
JULIA Douglas Slocombe
LOOKING FOR MR GOODBAR William A Fraker
TURNING POINT Robert Surtees
Choose one or more of Oscar's 1977 Cinematography nominees for your "Best Shot" pleasure. We'll reajudicate the cinematography Oscar battle of 1977 over the final week of July. If this sounds crazy, please note that 1977 happens to be our "Year of the Month" and four of those five titles were also nominated for Best Supporting Actress so we'll be watching them anyway for the Smackdown so this is time management...albeit of an ambitious kind. That week at the blog we'll post our favorite image from each of those movies one a day along with links to whichever you've discussed at your blog, tumblr, twitter, or facebook.
Reader Comments (28)
Don't Look Now is in the picture grid but not the poll????
Never participated because I never screen capped anything before. Not sure if I have the capabilities.
I can suggest movies which live and die off their visuals: Dune (1984), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Beloved (1998) -- I feel like I'm missing other pure visual delight titles. Wait, maybe I'm thinking of some Oliver Stone movies from the 90's. But his movies actually work on a dramatic level for me. Though I will throw in U-Turn (1997) as another suggestion.
Tim -- it is in the poll. i see it at least.
The vote is a fabulous idea, but choosing is painful! A tough choice with such fun options!
I participated once and really enjoyed it, but since then I keep forgetting until I see the results have been posted. I'll try and participate more, especially with CLOSE ENCOUNTERS coming up.
The idea of a series of weekly posts sounds exhausting, but interesting. That said, I just checked, and both Looking for Mr. Goodbar and The Turning Point aren't available for renting on either I-tunes or Amazon. Is there any other way to rent the movies without getting a Netflix account?
Working Girl is winning. We love to tease you
Allilson -- looking for mr goodbar is on YouTube. I dont know how to get Turning POint without Netflix.
Off Topic
Someone cobbled together an alternate list of Best Actress winners that will drive you insane on the Academy denying most of these women statuettes for these performances.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhKpVtz80Sg#t=478.777104
DON'T LOOK NOW PLEASE! Such an underrated horror masterpiece with the greatest sex scene ever, hell yeah baby.
Catgirl? Really? *lol*
I voted Gentlemen prefer Blonde. That legendary "Diamonds are a Girl's best friend" is so worth it.
Why also not Batman (1989) and Batman Returns??? Please? PLEASE????
I'm mildly frustrated to see that such a visually gorgeous movie like The Painted Veil is losing in the polls. I was able to do the last few best shots because I got too busy to devote the time to watching these movies and write about them unfortunately. Work and personal life got in the way.
Sonja: 1. For your last point, they did a Batman mega special a couple years back for the 75th anniversary and 2. Eh, I think looking at bad movies for this is a fun idea, because even the bad stuff adds to the discourse.
FYI, The Turning Point expires on Netflix Instant at the end of June, so if anyone is interested in watching it for Best Shot or the Smackdown, they should do so ASAP. Netflix does not have it available for rental.
I swear I will be back in August!
https://ifwp.wordpress.com/2016/06/27/to-catch-a-thief-hit-me-with-your-best-shot/
I'll try posting here and on a more recent article, and hopefully you'll see this!
Suzanne -- YIKES. Thank you. I didn't know that.
Hope this is the right place to post this!
http://sciencedufantom.blogspot.com/2016/06/hit-me-with-your-best-shot-to-catch.html
Working Girl is an opportunity to discuss Sigourney Weaver duh!
Watching Mr. Goodbar on YouTube a couple weeks ago and the ending is still haunting me.
I'll be back. :)
I remember reading an interesting essay by Roger Ebert comparing Working Girl to The Graduate, both directed by Mike Nichols. His point IIRC was noting that the latter was cynical about capitalism but the former very much embraced it, and that that reflected the times. So it'll be interesting to watch this 1988 business film in 2016.
Ugh, Pfeiffer and Streep were supposed to star in Working Girl. My heart aches.
Weaver was fantastic though...
LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR is on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) on cable on Thursday, July 14th at 11:15 pm (CST).
Check local listings.
I'm planning on being a first time participant this week. Zootopia is my current obsession.
Man everything but Close Encounters sounds awful...
I'm not sure where to post it, but... here.
https://conmanatthemovies.com/2016/07/20/hit-me-with-your-best-shot-zootopia/
Rachel - you don't have to do all of them ;)
Con-Man - thanks for participating