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?
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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