Diving Back In to 'Best Pictures From...'

We've finally completed the new episode of Best Pictures From the Outside In. Each week (As if!) we pull two Oscar winners off the shelf from either end of the Academy's 80 year timeline. Your wait for this 1938 vs. 1997 match was as long as Titanic's running time. But you survived it. Congratulations: You're not Leo, you're Kate!


Mike: The 11th episode of "Best Pictures from the Outside In" takes us sailing through treacherous waters, filled with icebergs and taxmen, animated eyebrows and accidental explosions, and (I'm guessing) finally some serious disagreement among our panel members. In 1938, four years after It Happened One Night, Best Picture went to another Frank Capra film, You Can't Take It With You, the overly madcap tale of love in the midst of Capra's traditional battle between free spirits and hidebound plutocrats. In 1997, maritime disaster struck when Titanic, the fraught tale of love aboard the world's largest metaphor raked in a kadillion dollars and won a kadillion Oscars, including Best Picture.

Both films are focused on inter-class love stories, in each case threatened by interference from one-dimensional rich people who treat the poor like dirt...

"All Aboard" for the full conversation...
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