Casablanca: As Time Goes By,It Is Still Timeless....A classic from the golden-age of Hollywood

Rating: Null/10 (21 September 2006)

For more than 60 years later,movie fans are still falling on love with the greatest American romance film ever made. It was this movie by the way that cemented Humphrey Bogart's fame as a maverick Hollywood icon and in the history of motion pictures itself.
"Casablanca": Is there any other movie more Americans can agree on? In one perspective,you'll always find dissenters with "Citizen Kane", "Gone With The Wind","The Wizard Of Oz",and even other films like "It's A Wonderful Life","The Best Years Of Our Lives",not to mention two other Humphrey Bogart classics like "Key Largo",and also "The African Queen",not to mention the other Hollywood epics of their day. Somehow for those who have never seen "Casablanca",or those who have never heard of Humphrey Bogart or for that manner his co-star Ingrid Bergman,not only love the movie,but love it more as--what's the phrase--as time goes by. Do not experience this movie on either Video or for that manner DVD or for other reasons do not see this on television either. The best way to experience this Humphrey Bogart masterpiece is on a projected screen in a movie house with a capacity audience. It was meant to be seen on the big screen. It sometimes plays in selected art-houses where it shown as a part of a midnight screenings,or as part of selected screenings at some prestigious colleges and universities.
"Casablanca",was one of the top grossing films of 1942,and was the winner of three academy awards including Best Picture,Best Director and Best Screenplay,and it is Number 2,after Orson Welles'"Citizen Kane",on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest movies of all time. "Casablanca" has achieved an iconic status way out of proportions to its celluloid scale:a wartime melodrama(that takes place in the Middle East,since this movie was released at the height of World War II),at a running time of 102 minutes long,and was made for less than one million dollars on a essentially one set.
Those famous lines!("Here's looking at you,kid.") Those stars! (Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman at their most magnificent and their most magnetic.)That style!(Trench coats on a airfield tarmac.) That song! Will always go down in music history("You must remember this,a kiss is still a kiss,a sigh is just a sigh.........." Basically,you know the rest of it.
It was a perfect product of the Hollywood factory at its golden peak during the early 1940's and in the midst of World War II. A film that was brilliantly cast,with skill and dignity and it shows in some of the most memorable of all characters. This was a film that came from the golden-age of the talent pool from the studios of Warner Bors. Pictures. This was when Warner Bors. was a pioneering force in Hollywood and a major perennial powerhouse. "Casablanca" is not only the best film to come out of a major Hollywood studio,but also to point out it is a work of art and sheer genius. A melodrama-adventure spectacle that is flawlessly directed(by Michael Curtiz),subtly played,and excellent performances throughout. It is a cinematic classic to behold. See it sometime at a nearby theater. Do not catch this film on neither video or playing on television. Experience it at the movies.