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zoë rose bryant has reviewed 26 films tagged ‘best-adapted-screenplay-winner’ during 2020.

The Father

2020

★★★★½ Liked 1

TIFF 2020 - Film #3

The Father is harrowing and hard to watch, but beyond brilliant. Zeller’s dynamic direction and his stupendous screenplay place you right in the mind of someone suffering from dementia, while Hopkins’s (career-best?) performance perfectly personifies that pain. Simply stunning.

Also, I know it’s only September, but... I think we can consider that Best Actor race wrapped up, lol.

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Traffic

2000

★★★½ Watched

Steven Soderbergh’s use of color-coding for the three separate storylines in this movie walked so that Greta Gerwig’s use of warm and cool hues to delineate between the past and the present in Little Women could RUN

Gone with the Wind

1939

★★★★ Liked 1

Never thought the day would come where I could mark this off my watchlist but it HAS and I feel ACCOMPLISHED!!!

It definitely peaks in the first half in my opinion (and it does drag a tad in the final hour), but the filmmaking here is just too exemplary to ignore. And yes, it is most certainly a product of its time, but the direction, the cinematography, and the ACT-ING (Miss ! Vivien ! LEIGH !) all resonate just as much…

Amadeus

1984

★★★★½ Liked 5

Alright, Salieri has had his time in the spotlight, so here’s MY confession.

As I continue on my “Best Picture winner binge,” I remain increasingly skeptical of all these “epics” with 3+ hour runtimes. This isn’t to say I have anything against “long movies” by any means - Titanic was a childhood staple and my family & I almost wore out our VHS with how often we rewatched that masterwork - but for every Titanic, there’s some empty, elongated, and pretentious…