The Best Motion Pictures Of 1968

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The (Best?) Motion Pictures Of 1968

• What was Groovy?

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According To Academy Awards

• Best Picture Of 1968
• Oliver!

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The Runners Up

• -Funny Girl
• -The Lion In Winter
• -Romeo And Juliet
• -Rachel, Rachel

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But Is An Award Winning Movie Necessarily a
Groovy Movie?
What Films From 1968 were not On That List?
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• Stanley Kubricks
• 2001A Space Odyssey

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• Rosemarys Baby

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Charly

• Based On the Novel
• Flowers For Algernon
• (Which Im sure we were all forced to read at
  some point)

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• Beyond this point, I will not guarantee that Im
  not lowering your IQ..

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Perhaps we should let consumer America declare
what movies were best in 1968?
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Romeo And Juliet
Has seen its way Back to the Box Office. Cour
se, it was on
The list anyway.

• Yes, Im aware it is a Shakespearean play

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Doesnt America Love Its Monkeys Movies?
Note Marky Mark replaces Charlton Heston?!?
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Someone Thought This Would Makeem some more money
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The Graduate made up 90 of the Plot for the
recent film Rumor Has it
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However, no film has come close to generating as
many sequels, and some might say its own genre,
as.
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George Ramaros NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
Which as you might of guessed, received poor
reviews in 1968.
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Despite giving birth to these fine films we love
today
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• Adler, Renata. The Apes, The Fox, and Charlie
  Bubbles. The New York Times. Feb 25 1968. pg D1
  
• Adler, Renata. The Screen 2001 Is Up,Up and
  Away. The New York Times. April 4 1968. pg 58
  
• Ebert, Roger. Just Another Horror MovieOr Is
  It? Readers Digest v.94. June 1969. pg 127-128
  
• Katz, Ephraim. The Film Encyclopedia The Most
  Comprehensive Encyclopedia Of World Cinema In A
  Single Volume. New York Collins. 2005. pg
  1171.
• Weiler, A.H. Critiques Name Lion In Winter
  Best Film by 13-11. The New York Times. Dec 31,
  1968. pg 20.
  
• The Internet Movie Database (IMDB). Academy
  Awards for Movies released in 1968.
  http//www.imdb.com/Sections/Years/1968/academy-aw
  ards (accessed April 25, 2006).