I'm not sure it fits with today's sensibilities or current film fashions. It's a nice film. Nobody is plotting to do bad stuff to anyone else. No murders, no fights, no spies, no blood, no women in peril, no cheating. Nobody blows up a helicopter. It's about ordinary people who, as hunkra says, look like plain people and not like movie stars playing ordinary people. Working-class Italians in the Bronx. The film is great for the way it evokes that world and its ordinary problems. Paddy Chayefsky deserved that writing Oscar.hunkra wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 9:39 amI agree! It's a wonderful film, in that romantic films of that time usually centered around attractive, socialite types falling for each other. One of the rare times a film featured a two "plain" people falling in love. Interesting tidbit, the actress Betsy Blair almost couldn't do the role because she had been blacklisted as a Marxist by the McCarthy goons. But since she was married to Gene Kelly, some strings were pulled and she got the part!
And it's only 90 minutes long. It might come around on TCM this month. And you can always get it on Amazon Prime.
) and specifically, the Oscar for Film Editing. Found the film editors for all the films in the clues (15) and looked for something from the names… nada. Then whittled it down to only those films nominated / winners for Oscar’s in Film Editing (7) … nada. Then just those that won Oscars for Film Editing (4: Cold Mountain, Boys From Brazil, The Right Stuff and Argo) and taking the letters of the grid answers corresponding to the numbers of those clues got NABU… apparently the “patron god of scribes, literacy, and wisdom” (re Google) and also “member of the Lords of Order” from some DC comic movie! Neither of those answers described the state of my brain at that point and despite the many “Naboo” references I’ve seen on this forum, I resisted the temptation to submit. Gave up and said to my dear wife “C’mon, let’s watch the Oscars” to which she replied “They’re next week, silly!” Arrgghhh!
