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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: OSCARS '62: Days of Wine and Roses
Description: CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of alcoholism, child neglect, substance abuse, addiction.
Every year at the Oscars there’s a movie that stands out as the film that should be the Best Picture, just for the sheer raw power of its storytelling. This is that movie. Jack Lemmon is giving a performance for the ages, the supporting cast is rock solid, and the always contrarian Blake Edwards goes for broke. This could have easily been a melodrama, but you get the sense very quickly that everyone making this movie got the impact of what they were doing he...