f you're reading this article, it means I survived an event I anticipate and dread each year: AMC's Best Picture Marathon, in which every single Best Picture nominee (9 this year!) is screened back-to-back for a captive audience in a single 24-hour block. This year, that meant sobbing my way through Amour before lunchtime, struggling to stay awake as Les Miserables stretched past midnight, and leaving the theater uplifted and exhausted by Beasts of the Southern Wild. (See the full Best Picture Marathon Showcase schedule below.) What were the highlights and lowlights of this year's Best Picture Marathon? Here, read a sample of my live dispatches from the nine-movie showcase — and don't forget to come back for The Week's Academy Awards live blog at 8:00 p.m. ET tonight:
- How a female sex pill could save marriage
- Operation Swill: New Jersey's top-shelf liquor scam
- A linguistic dissection of 7 annoying teenage sounds
- Before Midnight is the most important cinematic love story of all time
- WATCH: Suspect defends brutal beheading of London man in broad daylight
- How a Ghost Army of American artists helped defeat Hitler
- Is it possible to think without language?
- Apple's iPhone 5S: Everything we know so far [Updated]
- Jony Ive's major iOS 7 redesign: 'Black and white and flat all over'?
- My husband has a small penis. Help!
- WATCH: Suspect defends brutal beheading of London man in broad daylight
- A linguistic dissection of 7 annoying teenage sounds
- Stockholm is burning: Why the Swedish riots bode ill for Europe
- How a Ghost Army of American artists helped defeat Hitler
- Is it possible to think without language?
- Girls on Film: 6 Oscar hosts who would be better than Seth MacFarlane
- The politics behind Kanye West's 'New Slaves'
- What caused Japan's stock market to tumble? 3 theories
- 5 fascinating reasons cockroaches will outlive us all
- London's gruesome attack and the rising threat of lone-wolf terrorism
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