Movie of the Day (and Sunday Double Feature)

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Movie of the Day (and Sunday Double Feature)

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This is a series I have been doing on the Reel Society Facebook page since January. Here is an recap of every movie I have covered (note that Sundays cover two movies).

Discussion is welcome along with theme suggestions.

Recap:
http://letterboxd.com/buscemi/list/movi ... e-feature/

Weekly Themes:
2014's Overlooked and Underrated
Underrated Comic Book Adaptations
Dark Animation
Flops to Love
The Legend of Nicolas Cage
Romance
Cannon Films
1971: New Hollywood Goes Mainstream
Forgotten Disney
Unknown Altman
Documentaries
London
Guest Picks - David from Paris (that's Chien, for those who don't know)
Dino de Laurentiis
Female Directors
Steve Martin
Shocked and Appalled (controversial movies)
Girl Power
Unknown De Palma
Orion Pictures
Los Angeles
Sam Peckinpah
Black Comedy
Studio Ghibli
1970's Crime Dramas
Coming of Age
John Milius
Richard Stark's Parker
Curator's Picks
Unknown Scorsese
Grindhouse NYC
Just for the Hell of It (movies where the cast and filmmakers aren't taking things seriously but are having fun)
Guest Picks - Frendo from California
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Buscemi wrote:David from Paris
Yayyy that's me that's me !! ;)

I'd suggest a theme like "Palme d'Or winning films no one remembers", or "Oscar winning films you didn't know won an Oscar", that's always fun.
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Those are interesting ideas. Though such categories would require a lot of research (and define "no one remembers" on the Palme d'Or category).
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I suppose "No one remembers" is a very subjective concept.
But I was shocked the other day when I learned that in 1954, at the Venice Film Festival, a year when Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, Hitchcock's Rear Window, Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront, Fellini's La Strada, Visconti's Senso, and Mizoguchi's Sancho (among others) were all in competition for the Golden Lion, the coveted prize went to... a version of Romeo and Juliet no one remembers.
And I'm sure there are such strange things now and then in the history of the big festivals.
But it sure requires quite a lot of research.
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