Olde Tyme Movies

• Breakfast at Tiffany's - Very sweet, even sappy you could say, but thoroughly enjoyable, thanks in no small part to Audrey Hepburn's unearthly beauty (released in 1961, when she was 32). Truth be told, however, she wasn't much of an actress. Remarkably, she was nominated for Best Actress for an Academy Award but she didn't win. Too bad they don't have one for Most Beautiful. It won for best Music. Also nominated for Writing and Art Direction.

• Network - Deliciously cynical skewer of the news media from 1976. Brilliant script by Paddy Chayefsky, except that I saw it a few days ago, so I can't really remember any dialogue other than the classic line, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more!" Academy Award winner for Best Actor (Peter Finch), Best Actress (Faye Dunaway), Best Supporting Actress and Writing, and nominated for Best Picture, another Best Actor (William Holden), Cinematography, Directing and more.

• The Apartment -
  
  Best movie I've seen so far this year. Saw it years ago (made 1960), but forgot just how fantastic it was. Unbelievably great dialogue (Billy Wilder). "You would think I should have learned by now. When you're in love with a married man you shouldn't wear mascara." Also, Fran: "Why can't I ever fall in love with somebody nice like you?" Baxter: "Yeah. Well -- that's the way it crumbles, cookie-wise." And many others I'd happily watch it again tomorrow night in order to transcribe. Deservedly won Best Picture and Directing, along with three other Academy Awards, out of 10 nominations in all. Must see; A+; #82 most popular on IMDB.