1969's Oscar Nominees

The very obscure Mary Charlotte Wilcox.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0928249/

Yeah, that's always been one of my favorite sketches.

I've enjoyed to varying degrees most of Voight's performances (even The Champ!) through Runaway Train, where he started stinking of ham but in retrospect was a sketch of his gonzo shit in Anaconda.

To say nothing of Baby Geniuses 2.

He just seemed to fall off a cliff after Coming Home. Maybe it was The Champ (I remember it as one of prominent big-budget debacles of its day, along with Hurricane), maybe it was that awful moment at the Academy Awards where he was rendered verklempt by Laurence Olivier's eloquence. I'm sure his creepy right-wing vendetta these days is tied in with perceived mistreatment by Hollywood.

just saw Midnight Cowboy for the first time, agreed on all the highs and all the lows. best unheralded line: ''the x's on the windows mean the landlord can't collect rent, which is a convenience, on account of it's condemned.''. the flashback stuff was dumb and hacky (maybe was stylish and arty at the time?) and took too much time away from really making sense of the characters... like trying to tell background rather than show who they are. hoffman's backstory material was much better handled.

I remember basically liking Butch and Sundance but it's been ten years and I don't really remember much besides the big jump, the ending, and the looming threat of the super-posse (made more visceral without losing the dread in spielberg's Duel). should pull it out for another viewing as I've gotten worn out on The Sting.

Hello Dolly is staggeringly bad and shockingly miscast, with such a sheen of production value that you can almost forget you're bored silly - the machine running full blast with nothing to actually carry. shave an hour off it and it might get away as a mild distraction but the oscar treatment is laughable. guess I should finally pull Z off the shelf!

fwiw I thought Z was an OK period piece based on my VHS viewing twenty years ago – until I watched the Criterion restoration.

For the record, I was NOT the Hello, Dolly! voter.

(slides VHS tape back onto the shelf)

(really!)

Trivia re: the Midnight Cowboy party scene. Warhol himself was first asked to play the underground filmmaker in it; he suggested they use Viva instead. Viva was talking to Andy on the phone about her prepping for the scene at the moment Andy was shot by Valerie Solanis.

think i probably voted Hello Dolly just out of drunken silliness btw

Josefa: thought for sure I'd read he was against the scene...maybe it was just the finished film he didn't like. (Who is Viva's sidekick--the guy who hands out the flier at the diner?)

I did too! But then I reread the relevant sections of Warhol's Popism and he says, "I felt like I was missing a big party, lying there in the hospital like that." In other words, he would've liked to hang around the set even if he weren't in the cast. But then when the film came out he admits he was "so jealous." He thought, "Why didn't they give us the money to do […} Midnight Cowboy? We would have done it so real for them."

I think Viva's sidekick was Gastone Rossilli

I like these, hope you guys do '77 and '78 soon

Kind of surprised I haven't done '77 yet tbh. I'll make that the next one.

Jean-Louis Trintignant in Z is like the ultimate hero in any movie and he spends half of it milling around in the background.