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With apologies to Disney fans, you wont findPocahontason this list of the best movies based on true stories.
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Not because its animated, or because of the storys distance from reality (her actual namewasnt even Pocahontas!
We all need an escape sometimes, even if art mimics life and the truth is stranger than fiction.
Feels like messing with perfection.
At the same time, this is a near-perfect movie, so who am I to complain?
Yes, there is a heart-rending love story betweenCate Blanchetts Queen Elizabeth I and Joseph Fiennes Earl of Leicester.
Which, by the way, won Oscars too.
Smith plays a young con-man who inserts himself into the lives of some pretentious Upper East Side art lovers.
Its beautiful, well-paced, and, as my own grandmothera fan of Piafsmight say, romantic as hell.
But every scene inGoodfellaswill make you glad he took those risks.
Never has a life of crime looked so good, literally.
The coup de grace?
An entrancing score from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
A female gangster took the lead.
The anti-hero archetype was challenged by Beattys Clyde.
Their love had real flaws.
It all ended in an unprecedented and magnificent hail of bulletsand moviemaking was forever changed.
(And lets not forget the countless runway collections andbeauty looksinspired by Dunawaysiconic costumes!)
But therein lies its importance.
Again, putting it plainly: this film goes deep.
