GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER? (1967)
If ever there were an award for least self-aware movie of all time, it would have to go to this wildly popular chestnut of the Sixties civil rights era (Oscar for Best Screenplay!). Ostensibly a forthright look at race relations in America, it spends much of its time telling Black people, including the sassy maid (played by Isabel Sanford), how they should behave.
The over-the-top self-importance of this film perfectly fails to understand the very issues it’s meant to expose. Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner throws some of the most brilliantly talented and incredible actors of their time (Sidney Poitier, Beah Richards, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy and Roy Glenn) together with a rank amateur (nepotism hire Katherine Houghton) in a jarring cinematic bauble that only becomes more jaw-dropping with every year gone by. Beware of the delivery boy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HKOW99DQwk
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (Amazon)
Thats a great selection and the inclusion of Airport 75 is genius.
Guess you don’t watch a lot of foreign cinema 😉 I can name a number of bonkytits pictures that leave most of these in the dust. Week End (1967), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Diabel (1974), The Laughing Woman (1969), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), anything by Lars von Trier… And how come Zabriskie Point (1970) didn’t make this list? Classic.
You forgot the award in Magnolia: The Tom Cruise Award for the presence of the incomparably self-important Tom Cruise. I know… it’s so obvious it’s redundant…