Movie of the Year Poll (1 Viewer)

[BLReed]

.........the purpose of starting the thread/poll was to stimulate a movie discussion.

Oh, kind of like the discussion in the specific original movie threads.

 

[jazzeum]

Overall, I'm not that big a fan of musicals although My Fair Lady is one of my favorite movies. I also love Guys and Dolls and West Side Story.

Was never a huge fan of Sound of Music but this without a doubt is the best version of Do Re Mi.

http://youtu.be/WkBepgH00GM

Still great five years after it was made.

 

[jazzeum]

Forgot to mention that for me the most influential of all movies on the list was The Budapest Hotel.

Why? This led me to start reading the works of Stefan Zweig, who is starting to be rediscovered after all these years. I'm currently reading his memoirs, The World of a Yesterday.

As his works in paperback have been re-published by The New York Review of Books Classics, this led me to explore their catalogue -- which is tremendous -- and I have recently read such books as Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim, not to mention a couple of WW I related titles. I will soon be starting a book by Pushkin they republished, The Captain's Daughter.

 

[jazzeum]

Sorry, one more New York Review of Books reference. As this is a movie discussion thread, I just finished reading a Hollywood-related novel, Alfred Hayes' My Face For the World to See. A short work -- only 130 pages -- but fantastic.