In 1978’s American war drama The Deer Hunter, three friends portrayed by Bobby DeNiro (we’re tight), Christopher Walken, and John Savage enter the Vietnam War as cheerful, vivacious jokesters only to return damaged and half-full. (So basically, it’s like almost every single war movie ever made.) But what Michael Cimino’s film really offers here is some dynamite…
It was really generous of Gravity to let some other films win a few shiny gold men. The Alfonso Cuarón-directed film took home honors for Cuarón (Best Director), Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects. Despite winning the most Oscars, 12 Years a Slave…
On my last Epic Film Quest review, I said I really, desperately needed a home-run film to come up soon. Well fuck me sideways, Sydney Pollack’s 1985 Romance Drama Out of Africa was not what I was looking for. It took a lot out of me, kids. A lot. But it did have some cool…