Oscar weekend is a busy time but it's also your last opportunity to watch these titles free if you have Amazon Prime or Netflix. As is our silly habit, we've freeze framed a handful of them at a totally random place to whet your appetite. If this scene looks intriguing maybe you should carve out a couple of hours...
Leaving Netflix (after the jump)
Don--don' fight. I'll go wher-wherever de bubbles are!"
WINGS (1927) the very first Oscar winner (Best Picture and Best Effects). I *love* it. Charles "Buddy" Rogers, is very drunk in this scene, with Clara Bow trying to rescue him from some shady French dame. There's an hour left of the movie which will be mostly the Great War (aka WW I) from here on out with amazing aviation battle scenes for 1927... and the visceral physical friendship/rivalry between Charles and his co-star Richard Arlen.
JOHNNY DANGEROUSLY (1984)
DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS (1986) 2 Golden Globe nominations Best Picture and Actress, Comedy/Musical
MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (1987)
INDECENT PROPOSAL (1993) In the freeze frame about Demi Moore has just made a big messy scene at a high class restaurant and everyone is staring at her... which is as good a metaphor as any for Demi Moore's career in the 1990s. (LOL- not the right hand corner of the screener where an extra is standing with food still on his fork.) This was part of Demi Moore's short but very successful run of hits from Ghost (1990) to A Few Good Men (1992) through Disclosure (1994) that led to her being the highest paid actress in Hollywood (Striptease, 1996)... albeit for a brief moment. The movie about a couple (Demi & young/beautiful Woody Harrelson) who get mixed up in a real estate battle with a mogul (Robert Redford) is very plotty when all anyone cared about was the central "edgy" water-cooler question: would you sleep with someone for a million dollars?
HAMLET (1990) the Gibson/Close/Zeffirelli iteration
THE SEA INSIDE (2004) Oscar winner Best Foreign Language Film
NIGHT CATCHES US (2010) *you have a few extra days for this Black Panther era romantic drama starring Anthony Mackie and Kerry Washington. It leaves Netflix on March 3rd*
I never set out at the beginning to play just female parts. But they were the only parts that came my way. They were written especially for me. They were the leads in films. As a young aspiring actor, you don't turn down the lead in a movie. They made me a star, of sorts, with a cult status. But a cult status isn't enough. You can't get by on that. You can't make any money.
I AM DIVINE (2013) *a few extra days for this one, too - leaves March 5th* If you want to get schooled on the pre-internet pre-drag-going-mainstream sensation that was Divine, you should watch this doc. It's by Jeffrey Schwartz who also did Vito for HBO.
JUMANJI (1995)
AMERICAN PIE (1999)
GONE IN SIXTY SECONDS (2000) Angelina Jolie with blonde dreadlocks in a Nicolas Cage movie. This is the only thing worth knowing about it
ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE (2001)
No idea what's going on in the scene above. I remember literally nothing about this movie from Disney's wandering period between blockbuster eras (roughly 2000-2009?).
leaving Amazing Prime
THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997)
I said Phooey and I mean Phooey!"
POPEYE (1980) Was there ever better stunt casting than Robin Williams as Popeye and Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl? This Robert Altman flop also gave us the song "He Needs Me" which is brilliantly used in Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Do you have fond memories of any of these pictures... or will you try to cram any of them into this busy weekend?