#an unmarried woman

[aspirationalbrand]

an unmarried woman (1978)

[thelastmovie]

An Unmarried Woman (1978), dir. Paul Mazursky.

[oscarupsets]

Limited choices from critics for this week. Between the 5 Best Picture nominees, one went with Midnight Express, one went with An Unmarried Woman, and I was left surprised no one went with the romantic war drama Coming Home.

I originally watched Midnight Express, mostly because An Unmarried Woman was impossible to find. Not on streaming, no reviews in the archive. Neither of my two local county library systems carried a single copy.

However, I quickly realized that was a terrible decision. Midnight Express was ridiculously boring, the pacing was all off, and the score was all late 70s synth? It didn't fit for Türkiye. The Deer Hunter seemed unmatched.

The Deer Hunter took several months to marinate before I felt like I could go back to it. First and foremost, it's 3 hours long, with much of the first hour dedicated to a wedding scene that does little to advance the plot.

If it wasn't for Christopher Walken's superb acting, I don't think I could have gotten through his scenes. His storyline was a bit too jarring for my tastes, but his acting made it tough to look away. Overall the plot and the message were wildly successful. The movie left me at a loss for words, but also with a need to examine the plot more closely.

The Deer Hunter, along with its co-nominee Midnight Express, suffer from this overdramatized xenophobia that leave a bad taste in my mouth. Both films depict gruesome scenes that were historically inaccurate, even with Midnight Express boasting it was a true story!

An Unmarried Woman wasn't really much more impressive than Midnight Express, but at least I could get through it in one sitting. It's nothing flashy. It almost feels made-for-TV movie with a larger budget, but I didn't hate it. I enjoyed the mundane everyday life of Erica, her ex-husband, and their shared teenager for those 2 hours. I'll probably never think of it again.

Pretty straight forward ceremony for the 51st Academy Awards. Only 3 films took more than one Oscar - The Deer Hunter, Coming Home, and Midnight Express. These 3 also split the Big Five.

Both films were not heavily awarded during the rest of the season, with Midnight Express, Coming Home, and Heaven Can Wait splitting almost all of the Golden Globes.

Michael Cimino won an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and a DGA award for direction for The Deer Hunter. Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, and Jill Clayburgh got a bit of recognition from other groups. An Unmarried Woman also made the National Board of Review list for 1978. The Deer Hunter did not.

The Deer Hunter can be found on the major lists we've been following. As for An Unmarried Woman, you won't find it on any list, and you won't find it playing anywhere.

Unofficial Review: Is there even an upset for 1978? If so, I could not find it.

[zoezoegr]

An Unmarried Woman #8

10 August (You Can Try Sometimes) 13x9.5 in/32cmx24 cm Watercolor and pencil on watercolor paper and pen on paper, 2024

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[theinsatiables]

Oh, mon dieu...

Jill Clayburgh holding a massive Paul Jenkins piece in An Unmarried Woman.

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[justsomeguy-cassavetes]

OHHHH my god we're watching an unmarried woman in my film class i cant wait to drop the bisexual alan bates lore on these bitches ♥️♥️♥️

[filmografie]

Favorite films watched for the first time in 2022:

Adoption (1975), dir. Márta Mészáros

An Unmarried Woman (1978), dir. Paul Mazursky

The Red and the White (1967), dir. Miklós Jancsó

Three Sisters (1970), dir. Laurence Olivier

Port of Shadows (1938), dir. Marcel Carné

A Family Submerged (2018), dir. María Alché

Stroszek (1977), dir. Werner Herzog

The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967), dir. Melvin Van Peebles

The Round Up (1966), dir. Miklós Jancsó

The Collection (1976), dir. Laurence Olivier

[apicturespeaks]

An Unmarried Woman, Paul Mazursky

[astonishinglysane]

Movies I’ve Watched - 2023

113/?: An Unmarried Woman (1978) - watched 6/24/23

This movie is very much of its time — it seems to perfectly capture the era of when it was made. However, this means that it is speaking to an audience that isn’t there anymore; a modern audience watching this can only be voyeurs to a world that no longer exists. I can’t say I loved it, but it was interesting getting insight into a time I didn’t live in.

An Unmarried Woman (1978)

[normasshearer]

CLASSIC HORROR HEROINES

RUTH HUSSEY as Pamela "Pam" Fitzgerald in THE UNINVITED (1944) dir. Lewis Allen

[aspirationalbrand]

an unmarried woman (1978)

[llitchilitchi]

happy pride! no matter your gender or sexual orientation, I hope you can find happiness in your life, even if it seems impossible right now

i really wanted to paint this since about march, but haven't really found the time to do so. at last, i finished it before the end of pride month.

the two girls are dressed in traditional Slovak folk dress, or kroj (traditional folk formalwear) from Piešťany region. Piešťany and the nearby village of Krakovany have one of the most gorgeous forms of kroj in the entire country and for a long time, dolls dressed in this style of dress were gifted to foreign delegations to represent my country. the same country that won't represent people like me

it is a form of reclamation, in a way, to depict sapphic love in this dress. we're here, and have always been here, even if the rest of the people will deny us our existence. this is for all my fellow queers living through being a hot point of debate during elections. you are seen and you are loved. you are part of this country, and you are part of our culture, and the culture belongs to you just as much as to everyone else

i love you, and stay safe

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

"contentment in singleness" doesn't require you to stop desiring marriage & family. it doesn't require you to stop pursuing marriage & family.

Christians are called to be content in any situation--that doesn't mean we abandon all our good desires and concrete goals.

contentment is to trust/rest in God's promises to love you, provide for you, and make you holy.

you can do all of those things, and earnestly want and seek a husband.

He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the Lord. Proverbs 18:22

"Favor from the Lord" meaning, of course, blessing as the result of a life molded by wisdom.

Now, how can one find a good wife without seeking? Seek without wanting? And how can wisdom and contentment be mutually exclusive?

[zoezoegr]

An Unmarried Woman #6

1 August (Shattered) 5.8x8.2 in/14.6x21 cm Watercolor and pencil on watercolor paper and pen on paper, 2024

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[tategaminu]

"Rayla is a damsel in distress"

your point?🤨

Yeah she's a damsel because she isn't married to Callum yet and that stresses her out

K👍

I hope she gets saved by Callum again and he carries her bridal style while they spicy kiss

Hating this trope isn't as feminist as you believe it is

WAH WAH WAH WAH GOO GOO GAGA I DO NOT CARE !!