Glad they mentioned John Cazale. All 5 films he appeared in were nominated for Best Picture and 3 of them won. Cazale was a big part in their successes. He was Meryl Streep's fiancee when he passed away.

Absolutely agree with John Cazale in Dog Day Afternoon. Everyone remembers Fredo but this was his best role on screen.

Love these guys, but Roger kept saying "Martin SHEEHEN". Oh Roger. ❤

Two big thumbs u-p to Roger for saying Shelly Duvall -- she is so great.

Siskel was dead on when he said Kubrick is the star and centerpiece of his movies.

Thanks for posting . It's nice to see this early of a clip from them and the conversation about unrecognized performances was great.

Ebert especially was very supportive of Harvey Keitel in Bad Lieutenant upon its release. But Ferrara's film was independent in the extreme, well outside the boundaries of what Academy voters thought suitable or tasteful enough for their consideration. The Crying Game was as edgy as they got that year. Plus the marketing on Bad Lieutenant did nothing to bait Academy voters; it was always marketed as a kind of nasty midnight movie. The surprise with Keitel is that he wasn't nominated the following year for his terrific performance in Jane Campion's Piano, which the Academy otherwise ate up with spoon.

Cazale “The Conversation”. Shelley Duvall in Three Women is clinically insane, remarkable performance

Sheryl Lee in Fire Walk With Me

The conversation what an underrated masterpiece

Thanks for uploading this. So fun to see some of my "Oscar subs" mentioned in this conversation; particularly in the last moments with Peter Falk in "A Woman Under the Influence" being mentioned. Additionally, John Cazale's career was all too short but, my, how his star shone bright. I still can't get over the scene in "Dog Day Afternoon", where -- about 44 minutes into the film -- Al Pacino's character asks Cazaele's character if there's any special country that he would like to go (to escape). Cazaele pauses for a moment to collect his thoughts an then, with the innocence of a child, utters "Wyoming". That moment is one that has stayed with me for a long time and, despite my love for director Sidney Lumet, I think is all Cazaele.

Siskel is right. Gene Hackman in The Conversation is fantastic. He should have been nominated for that. It's such a good film that I show it i my introductory film class (I'm a college teacher).

How about Judy Garland in A Star is Born? She was nominated for Best Actress but was unable to attend the ceremony because she was preparing to give birth to her son Joey Luft. And she was so widely expected to win that camera crews were sent to her hospital room to catch her reaction when she accepted the award. Then, when the winner was announced, it was revealed that Grace Kelly had won for her role in The Country Girl. Almost everyone was shocked and felt that Judy deserved the award; Groucho Marx even quipped that her loss was "the biggest robbery since Brinks." You could also make this same case for How Green Was My Valley beating Citizen Kane for Best Picture.

Totally forgot about Geneviève Bujold, very underrated actress from the 70s.

John Cazale telling another person not to smoke, cause they should take care of their bodies, is ironic, seeing as he died from lung cancer at 42 (from smoking)

Roger’s eyes/glasses in these older episodes legit looks like those gag glasses with the fake eyes printed over the lens.

Martin Sheen was outstanding and totally convincing in "Badlands"

Love the Christy and Ignaty intro but I wish they still had their show!

Choose Me, Anne Of The Thousand Days, Coma, Obsession, The Trojan Women, Dead Ringers and The Moderns, all movies that should have given Genevieve Bujold an Academy Award. Karen Black should have been on this list too.

Dog day afternoon is an under-rated movie itself.

Gene ,here mentions George C. Scott's three laws of acting. Scott mentioned in another interview, the actor whom met all these criteria was the peerless James Cagney...

God. I sure miss these guys. Grew up with them. Watching on Christmas morn. Feeling a bit maudlin. No one like these guys. You’d think some you tuber rise to the occasion.

A Clockwork Orange is so good. Just a blistering social commentary which is still relevant today and nothing remotely resembled it up to 1970.

One of the biggest snubs for me is not including "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" as part of any category. Such a tight script, such a profound performance of Robert Mitchum. He plays the man so full of pride, he cannot escape it, falling into the bad crowds to support his family and being so broken because of it. It's fantastic and even though the ending is unavoidable, its still heartbreaking. I cannot recommend this film enough.

Shelly Duvall was sadly ignored for The Shining.

McDowall definitely deserved the nomination for Orange.

This subject could be the basis of an entire series. Stacy Keach in Fat City, Richard Widmark in The Bedford Incident and Night and The City, Arnold Stang in The Man With The Golden Arm, Robert Mitchum in Farewell, My Lovely, Humphrey Bogart in In a Lonely Place, and so on...

Roy Scheider - All That Jazz (1979).

Donald Sutherland for ORDINARY PEOPLE.

I felt Donald Sutherland was denied an Oscar nomination for Ordinary People. It was perhaps his greatest performance and the one I remember most from that movie. He was better than Timothy Hutton and Judd Hirsch given the arc he had realizing he no longer loves his wife after her transition after the death of their oldest child. I will always feel this was a gross oversight.

I Fucking LOVE Siskel & Ebert RIP FOREVER

It’s stimulating to merely hear people intelligently discussing film. A rarity these days when people are more interested in sociology, politics, and technology than in art.

Ebert gave a mixed review for The Yakuza. Surprised he didn’t select The Friends of Eddie Coyle.

“ eye of the needle” with Donald Sutherland...excellent

Also Robert Mitchum in Night Of The Hunter, and Martin Sheen in The Execution Of Pvt. Slovic & TWW Two Cathedrals.

I wish they would have combed through who WERE the nominees at those times. But fun to watch.

I'm not a student of the Oscars but it blows my mind that Robert Mitchum never won one,so many great performances over the years...

Nicholson that year in The Shining sure upended their theory on Kubrick being the star of his own movies.

2:44 Shame on Gene for describing Fredo as "goofy". Awkward, uncomfortable maybe, but to boil Fredo down to "goofy" undermines Cazale's understated and amazing performance. One of the greatest American actors who ever lived. Gene can be so condescending about people and subjects that are so much greater than he. Well, that's a critic for you.

Watching this again the day this year's Oscar nominations were announced.

John Cazale, right out of the gate.

I thought i was the only person who loved 3 Women. Great film with great performances

John Cazale should have been nominated for Godfather 2.

I usually disagreed with them but loved the show because they could usually make a good argument to support their point of view.

Julie Harris in The Haunting

John Cazale. 5 movies all nominated for Best Picture 3 wins

I wonder if Quentin Tarantino has ever seen Badlands

I love 3 Women. Great film.

Anthony Quinn for Zorba The Greek.

9:58 Genevieve Bujold, yes! Oui, oui!

Wow this was b4 POPEYE. Shelley duvall needs a comeback on all levels

C "X-Men Apocalypse" for Michael Fassbender's A+ performance

I love these presenters

Malcolm was so good.

Scott’s three laws. They’re what it is.

Jake Gyllenhaal for prisoners that pissed me off

What about Carrot Top in Chairman of the board.

John Cazale was in only five movies. Maybe you're heard of them: "Stan" in The Deer Hunter, 1978 "Sal" in Dog Day Afternoon, 1975 "Fredo Corleone" in The Godfather: Part II, 1974 "Stan" in The Conversation, 1974 "Fredo" in The Godfather, 1972 He worked with Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Sidney Lumet, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Gene Hackman, Harrison Ford, Carol Kane, Diane Keaton, Charles Durning, John Savage, and Meryl Streep He was nominated only once. For Dog Day Afternoon, for a Golden Globe. The movie garnered seven Golden Globe nominations. It won none. There is an excellent documentary on John, called "I Knew it Was You" - tinyurl.com/y444lo92

Scot Wilson in The Ninth Configuration (1979), or anything.

Ebert describes Shelley Duvall as having "off beat good looks." Off beat looks for sure, but "good looks?" Her acting talent aside I don't know anyone who would describe Shelley Duvall as good looking.

Poor Shelly Duvall

They made up for lost time with julianne moore with Still Alice

If you weighed 300 lbs, everyday you had to move that body around and had trouble going upstairs, but suddenly by a miracle, you weighed only 50 lbs, would you be able to be quick and fast like Michael Jackson or at least be as fast as the best basketball player, especially if you still had the muscles that moved you when you were 300 lbs, or would you be moving about so slowly like in the Kubrick film, “2001, A Space Odyssey,” in which people were moving about so slowly to make it believable that they were in either very low gravity. That’s why when only a few months later Neil Armstrong was running at 50% speed, people believed it to be on the moon, to this day, people think if you weighed 85% less, you’d be running at 50% the speed, while common sense would say if you weighed only 50 lbs while you still have the muscles that moved you when you were 300 lbs, you’d be as agile and acrobatic as the Spider-Man or at least be able to leap and jump like world’s best basketball player. Buzz Aldrin couldn’t jump up more than a few inches on the Nevada desert they referred to as the sea of tranquility. Take a tape measure and compare the opening of the Lunar Module (the contraption the amateurs made with cardboard and duct tape) and see if the 3-D printed exact replica of Neil Armstrong with the inflated spacesuit and the backpack could fit through the opening of the hatch. Kubrick was a professional filmmaker with amazing imagination, unlikely to imagine people would move about in low gravity at such slow motion, unless the 2001, A Space Odyssey was a propaganda film, designed to get people expect slow motion as evidence of low gravity. Neil Degrasse Tyson would never answer such question, how can science back such claims as slow motion in low gravity, spacesuits were never inflated in all Apollo missions, the lunar module’s 10,000 lbs of thrust did not disturb the powder like surface of the moon, and how can science back propulsion in total vacuum, what does the exhaust push against to move forward, if exhaust doesn’t slow down upon exit. Junk science also says that 13.8 billion years ago there was nothing, until suddenly there was everything. Why people Believe in such nonsense, is it the decimal point?

Now Will Smith has an Oscar, but sadly, that same night he made a damn fool of himself.

Will Smith got an Oscar on the show where he did a stupid thing.

Haha. Heat. Come on.

Rotten shame that Harrison Ford always got passed up for an Oscar. I thought he deserved one just as much as Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive. Also look at his complex portrayal of Allie Fox in The Mosquito Coast.

Holy shit, a young Christy Lemire! She was a babe...

Martin Shee-in???

Cazale deserves a posthumous Oscar for lifetime achievement (all of which occurred in only 6 years). Shelly Duvall is worse than nails on a chalkboard, however.

It’s called “The Godfather”! Not “Godfather 1”

Ignat--a what?

And now Joaquin Phoenix has an Oscar too!

ELVIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED FOR FLAMING STAR.

Think about this peter sellers is the only actor to get an oscar nom in a kubrick film

Brokeback Mountain Call Me By Your Name

It would have been nice if they said ”the academy” rather than “Oscar”... verbally anthropormorphizing the word, as if it was some guy making bad decisions instead of fellow actors, directors, writers, producers, etc

1980. Things seemed to make more sense back then. Now everyone is more detached and acting is no longer serious.

Julianne Moore finally won a few years later.

Julianne Moore would win a few years after this.

It's pronounced "Kahd zahl lay," not "kuh zaile..."

Scott's 3rd law is false and it's proven by this video! Look at John C's work and tell me he's expressing joy in his work

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that is a butchering of cazale. ca-zah-lay.

Yea...ima listen to men about how to act as a woman, as a woman. Where is the video of women criticizing men? 🤯 Dont look, will never see it

Martin Shehan.

Timothee Chalamet

These two millennials, bracketing the show, for some reason don't have NEARLY the film knowledge or eloquence of Siskel & Ebert. They have nothing to say about why these performances were so fine. They shouldn't even be on here. Nothing to contribute.

I've seen Dog Day Afternoon twice. What a piece of zhit movie that is. Never again.

2:44 Shame on Gene for describing Fredo as "goofy". Awkward, uncomfortable maybe, but to boil Fredo down to "goofy" undermines Cazale's understated and amazing performance. One of the greatest American actors who ever lived. Gene can be so condescending about people and subjects that are so much greater than he. Well, that's a critic for you.