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"  If there&amp;#039;s one fact everyone knows about me, it&amp;#039;s that I love movies. I am obsessed with classic films and have studied them all of my life. Awards season is a fun time of year for many movie fans, and the annual Academy Awards is the Super Bowl of award shows. Most women are mainly interested in the fashions and celeb-spotting, and while I appreciate that, too, for me it is all about the films and the film makers. As a precursor to the red carpet moment, NYC played host to many great film events this weekend.  I visited the 2nd floor of The Shops at Columbus Circle at the Time Warner Center where Kodak, the motion picture film used to create the majority of Oscar winning movies, hosted a &amp;quot;Meet The Oscars&amp;quot; exhibition from February 25th through March 7th. First up: a display of actual Oscars to be awarded, including the 2010 Best Actress Oscar later presented to Sandra Bullock. Continuing on, video screens offered winning speeches from years past while a how-to video showed the process of making a statuette. Next, on view was a display of a special Academy Award given to Eastman Kodak in 2007, as well as Judy Garland&amp;#039;s 1939 miniature award for her performance in The Wizard of Oz (fans at the Chicago &amp;quot;Meet the Oscars&amp;quot; were treated to seeing the 2010 Best Actor Oscar and Bette Davis&amp;#039; award for Jezebel in 1938). The final step in the exhibit led up to a dais where visitors could be photographed holding an actual Oscar. It was a fun and fast exhibit run by a wonderfully enthusiastic and friendly staff. Every person there had a joyous smile on his or her face (and certainly a secret acceptance speech in their heart).     I left Columbus Circle and headed to West Houston Street to the Film Forum, where, from March 5th through March 18th, they&amp;#039;re screening the Victor Fleming Film Festival. Victor Fleming is the Academy Award-winning director of Gone With The Wind, The Wizard of Oz and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He was known as a man&amp;#039;s man, and worked with every major male star at MGM including Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda, and Gary Cooper. Having previously seen both GWTW and The Wizard of Oz on the big screen, I decided to see &amp;quot;Red Dust&amp;quot; which was introduced by Fleming biographer Michael Sragow. The talk was humorous and filled with insider-dish the sell-out crowd reveled in. The 1932 movie (which I had only seen edited and on television) is sharp, funny and still provocative in its blatant sexuality. This film is &amp;quot;pre-code&amp;quot;, made the year before Hollywood began policing itself on subject matter, nudity, and cursing, so nothing is glossed over in Red Dust, which stars Jean Harlow as a prostitute pining away for Clark Gable who is trying to seduce the married Mary Astor.  Given the chance, go and enjoy these films on the big screen as they were intended to be seen. Many of the screenings are preceded with talks by Hollywood authors and historians and oftentimes by family members of the stars. Margaret Hamilton&amp;#039;s (the Wicked Witch) grandson will introduce The Wizard of Oz, author Molly Haskell is introducing GWTW, and Joan of Arc will be introduced by film critic Pia Lindstrom, daughter of film legend Ingrid Bergman. \u2014Trish Schrieber, Fashion Credits Director "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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