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Watch List Weekly Recap 3/7/23

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Watch List Weekly Recap 3/7/23

The nicest Oscars in years, Happy 90th to Sir Michael Caine, and a new podcast on an ever-burning movie and subject.

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The week started with my post-mortem of a surprisingly congenial and gracious Academy Awards. A bellwether for the future? Or the beginning of the end?

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Jotting down a few post-mortem notes at 11:45 p.m. – which is still an early evening for me after 20 years of Oscar nights at the Globe offices, putting the late edition to bed at 1 a.m. (Added bonus: I get to watch the Oscars with my wife and friends for only the second time since 2002…
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Michael Caine turned 90 on Tuesday! An occasion for paid subscribers to bat around their favorite performances by this sly and ever under-appreciated actor in a chat thread.


A new “Classics of the New Millennium” podcast went up on Thursday, in which Slate film critic (and Buster Keaton biographer) Dana Stevens and I discuss “4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days,” the 2007 Cannes prizewinner about an abortion in 1980s Romania that now looks eerily relevant to 2020s America.


Note: The Watch List will take a brief hiatus while I recover from a medical procedure. Nothing too serious, thanks, but I’ll be out of commission for a week or so.


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Brenda
Mar 17

Did you review Creed III and I missed it, or are you planning to? Thanks!

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John Hall
Mar 17Liked by Ty Burr

Good luck with your procedure, Ty--hope all goes well.

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