THE 4TH ROLLIE AWARDS

THE 4TH ROLLIE FILM AWARDS/200TH FILM NIGHT

Last Friday it was time for the event of the season - the Rollie film awards. As always, we marked the milestone of reaching 200 films by celebrating. This time, we celebrated by having a day of baking fudge and cookies for the awards ceremony before exchanging Christmas presents, having an evening meal and watching the 200th and 201st films.

These films were:

200. The Green Mile (1999)

201. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

All the award nominees and winners can be found here. It was extremely hard to pick winners from each category as we have watched such a diverse range of brilliant (and bad) films. We both agreed that film numbers 150-199 have been the best set of films we have watched to date (beating films 50-99). The winner of best film was 'The Hunt', the first film not made in the USA to win the award (Denmark). Other nominees were Memento, Catching Fire and The Help. However we even struggled to narrow the films down to four nominees, with other films such as About Time, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Walkabout, The Place Beyond the Pines, American History X and Gravity all suggested as nominees. 

The two films we watched were brilliant, especially The Green Mile. I would safely assume that at the minute it will definitely be up for Best Film at the next awards. We both cried. A lot. The Grapes of Wrath was also very enjoyable however I feel that it has become slightly overrated over the years and that the novel would be a lot better. Hoever, Fonda was brilliant in his role as Tom Joad.

Here's to the next 50 films! 

Ollie