Gems

Oscar’s Best

It’s been said that the present is no time to judge a movie’s quality or importance. Indeed, there have been many films which have suffered from (e.g.) bad timing that have not done well or have gone unnoticed until years later. And, many films that “bomb” at the box office (most notably Citizen Kane (1941)) are regarded as great movies of their time or of all time.

There are a lot of terrific films I know that I would have never seen were they not shown in primetime on TCM. Here is a list of some of those films which I don’t believe were well known or well respected at the time of their release, but which over the course of time have come to be regarded as very good and/or important films, at least according to Robert Osborne (TCM’s host). And, I enjoyed them too … if that counts for anything:

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