New Photos Added: Dolly Parton, Cary Grant, Mae West, John Ford, WRITTEN ON THE WIND, Sexy Smokers, Pope John XXXIII, Travis Bickle, etc.

June 21st, 2008 by Scott Marks

Drew Barrymore - 2 Photos from Cat’s Eye (1985)

Howard Hawk’s Bringing Up Baby (1938) - 5 New Photos Added

Celebrity Endorsements

Travis Bickle for Underhill Records
Dolly Parton Wigs

Cary Grant - 10 New Photos Added

Howard Hawks’ Land of the Pharaohs (1955) - 1 New Photo Added

Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin & Harpo Marx

Logos
Shaw Scope Logo

All-Star Myra Breckinridge Lobby Card (1970) - John Huston, Raquel Welch, Mae West, Rex Reed and “director” Michael Sarne

Shine a Light (2008) Berlin Film Festival premiere

Smokey the Bear - “Don’t Play With Matches” bookmark

“Which one of you criminali has a match?”

Smoking is Sexy

Asia Argento, Lauren Bacall, Ana Beatriz Barros, Linda Blair, Cher, Bette Davis, Francoise Dorleac & Catherine Deneuve, Sasha Grey, Rita Hayworth, Grace Jones, Carole Lombard, Virginia Madsen, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Pare, Sarah Jessica Parker, Robin Wright Penn, Michelle Phillips, Nikki Reed, Anna Nicole Smith, Liv Tyler, Evan Rachel Wood, Evan Rachel Wood and Nikki Reed,

John Ford’s The Sun Shines Bright (1953) - 7 Lobby Cards

Taxi Driver Insert Poster

Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind (1956) - 8 Lobby Cards

Tags: Ads, Bringing Up Baby, Cary Grant, Celebrity, Dean Martin, Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton wigs, Douglas Sirk, Drew Barrymore, Harpo Marx, Howard Hawks, Jerry Lewis, John Ford, Land of the Pharaohs, Lobby Cards, Mae West, Martin Scorsese, Myra Breckinridge, New Photos, Photo, Raquel Welch, Shaw Scope, SHINE A LIGHT, Smokey the Bear, TAXI DRIVER, The Rolling Stones, THE SUN SHINES BRIGHT, Travis Bickle, Vintage, Written on the Wind

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Movie dads that won’t make father’s day

June 15th, 2008 by Scott Marks

1. The Butcher in Gaspar Noé’s I Stand Alone (1998)

Part of the reason I adore this movie is because I have always believed it to be a revisionist version of Taxi Driver only darker. This baby takes everything Travis has to give, pumps up realism — when The Butcher (Philippe Nahon) goes to a porn theater, you’ll witness more than some R-rating-friendly shadows dancing on the screen — and never stops moving towards its ghastly conclusion(s). Everybody steals from Scorsese, but few are capable of making it their own, thereby demonstrating an advanced state of cinematic enlightenment. Transplant Travis to Paris, have him hack meat instead of fares, give him a retarded daughter and ouila - out pops one of the vilest, most repugnant movies ever made (and my vote for feel-good picture of eternity!). After pulling a Joe Kennedy and throwing his daughter in a mental institution, The Butcher returns to Paris to find her. Alone in a hotel room with his daughter, the director provides his audience with two alternate conclusions: rape or murder. Rent the DVD and play along at home.

2. “The Lieutenant” in Abel Ferrara’s The Bad Lieutenant (1992)

If you haven’t already, go back and study the dialog during the opening car ride. We know nothing about “The Lieutenant” (Harvey Keitel) and Ferrara and screenwriter Nick St. John want to make a solid first impression. “The Lieutenant” and his two young sons (both sporting blazers that scream parochial school) make a hurried dash for the car. The boys whine that they were late because Aunt Wendy keeps hogging the bathroom. Turning on them as though they were refugees from Police Academy 5, Harvey barks,

“Hey — Listen to me. I’m the boss, not Aunt Wendy. When it’s your turn to use the bathroom, you tell Aunt Wendy to get the f–k out of the bathroom! What are you, men or mice?…Call me. I’ll throw her the f–l out!”

A few reels later he’s buck naked, smoking crack and crying like a baby. When was the last time you really saw your father?

3. Joey LaMotta in Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull (1980)

Jake (Robert DeNiro) is by no means Judge Hardy, but the father of the year award goes to the younger LaMotta brother. Unfortunately there isn’t enough quality screen time devoted to Joey (Joe Pesci) and his kids, but the thirty seconds we do get to spend around the family dinner table is magic. Joey points a knife at his young son and threatens, “If I see you put your hand in the plate one more time I’m gonna’ stab you with this knife. You hear me?” We never learn if Joey, Jr. got the message for no sooner is his dad about to bludgeon the tot with a butter knife, Uncle Jake saves the day by bursting into the house and putting his brother’s head through a glass door. Every day is Father’s Day in the LaMotta household, ya’ son of a bitch!

4. Wade Hunnicutt in Vincente Minnelli’s Home From the Hill (1960)

There were two venal Minnelli patriarchs to choose from, neither of whom had Liz Taylor as their on-screen daughter. Arthur Kennedy is pure scum in Some Came Running. On the surface he’s Parkman, Indiana’s #1 son, but his heart pumps silt. As much as he sickens me (in a good way), he is no match for Mitchum in Home From the Hill. Minnelli asks us to accept George Hamilton in the role of Robert Mitchum’s son. (And I goof on spielberg’s inability to suspend disbelief!) It’s great to watch Mitchum belittle the ever-fledgling actor, but all roads lead to Bob’s heated moment of comeuppance. Eighty-seven minutes in, Hamilton enters dad’s study/arsenal to make it known that he’s hip to the fact that one of the ranch hands is his half brother. Cool Bob easily deflects the news. After all, he sewed some oats with a tramp that gave birth by the side of a ditch. Hamilton follows with the line of his career: “She must have been some pig to crawl into bed with you.” Thawing momentarily, Bob stammers, “We’ll just let that…We’ll just let that pass in the heat of the moment.” Flustered Mitchum seldom appears on the menu. When it does savor it!

5. Jasper Hadley in Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind (1956)

“A great man! A giant of a man!” To hear his family speak you’d half expect Glenn Langan to walk in the room with Jonas Salk in hand. (Which reminds me, look at the size of the gusher on that guy! Talk about being oil-well hung!) Instead of a titan, Douglas Sirk portrays Jasper Hadley (Robert Keith) as an emaciated mouse. The inheritors to his throne are an impotent lush (Robert Stack) and a slutty daughter (Dorothy Malone) that makes Mitchum’s “sand hill tacky” look like Amanda Bynes. Halfway through the picture Old Man Hadley’s ticker gives out forcing him to take a fatal plunge down the family’s grand staircase. If a puny man falls in the middle of a mansion, does anybody hear? Are the chances worsened if his harlot daughter is blasting a molten version of Temptation on her Victrola? In honor of the day, let us end with a bit of patroclinous trivia: Milquetoast Robert Keith is the real life sire of strapping TV father (and dad to both Hayley Mills), Brian “Uncle Bill” Keith. Hmmm…Does that mean a Hamilton can father a Mitchum?

Tags: BAD LIEUTENANT, Fathers Day, George Hamilton, Harvey Keitel, HOME FROM THE HILL, I STAND ALONE, Joe Pesci, Martin Scorsese, Movie, Movies, Philippe Nahon, RAGING BULL, Robert Keith, Robert Mitchum, Written on the Wind

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WRITTEN ON THE WIND / Douglas Sirk (1956)

July 8th, 2007 by Scott Marks

Robert Keith in Douglas Sirk’s WRITTEN ON THE WIND (1956)

Written on the Wind (1956)

Directed by: Douglas Sirk

Photographed by: Russell Metty in

Written by: Robert Wilder, George Zuckerman

Genres: Melodrama

Cast: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith, Grant Williams, Robert J. Wilke, Edward Platt, Harry Shannon, John Larch, Joseph Granby, Roy Glenn, Maidie Norman, William Schallert, Joanne Jordan

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

“Those goddamned oil wells,” Douglas Sirk remembered with a wry grin. Russ Meyer signed the only other films that boasted more phallic symbols. Dorothy Malone gave the Oscar® winning performance of her career as Marylee Hadley, the tramp daughter of a “great man. a giant of a man” (Robert Keith). All hell breaks loose when her childhood sweetheart (Rock Hudson) falls in love with her brother’s (Robert Stack) wife (Lauren Bacall). This Technicolor triumph remains one of the sharpest melodramas ever filmed. Through garish production design and chiseled lighting Sirk manages to turn this pile of producer Ross Hunter fluff into a preeminent example of style over substance. Home video cannot do justice to Russell Metty’s hard-edged cinematography. Were I given one film to take to hell with me, it would either be Touch of Evil or this eminently watchable triumph!

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Films to See Before You Die

May 24th, 2007 by Scott Marks

Citizen Kane / Orson Welles (1941) USA - Film Noir
The Rules of the Game / Jean Renoir (1939) France - Romantic Tragedy
Touch of Evil / Orson Welles (1956) USA - Film Noir
Vertigo / Alfred Hitchcock (1958) Ó USA - Romantic Tragedy
The Searchers / John Ford (1956) Ó USA - Western
Tokyo Story / Yazujiro Ozu (1950) Japan - Family Drama
The Life and Death of Col. Blimp / Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (1942) Ó Britain - Historical Drama
Sherlock, Jr. / Buster Keaton (1924) USA - The Poetics of Comedy
Written on the Wind / Douglas Sirk (1957) Ó USA - Contemptuous Melodrama
L’Age d’Or / Luis Bunuel (1930) France - Anti-clerical Anarchy
The Passion of Joan of Arc / Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928) Denmark - Historical Drama
Sunrise / F.W. Murnau (1927) USA - Romantic Melodrama
Scarface / Howard Hawks (1930) USA - Gangster Drama
Once Upon a Time in the West / Sergio Leone (1969) Ó¸ USA - Epic Revisionist Western
Casino / Martin Scorsese (1995) Ó¸ USA - Gangster Epic
Artists and Models / Frank Tashlin (1955) Ó USA - Comedy
In Harm’s Way / Otto Preminger (1965) ¸ USA - WWII Melodrama
Some Came Running / Vincente Minnelli (1959) Ó¸ USA - Melodrama
Shock Corridor / Sam Fuller (1963) USA - Beyond Classification
While the City Sleeps / Fritz Lang (1956) ¸ USA - Film Noir
The Birth of a Nation / D.W. Griffith (1915) USA - Epic
The Cheat / Cecil B. DeMille (1915) USA - Romantic Melodrama
Intolerance / D.W. Griffith (1916) USA - Epic
Broken Blossoms / D.W. Griffith (1919) USA - Melodrama
Male and Female / Cecil B. DeMille (1919) USA
Sunnyside / Charles Chaplin (1919) USA - Comedy Short
The Last of the Mohicans / Maurice Tourneur (1920) USA - Adventure
One Week / Buster Keaton (1920) USA - Short Comedy
Nanook of the North / Robert Flaherty (1922) USA - Documentary
Foolish Wives / Erich Von Stroheim (1922) USA - Drama
Nosferatu / F.W. Murnau (1922) Germany - Horror
A Woman of Paris A Woman of Paris / Charles Chaplin (1923) USA - Romance
Why Worry? / Fred Newmeyer & Sam Taylor (1923) USA - Comedy
The Marriage Circle / Ernst Lubitsch (1924) USA - Romantic Comedy
He Who Gets Slapped / Victor Seastrom (1924) USA - Drama
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried & Kriemheld’s Revenge / Fritz Lang (1924) Germany - Fantasy
The Last Laugh / F.W. Murnau (1924) Germany - Kammerspielfilm
The Thief of Baghdad / Raoul Walsh (1924) USA - Rousing Adventure
Greed / Erich Von Stroheim (1925) USA - Epic
The Big Parade / King Vidor (1925) USA - War
Seven Chances / Buster Keaton (1925) USA - Cubist Comedy
The General / Buster Keaton (1926) USA - Comedy
Metropolis / Fritz Lang (1926) USA - Science Fiction
What Price Glory? / Raoul Walsh (1926) USA - War
Underworld / Josef Von Sternberg (1927) USA - Crime
The Student Prince of Old Heidelberg / Ernst Lubitsch (1927) USA - Drama
Napoleon / Abel Gance (1927) ¸ France - Historical Epic
The Docks of New York / Josef Von Sternberg (1928) USA - Crime
The Love Parade / Ernst Lubitsch (1929) USA - Musical
Monte Carlo / Ernst Lubitsch (1930) USA - Musical
The Big Trail / Raoul Walsh (1930) ¸ USA - Western
M / Fritz Lang (1931) Germany - Psychological Horror
Street Scene / King Vidor (1931) USA - Drama
Kammeradschaft / G.W. Pabst (1931) Germany - Drama
A Nous la Liberte / Rene Clair (1931) France - Musical Comedy
Monkey Business / Norman Z. McLeod (The Marx Bros./1931) USA - Comedy
The Old Dark House / James Whale (1932) USA - Horror
Sign of the Cross / Cecil B. DeMille (1932) USA - Biblical Epic
Trouble in Paradise / Ernst Lubitsch (1932) USA - Romantic Comedy
A Farewell to Arms / Frank Borzage (1932) - Romantic Melodrama
Land Without Bread / Luis Bunuel (1932) Mexico - Anthropological Farce
The Half-Naked Truth / Gregory LaCava (1932) USA - Comedy
Three on a Match / Mervyn LeRoy (1932) USA - Melodrama
Freaks / Tod Browning (1932) USA - Horror
One Way Passage / Tay Garnett (1932) USA - Romantic Melodrama
Jewel Robbery / William Dieterle (1932) USA - Romantic Comedy
Duck Soup / Leo McCarey (The Marx Bros./1933) USA - Comedy
Hallelujah, I’m a Bum / Lewis Milestone (1933) USA - Depression-era Musical
King Kong / Ernest Schoedsack & Merrian C. Cooper (1933) USA - Horror Fantasy
Footlight Parade / Lloyd Bacon & Busby Berkeley (1933) USA - Musical
Baby Face / Alfred E. Green (1933) USA - Pre-code Melodrama
Island of Lost Souls / Erle C. Kenton (1933) USA - Horror
The Scarlet Empress / Josef Von Sternberg (1934) USA - Visual Smorgasbord
L’Atalante / Jean Vigo (1934) France - Fantasy
The Black Cat / Edgar G. Ulmer (1934) USA - Horror
It’s a Gift / Norman Z. McLeod (W.C. Fields/1934) USA - Comedy
The March of the Wooden Soldiers / Gus Meins & Charles Rogers (Laurel & Hardy/1934) USA - Comedy
The Devil is a Woman / Josef Von Sternberg (1935) USA - Visual Smorgasbord
The 39 Steps / Alfred Hitchcock (1935) USA - Suspense Comedy
Peter Ibbetson / Henry Hathaway (1935) USA - Romantic Drama
Ruggles of Red Gap / Leo McCarey (1935) USA - Comedy
Toni / Jean Renoir (1935) France - Neorealism
The Wedding Night / King Vidor (1935) USA - Romantic Drama
Triumph of the Will / Leni Reifenstahl (1935) USA -Nazi Recruitment Film
Bride of Frankenstein / James Whale (1935) USA - Black Comedy
The Man on the Flying Trapeze / Clyde Bruckman (W.C. Fields/1935) USA - Comedy
Fury / Fritz Lang (1936) USA - Drama
A Day in the Country / Jean Renoir (1936) USA - Outdoors Romance
Swing Time / George Stevens (1936) USA - Musical
Modern Times / Charles Chaplin (1936) USA - Social Comedy
My Man Godfrey / Gregory LaCava (1936) USA - Screwball Comedy
Things to Come / William Cameron Menzies (1936) USA - Science Fiction
Make Way for Tomorrow / Leo McCarey (1937) USA - Sentimental Drama
The Awful Truth / Leo McCarey (1937) USA - Romantic Comedy
History is Made at Night / Frank Borzage (1937) USA - Romantic Drama
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs / David Hand (1937) Ó USA - Animation
Young and Innocent / Alfred Hitchcock (1937) Britain - Romantic Suspense
The Edge of the World / Michael Powell (1937) Britain - Drama
Holiday / George Cukor (1938) USA - Sophisticated Drama
Alexander Nevsky / Sergei Eisenstein (1938) Russia - Historical Epic
You Can’t Take it With You / Frank Capra (1938) USA - Screwball Comedy
Port of Shadows / Marcel Carne (1938) France - Film Noir
Only Angels Have Wings / Howard Hawks (1939) USA - Aviation Drama
Young Mr. Lincoln / John Ford (1939) USA - Sentimental Historical Drama
Gunga Din / George Stevens (1939) USA - Adventure
The Wizard of Oz / Victor Fleming (1939) Ó USA - Fantasy
Union Pacific / Cecil B. DeMille (1939) USA - Railroad Epic
His Girl Friday / Howard Hawks (1940) USA - Breakneck Comedy
Pinocchio / Ben Sharpsteen & Hamilton Luske (1940) USA - Animation
The Mortal Storm / Frank Borzage (1940) USA - Romantic War Drama
Gaslight / Thorold Dickinson (1940) Britain - Melodrama
The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family / Yasujiro Ozu (1941) Japan - Family Drama
Sullivan’s Travels / Preston Sturges (1941) USA - Comedy/Drama
The 49^th Parallel / Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (1941) Britain - War Drama
The Lady Eve / Preston Sturges (1941) USA - Screwball Comedy
High Sierra / Raoul Walsh (1941) USA - Crime Drama
The Maltese Falcon / John Huston (1941) USA - Film Noir
The Magnificent Ambersons / Orson Welles (1942) USA - Drama
There Was a Father / Yasujiro Ozu (1942) Japan - Family Drama
To Be or Not to Be / Ernst Lubitsch (1942) USA - Topical Comedy
Listen to Britain / Humphrey Jennings Britain - Documentary
Ossessione / Luchino Visconti (1942) Italy - Neorealist Noir
Son of Fury / John Cromwell (1942) USA - Historical Adventure
Heaven Can Wait / Ernst Lubitsch (1943) Ó USA - “Old Man’s” Film
Shadow of a Doubt / Alfred Hitchcock (1943) USA - Serial Killer Suspenser
The Seventh Victim / Mark Robson (1943) USA - Satanic Noir
Meet Me in St. Louis / Vincente Minnelli (1944) Ó USA - Family Musical
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek / Preston Sturges (1944) USA - Service Comedy
Ivan the Terrible Part 1 / Sergei Eisenstein (1944) Russia - Historical Epic
Since You Went Away / John Cromwell (1944) War Melodrama
Cobra Woman / Robert Siodmak (1944) Ó USA - Propaganda
Cure of the Cat People / Robert Wise & Gunther Fritsch - USA - Fantasy
The Southerner / Jean Renoir (1945) USA - Drama
Yolanda and the Thief / Vincente Minnelli (1945) Ó USA - Musical Fantasy
Detour / Edgar G. Ulmer (1945) USA - Poverty Row Noir
The Bells of St. Mary’s / Leo McCarey (1945) USA - Religious Passion
Objective, Burma! / Raoul Walsh (1945) USA - WWII Drama
Leave Her to Heaven / John Stahl (1945) Ó USA - Technicolor® Noir
The Three Caballeros / Norman Ferguson (1945) Ó USA - Animation
Les Dames du Bois Boulogne / Robert Bresson (1945) France - Melodrama
Getting Gertie’s Garter / Allan Dwan (1945) USA - Marital Comedy
Black Narcissus / Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (1946) Ó Britain - Melodrama
Notorious / Alfred Hitchcock (1946) USA - Propaganda
My Darling Clementine / John Ford (1946) USA - Western
Shoeshine / Vittorio DeSica (1946) Italy - Neorealism
It’s a Wonderful Life / Frank Capra (1946) USA - Family Drama
Open City / Roberto Rossellini (1946) Italy - Neorealism
The Big Sleep / Howard Hawks (1946) USA - Noir
Beauty and the Beast / Jean Cocteau (1946) France - Romantic Fantasy
Great Expectations / David Lean (1946) Britain - Dickensian Drama
Ivan the Terrible Part II / Sergei Eisenstein (1946) Ó Russia - Historical Epic
The Man I Love / Raoul Walsh (1946) USA - Musical Noir
Monsieur Verdoux / Charles Chaplin (1947) Britain - Black Comedy
Out of the Past / Jacques Tourneur (1947) USA - Supreme Noir
Pursued / Raoul Walsh (1947) Freudian Noir Western
The Exile / Max Ophuls (1947) USA - Adventure
The Red Shoes / Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (1948) Ó Britain - Ballet
Fort Apache / John Ford (1948) USA - Western
Letter From an Unknown Woman / Max Ophuls (1948) USA - Romantic Melodrama
Force of Evil / Abraham Polonsky (1948) USA - Noir
Red River / Howard Hawks (1948) USA - Western
The Pirate / Vincente Minnelli (1948) Ó USA - Musical Fantasy
Moonrise / Frank Borzage (1948) USA - Romantic Melodrama
A Foreign Affair / Billy Wilder (1948) USA - War Comedy
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre / John Huston (1948) USA - Adventure
So This is New York / Richard Fleischer (1948) USA - Comedy
Caught / Max Ophuls (1949) USA - Romantic Melodrama
Gun Crazy / Joseph H. Lewis (1949) USA - White Heat / Raoul Walsh (1949) USA - Crime Drama
Under Capricorn / Alfred Hitchcock (1949) Ó Britain - Costume Drama
The Pirates of Capri / Edgar G. Ulmer (1949) USA - Swashbuckler
They Live by Night / Nicholas Ray (1949) USA - Romantic Noir
On the Town / Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (1949) Ó USA - Musical
Reign of Terror / Anthony Mann (1949) USA - Historical Noir
The Sands of Iwo Jima / Allan Dwan (1949) USA - Recruitment Film
Criss Cross / Robert Siodmak (1949) USA - L.A. Noir
Orpheus / Jean Cocteau (1949) France - Surreal Fantasy
Kind Hearts and Coronets / Robert Hamer (1949) Britain - Black Comedy
Diary of a Country Priest / Robert Bresson (1950) France - Drama
Gone to Earth / Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (1950) Ó Britain - Romantic Drama
Wagon Master / John Ford (195) USA - Mormon Western
La Ronde / Max Ophuls (1950) France - Romantic Fantasy
In a Lonely Place / Nicholas Ray (1950) USA - Neurotic Drama
Stars in My Crown / Jacques Tourneur (1950) USA - Spiritual Drama
Singin’ in the Rain / Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (1951) Ó USA - Musical
Strangers on a Train / Alfred Hitchcock (1951) USA - Suspense
The River / Jean Renoir (1951) Ó India - Childhood Fantasy
A Place in the Sun / George Stevens (1951) USA - Romantic Melodrama
Europa ‘51 / Roberto Rossellini (1951) Italy - Melodrama
Captain Horatio Hornblower / Raoul Walsh (1951) USA - Seafaring Epic
The Thing / Christian Nyby (1951) USA - Horror
The Prowler / Joseph Losey (1951) USA - Drama
The Bullfighter and the Lady / Budd Boetticher (1951) USA - Drama
The First Legion / Douglas Sirk (1951) USA - Jesuit Black Comedy
On Dangerous Ground / Nicholas Ray (1951) USA - Noir
The Big Carnival / Billy Wilder (1951) USA - Black Comedy
The Golden Coach / Jean Renoir (1952) France - Theater on Film
The Marrying Kind / George Cukor (1952) USA - Romantic Drama
Son of Paleface / Frank Tashlin (1952) Ó USA - Western Comedy
Ikuru / Akira Kurosawa (1952) Japan - Drama
Bend of the River / Anthony Mann (1952) USA - Western
The Bad and the Beautiful / Vincente Minnelli (1952) USA - Melodrama
The Wages of Fear / Henri-Georges Clouzet (1952) France - Suspense
Othello / Orson Welles (1952) Shakespearian Drama
Pat and Mike / George Cukor (1952) USA - Romantic Comedy
Park Row / Samuel Fuller (1952) USA - Newspaper Drama
El: This Strange Passion / Luis Bunuel (1953) Mexico - Black Comedy
The Band Wagon / Vincente Minnelli (1953) Ó USA - Musical
The Naked Spur / Anthony Mann 91953) Ó USA - Western
Mr. Hulot’s Holiday / Jacques Tati (1953) Ó France - Comedy
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes / Howard Hawks (1953) USA - Musical
The War of the Worlds / Byron Haskin (1953) Ó USA - Sci-Fi
I Vitelloni / Federico Fellini (1953) Italy - Neorealist Comedy
Sawdust and Tinsel / Ingmar Bergman (1953) Sweden - Drama
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T / Roy Rowland (1953) USA - Musical Fantasy
Rear Window / Alfred Hitchcock (1954) USA - Self-Reflexive Cinema
The Earrings of Madame de… / Max Ophuls (1954) France - Romantic Drama
Rebel Without a Cause / Nicholas Ray (1954) Ó¸ USA - Teen Drama
A Star is Born / George Cukor (1954) Ó¸ USA - Musical
Johnny Guitar / Nicholas Ray (1954) Ó USA - Offbeat Western
Riot in Cell Block 11 / Don Siegel (154) USA - Prison Drama
Sabrina / Billy Wilder (1954) USA - Romantic Comedy
Silver Lode / Allan Dwan (1954) USA - Blacklist Western
The Night of the Hunter / Charles Laughton (1955) USA - Surreal Fantasy
Lola Montes / Max Ophuls (1955) Ó¸ France - Romantic Tragedy
Kiss Me Deadly / Robert Aldrich (1955) USA - Tough Noir
It’s Always Fair Weather / Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (1955) Ó¸ USA - Downbeat M-G-M Musical
Bob le Flambeur / Jean-Pierre Melville (1955) France - Noir
The Cobweb / Vincente Minnelli (1955) Ó¸ USA - Psychodrama
The Far Country / Anthony Mann (1955) USA - Western
A Man Escaped / Robert Bresson (1956) France - Drama
Invasion of the Body Snatchers / Don Siegel (1956) ¸ USA - Sci-Fi ·Kanal / Andrjez Wajda (1956) Poland - Claustrophobic War Drama
Seven Men From Now / Budd Boetticher (1956) USA - Western
The Girl Can’t Help It! / Frank Tashlin (1956) Ó¸ USA - The 1^st Rock Musical
Attack! / Robert Aldrich (1956) USA - Combat Film
Baby Doll / Elia Kazan (1956) USA - Melodrama
The Indian Fighter / Andre de Toth (1956) Ó¸ USA - Western
The Mystery of Picasso / Henri-Georges Clouzet (1956) Ó¸ France - Documentary
Il Grido / Michelangelo Antonioni (1957) Italy - Melodrama
The Pajama Game / Stanley Donen & George Abbott (1957) Ó USA - Marxist Musical
Men in War / Anthony Mann (1957) USA -War
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? / Frank Tashlin (1957) Ó¸ USA - Satire
The Wings of Eagles / John Ford (1957) Ó USA - Drama
The Sweet Smell of Success / Alexander Mackendrick (1957) USA - Golden-Tongued Drama
The Tall T / Budd Boetticher (1957) Ó USA - Western
Paths of Glory / Stanley Kubrick (1957) USA - War
A Face in the Crowd / Elia Kazan (1957) USA - Drama
The Brothers Rico / Phil Karlson (1957) USA - Noir
Man of the West / Anthony Mann (1958) Ó¸ USA - Western
The Tarnished Angels / Douglas Sirk (1958) ¸ USA - Barnstorming Melodrama
Mon Oncle / Jacques Tati (1958) France - Comedy
Bitter Victory / Nicholas Ray (1958) ¸ USA - War
The Lineup / Don Siegel (1958) USA - Noir
The Hidden Fortress / Akira Kurosawa (1958) ¸ USA - Historical Adventure
The Last Hurrah / John Ford (1958) USA - Political Drama
Imitation of Life / Douglas Sirk (1959) Ó USA - High-Gloss Melodrama
Ohayo / Yasujiro Ozu (1959) Ó Japan - Family Comedy
Rio Bravo / Howard Hawks (1959) Ó USA - Western
Sleeping Beauty / Clyde Geronimi (1959) Ó¸ USA - Animation
Eyes Without a Face / Georges Franju (1959) France - Horror
Nazarin / Luis Bunuel (1959) Mexico - Surrealist Comedy
Breathless / Jean Luc-Godard (1959) France - New Wave Classic
The 400 Blows / Francois Truffaut (1959) ¸ France - Childhood Drama
Ride Lonesome / Budd Boetticher (1959) Ó¸ USA - Western
The Diary of Anne Frank / George Stevens (1959) ¸ USA - Drama
A Bucket of Blood / Roger Corman (1959) USA - Black Comedy
Les Bonnes Femmes / Claude Chabrol (1960) France - Suspense Melodrama
Exodus / Otto Preminger (1960) Ó¸ USA - Epic
Psycho / Alfred Hitchcock (1960) USA - Black Comedy
Peeping Tom / Michael Powell (1960) Ó Britain - Horror Drama
L’Avventura / Michelangelo Antonioni (1960) Italy - Melodrama
Generale Della Rovere / Vittorio DeSica (1960) Italy - War
The Apartment / Billy Wilder (1960) ¸ USA - Tragicomedy
Cruel Story of Youth / Nagisa Oshima (1960) Ó¸ Japan - Teen Drama
Home From the Hill / Vincente Minnelli (1960) Ó¸ USA - Melodrama
Wild River / Elia Kazan (1959) Ó¸ USA - Drama
Hiroshima Mon Amour / Alain Resnais (1959) France - Drama
Viridiana / Luis Bunuel (1961) Mexico - Anti-Clerical Black Comedy
El Cid / Anthony Mann (1961) Ó¸ USA - Epic
Bachelor Flat / Frank Tashlin Ó¸ (1961) USA - Comedy
The Ladies’ Man / Jerry Lewis (1961) Ó USA - Comedy
Breakfast at Tiffany’s / Blake Edwards (1961) Ó USA - Romantic Drama
Barabbas / Richard Fleischer (1961) Ó¸ USA - Biblical Epic
The Intruder / Roger Corman (1961) USA - Social Drama
La Notte / Michelangelo Antonioni (1961) Italy - Melodrama
Black Sunday / Mario Bava (1961) Italy - Horror
Hatari! / Howard Hawks (1961) Ó USA - Adventure Comedy
Splendor in the Grass / Elia Kazan (1961) Ó USA - Romantic Melodrama
Yojimbo / Akira Kurosawa (1961) ¸ Japan - Samurai Epic
Eva / Joseph Losey (1962) Britain - Romantic Drama
The Exterminating Angel / Luis Bunuel (1962) Mexico - Surreal Comedy
High and Low / Akira Kurosawa (1962) ¸ Japan - Noir
Cleo From 5 to 7 / Agnes Varda (1962) France - Drama
Two Weeks in Another Town / Vincente Minnelli (1962) Ó¸ USA - Melodrama
The Counterfeit Traitor / George Seaton (1962) Ó War Drama
Naked Gals of the Golden West / Russ Meyer (1962) Ó USA - Nudie
The Leopard / Luchino Visconti (1963) Ó¸ Italy - Historical Epic
The Birds / Alfred Hitchcock (1963) Ó USA - Societal Contempt
An Actor’s Revenge / Kon Ichikawa (1963) Ó¸ Japan - Costume Drama
The Nutty Professor / Jerry Lewis (1963) Ó USA - Comedy
Contempt / Jean-Luc Godard (1963) Ó France - Film on Film
Shock Corridor / Samuel Fuller (1963) USA - Beyond Classification
Whip and the Body / Mario Bava (1963) Ó Italy - Horror ·
A Hard Day’s Night / Richard Lester (1964) Britain - Musical
Red Desert / Michelangelo Antonioni (1964) Ó Italy - Melodrama
The Masque of the Red Death / Roger Corman (1964) Ó¸ USA - Horror
Sans Soleil / Chris Marker (1965) Ó France - Documentary
The Sargossa Manuscript / Wojciech J. Has (1965) Epic
The Tomb of Ligeia / Roger Corman (1965) Ó¸ USA - Horror
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly / Sergio Leone (1966) Ó¸ Italy - Spaghetti Western
The Gospel According to St. Matthew / Pier Paolo Pasolini (1966) Italy - Biblical Epic ·The Young Girls of Rochefort / Jacques Demy (1967) France - Musical
Stolen Kisses / Francois Truffaut (1968) Ó France - Romantic Comedy
The Producers / Mel Brooks (1968) Ó USA - Comedy
Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Roman Polanski Ó USA - Horror
Cherry…Harry and Raquel / Russ Meyer (1969) Ó USA - Soft-core Porn
This Man Must Die / Claude Chabrol (1969) Ó France - Drama
La Femme Indifele / Claude Chabrol (1969) Ó France - Suspense
Where’s Poppa? / Carl Reiner (1970) USA - Black Comedy ·
The Last Picture Show / Peter Bogdanovich (1971) USA - Drama ·
The Long Goodbye / Robert Altman (1973) Ó¸ USA - Revisionist Noir ·
Mean Streets / Martin Scorsese (1973) Ó USA - Gangster Noir
Turkish Delight / Paul Verhoeven (1973) Ó Denmark - Sexual Politics
Last Tango in Paris / Bernardo Bertolucci (1974) Ó France/Italy - Sexual Politics
The Conversation / Francis Ford Coppola (1974) Ó USA - Paranoid Thriller
Stavisky / Alain Resnais (1974) Ó France - Drama
Shampoo / Hal Ashby (1975) Ó USA - Sex Comedy
Taxi Driver / Martin Scorsese (1976) Ó USA - Realist Fantasy
Heart of Glass / Werner Herzog (1976) Ó Germany - Hypnotic Experiment
Robin and Marian / Richard Lester (1976) Ó USA - Romantic Drama ·
The Gauntlet / Clint Eastwood (1977) Ó¸USA - Action
The American Friend / Wim Wenders (1977) Ó Germany - New Wave Noir
Exorcist II: The Heretic / John Boorman (1977) Ó USA - Style as Subject
The Last Waltz / Martin Scorsese (1978) Ó USA - Rock Documentary
Saint Jack / Peter Bogdanovich (1979) Ó USA - Character Study
Ten / Blake Edwards (1979) Ó¸ USA - “Old Man’s” Movie
Raging Bull / Martin Scorsese (1980) USA - Drama
The Aviator’s Wife / Eric Rohmer (1980) Ó France - Romantic Drama
The Stunt Man / Richard Rush (1980) Ó USA - Metaphysical Drama
Melvin and Howard / Jonathan Demme (1980) Ó USA - Comedy/Drama
Cutter’s Way / Ivan Passer (1981) Ó USA - Political Drama
The Road Warrior / George Miller (1981) Ó¸ Australia - Action
The Woman Next Door / Francois Truffaut (1981) France - Romantic Tragedy
Zelig / Woody Allen (1983) USA - Mockumentary
Three Colors Trilogy / Krzysztof Kieslowski (1984) Ó France - Drama ·
Starman / John Carpenter (1985) Ó¸ USA - Fantasy
Police Story / Jackie Chan (1985) Ó¸ Hong Kong - Action Comedy
‘Round Midnight / Bertrand Tavernier (1985) Ó¸ France - Musical
In a Glass Cage / Agustin Villaronga (1986) Ó Spain - Horror
The Green Ray (Summer) / Eric Rohmer (1986) Ó France - Surreal Romance
Midnight Run / Martin Brest (1986) Ó USA - Buddy Comedy
Wings of Desire / Wim Wenders (1987) Germany - Fantasy
Heartbreak Ridge / Clint Eastwood (1987) Ó USA - Service Comedy
Inner Space / Joe Dante (1987) Ó USA - Sci-Fi Comedy
A Chinese Ghost Story / Ching Siu Tung (1987) Ó Hong Kong - Historical Action Epic
Heathers / Michael Lehmann (1987) Ó USA - Teen Black Comedy
The Last Emperor / Bernardo Bertolucci (1987) Ó¸ Italy/France/China - Historical Epic
Police Story II / Jackie Chan (1988) Ó¸ Hong Kong - Action Comedy
Crimes and Misdemeanors / Woody Allen (1989) Ó USA - Comedy Drama
Street of no Return / Sam Fuller (1989) Ó Germany - Noir
Where the Heart Is / John Boorman (1990) USA - Family Comedy
Gremlins II: The New Batch / Joe Dante (1990) Ó USA - Satire
Terminator Two: Judgment Day/ James Cameron (1991) Ó¸ USA - Action Blockbuster
Bad Lieutenant / Abel Ferrara (1992) Ó USA - Bad Cop. Worse Cop ·
Calendar / Atom Egoyan (1993) Ó Canada - Romantic Drama
The Puppetmaster / Hou Hsiao-Hsien (1993) Ó Hong Kong - Drama
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? / Lasse Hallstrom (1993) USA - Comedy/Drama
Strange Days / Kathryn Bigelow (1995) Ó¸ USA - Action
Lone Star / John Sayles (1996) Ó¸ USA - Drama
In the Company of Men / Neil Labute (1997) Ó USA - Macho Comedy
A Personal Journey Through American Cinema with Martin Scorsese / Martin Scorsese & Michael Wilson (1997) Ó USA - Documentary
The Second Civil War / Joe Dante (1997) USA - Satire
Bulworth / Warren Beatty (1998) Ó USA - Political Satire
I Stand Alone / Gaspar Noe (1998) Ó¸ France - Horror
Flowers of Shanghai / Hou Hsiao-Hsien (1998) Ó Hong Kong - Historical Drama
The General / John Boorman (1998) Ireland - Crime Noir
Fight Club / David Fincher (1999) Ó¸ USA - Metaphysical Satire
Safe / Todd Haynes (1999) Ó USA - Satire
Three Kings / David O. Russell (1999) Ó¸USA - Action Blockbuster
In the Mood for Love / Wong Kar-Wai (2000) Ó Hong Kong - Romantic Melodrama
Sexy Beast / Jonathan Glazer (2000) Ó¸ Britain - Noir
Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire / Kevin Jordan (2000) Ó USA - Romantic Comedy
Time and Tide / Tsui Hark (2000) Ó Hong Kong - Action
Traffic / Steven Soderbergh (2000) Ó USA - Drama
Millennium Mambo / Hou Hsiao-Hsien Ó Taiwan - Melodrama
The Tailor of Panama / John Boorman (2001) Ó¸ Britain - The Real 007
Ghost World / Terry Zwigoff (2001) Ó USA - Black Comedy
Mulholland Drive / David Lynch (2001) Ó USA - Surreal Comedy
The Center of the World / Wayne Wang (2001) Ó USA - The Business of Sex
K-19: The Widowmaker/ Kathryn Bigelow (2002) Ó¸ USA - War Drama
Spider / David Cronenberg (2003) - Ó Psychological Horror
In this World / Michael Winterbottom (2003) Ó¸ Britain - Neorealist Drama
Mystic River / Clint Eastwood (2003) Ó¸ USA - Family Drama
Love Liza / Todd Louso (2003) Ó USA - Dark Comedy
Crimson Gold / Jafar Panahi (2003) Ó Iran - Crime Drama

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