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George Harrison: Living In The Material World | Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews | Dennis Schwartz | Essential viewing for fans. | A- | long_letter | null | null | false | 15 | 18 | 1 | 2 |
A Place at the Table | Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews | Dennis Schwartz | The pic might lack style to keep it exciting, but its public service message hits on a vital issue that should concern all Americans. | B- | long_letter | null | null | false | 12 | 18 | 1 | 2 |
Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud) | Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews | Dennis Schwartz | Director-writer Louis Malle's first feature at 26 is a stylish French New Wave noir-ish thriller that never satisfies as much as it should. | B | long_letter | null | null | false | 13 | 18 | 1 | 2 |
Rose Marie | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Rose Marie (1936) is the film with the best-remembered pairing of "America's Singing Sweethearts." | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
The Apartment | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | The Apartment (1960) is producer/director Billy Wilder's bittersweet, heart-rending tragi-comedy/drama of a compliant insurance clerk (Lemmon) who secretly lends out his apartment to other company executives for adulterous sexual affairs and liaisons. | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Lost Horizon | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Lost Horizon (1937) is a timeless, widely-acclaimed classic - a romantic fantasy and science-fiction adventure film, produced and directed by Frank Capra for Columbia Pictures. The film was faithfully adapted by screenwriter Robert Riskin | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
The Big Lebowski | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | The Big Lebowski (1998) is a dark, idiosyncratic and quirky comedy/crime caper-thriller involving an intriguing complex case of mistaken identity, deception, double-crosses, and a mysterious kidnapping. It came from the inventive, cultish... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Hud | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Hud (1963) is the story of the title character - a young Texas rancher named Hud Bannon (Paul Newman), the son of moral patriarch, law-abiding cattleman Homer Bannon (Melvyn Douglas) in modern day Texas. His crude nature was described in the film's... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Amadeus | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Amadeus (1984) was director Milos Forman's stunning, opulent fictional biography of musical prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based on the Tony-winning Broadway play... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Pulp Fiction | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Pulp Fiction (1994) brought director Quentin Tarantino, a B-movie fanatic and ex-video store clerk, to mainstream attention with this stylish and inventive episodic thriller about corruption and temptation. It featured guns, femmes fatales, deadly hit-men | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Blue Velvet | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Blue Velvet (1986) is screenwriter and maverick director David Lynch's artistically bizarre cult film. It is an original look at sex, violence, crime and power under the peaceful exterior of small-town Americana in the mid-80s. | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
The Terminator | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | The Terminator (1984), the first of five science-fiction action-thriller films (through 2015), has often been considered by most film reviewers to be a better-crafted film than its popular sequels, with fewer special-effects and pretention. | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Jailhouse Rock | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Jailhouse Rock (1957) is a prison-related, rags-to-riches musical-drama (and biopic parable of a predictable downfall and recovery) from director Richard Thorpe. It was the most influential black-and-white rock musical... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
The Caine Mutiny | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | The Caine Mutiny (1954) is the story of shipboard conflict and a mutiny aboard a WWII naval vessel, and the subsequent court-martial trial of the ship's captain. The film follows in the long tradition of naval mutiny and court-martial films, such as... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Bringing Up Baby | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Bringing Up Baby (1938) is one of versatile director Howard Hawks' greatest screwball comedies and often considered the definitive screwball film. It is also one of the funniest, wackiest and most inspired films of all time with its characteristic... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
The Killing | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | The Killing (1956) is a stylish but stark film noir crime drama, and the definitive heist-caper movie - a story of greed and infidelity. The classic, dark-edged black and white film was 28 year-old writer/director Stanley Kubrick's third film | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | The film opened with a Star Wars-styled text scrolling, about how Austin Powers was frozen in 1967 and defrosted in the 90s to battle his nemesis Dr. Evil. After succeeding and banishing Evil, Powers settled down with his newly-wed wife Vanessa... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Dodsworth | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Dodsworth (1936) is famed German-born director William Wyler's classic romantic drama from Samuel Goldwyn Productions, and distributed by United Artists. Scriptwriter Sidney Howard wrote the screenplay based upon his 1934 stage adaptation of... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Airplane! | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Airplane! (1980) was a trend-setting, zany, hilarious comedy - using as its core material the airplane disaster film as the spoof's stepping stone, borrowing from the subplots of heavy-handed films in the 1970s decade. | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
An American in Paris | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | An American in Paris (1951) is one of the greatest, most elegant, and most celebrated of MGM's 50's musicals, with Gershwin lyrics and musical score (lyrics by Ira and music by composer George from some of their compositions of the 20s and 30s)... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Inherit the Wind | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Inherit the Wind (1960) is an absorbing liberal "message" film that portrays, in partly fictionalized form, the famous and dramatic courtroom "Monkey Trial" battle (in the sultry summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee) | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Annie Hall | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Annie Hall (1977), from director-actor-co-writer Woody Allen, is a quintessential masterpiece of priceless, witty and quotable one-liners within a matured, focused and thoughtful film. It is a bittersweet romantic comedy of modern contemporary love... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Marathon Man | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Marathon Man (1976) is a scary nightmare thriller, best known for the suspenseful pursuit scenes and a truly repellent scene of torture. | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Maytime | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Maytime (1937) is a beautiful, enchanting classic romantic musical from the 1930s. It is the third Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy operetta and often considered the best of their eight pairings. | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
All the King's Men | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | All the King's Men (1949) is the fictionalized account of the rise and fall of a backwoods rebel - a story inspired by the rule (and abuse of power) of Louisiana's colorful state governor and Democratic U.S. Senator, the notorious Huey Pierce Long... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Days of Wine and Roses | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Days of Wine and Roses (1962) is the intense dramatic portrayal of an alcoholic, co-dependent couple. The film's poster describes its intriguing premise: "It is Different. It is Daring. Most of All, in Its Own Terrifying Way, It is a Love Story." | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Pinocchio | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Pinocchio (1940), Disney's second feature-length animated film followed after the success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), and was produced during Disney's heyday from 1937-1942 of animated classics... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Goldfinger | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Goldfinger (1964) is the third entry in the long-running series of Bond films, the first of four films directed by Guy Hamilton, and the first official blockbuster for the franchise.... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Austin Powers in Goldmember | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | The film opened as a spoof of Mission: Impossible - retitled Austinpussy. During the pre-credits sequence "somewhere in Utah," "Austin Powers" parachuted into his driver-less Shaguar, and then ejected himself from the driver's seat... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) is the likeably entertaining, charming and amusing comedy/drama of the friendship and camaraderie shared between the two handsome and humorous buddy leads - legendary, turn-of-the-century Western outlaws... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
The Misfits | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | The Misfits (1961) is a poignant drama about the death of the old West, from director John Huston and screenwriter Arthur Miller (who was briefly married to star Marilyn Monroe from 1956-1960, wrote the film for her, and experienced a disintegrating... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Bonnie and Clyde | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Bonnie and Clyde (1967) is one of the sixties' most talked-about, volatile, controversial crime/gangster films combining comedy, terror, love, and ferocious violence. It was produced by Warner Bros. - the studio responsible for the gangster films... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
The Defiant Ones | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | The Defiant Ones (1958) is a swift and exciting dramatic action-crime film, known for its symbolic and memorable image of two escaped convicts (Joker and Cullen), one white and one black. The two were tied together by 29 inch long shackles... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
The Matrix | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | The Matrix (1999) is a kinetic, action-oriented, dystopian science-fiction virtual reality film that came from the directorial-writing team of the Wachowski Brothers. Their ambitious and inventive virtual-reality flick was their second feature film... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
McCabe & Mrs. Miller | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) was iconoclastic and offbeat director Robert Altman's acclaimed revisionist western (or "anti-western" according to some) about the American frontier. It was the first of his two myth-busting westerns... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
The Bridge on the River Kwai | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), the memorable, epic World War II adventure/action, anti-war drama, was the first of director David Lean's major multi-million dollar, wide-screen super-spectaculars (his later epics included Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Basic Instinct | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Basic Instinct (1992) is a suspenseful, cat-and-mouse erotic thriller with psychosexual overtones. Its director-writer team of Paul Verhoeven (known for earlier films Robocop (1987) and Total Recall (1990) and then Showgirls (1995)) and Joe Eszterhas... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Murder, My Sweet | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Murder, My Sweet (1944) was to be released with the original title of its literary source, writer Raymond Chandler's 1940 novel Farewell, My Lovely, although it was changed so that fans of 30s song-and-dance star Dick Powell... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
To Have and Have Not | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | To Have and Have Not (1944) was director Howard Hawks' wartime adventure masterpiece - a minor film classic loosely based upon part of Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel of the same name. Jules Furthman and William Faulkner partnered their talents | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
The Birth of a Nation | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | A controversial, explicitly racist, but landmark American film masterpiece - these all describe ground-breaking producer/director D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). The domestic melodrama/epic originally premiered with the title... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Broken Blossoms | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Broken Blossoms (1919) is director D. W. Griffith's most tragic, serious, poetic, intricate, and melodramatic film. Griffith, considered the first master of feature film directors, made this powerful screen masterpiece. This silent film tells the story .. | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
A Face in the Crowd | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | A Face in the Crowd (1957) is director Elia Kazan's satirical and powerful socio-political drama that illustrated how a jailed, down-home country boy in the late 1950s could be transformed overnight into a media celebrity on the radio, and later | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
I Remember Mama | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | I Remember Mama (1948) is a sentimental and nostalgic post-war favorite, with DeWitt Bodeen's screenplay loosely based on Kathryn Forbes' book Mama's Bank Account - it was the winner of five Oscar nominations (remarkably, four were for acting roles). | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Beau Geste | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Beau Geste (1939) is director/producer William Wellman's superb, high adventure tale set in the desert - a classic melodramatic, rousing film of the late 30s from Paramount Studios. The film was originally to be directed by Henry Hathaway... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Bambi | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Bambi (1942) is one of the most appealing, gracefully-told, lushly-beautiful, and popular Disney animated film classics. It was based on Austrian writer Felix Salten's 1923 storybook Bambi, A Life in the Woods. | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Terminator 2: Judgment Day | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) is the well-executed, action-packed sequel to the earlier film of the same name. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator (cyborg) character of the first film, The Terminator (1984) told everyone: "I'll be back" - | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Mean Streets | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Mean Streets (1973) is Martin Scorsese's third full-length feature film - and first important film, with energizing early 60s girl-group and hit rock 'n' roll songs. With a script co-written by the director and Mardik Martin, the original film... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Being There | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Being There (1979), subtitled "a story of chance," is a provocative and elegiac black comedy -- a wonderful dramatic yet placid tale or fable that satirized politics, celebrity, media-obsession and television. The subtle film's slogan... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Suddenly, Last Summer | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) is director Joseph L. Mankiewicz' compelling adaptation by Gore Vidal of Tennessee Williams' 1958 Southern drama-one act play. This lurid, somber, ground-breaking and fascinating melodrama concerned terrible secrets... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
It's a Wonderful Life | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | It's A Wonderful Life (1946), originally made for Liberty Films, is one of the most popular and heartwarming films ever made by director Frank Capra. Frank Capra regarded this film as his own personal favorite - it was also James Stewart's favorite | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Blade Runner | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Blade Runner (1982), rising director Ridley Scott's follow-up to his hit Alien (1979), is one of the most popular and influential science-fiction films of all time - and it has become an enduring cult classic favorite. | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Bull Durham | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Bull Durham (1988) is a humorous and intelligent romantic sports comedy-drama about a mediocre Carolina minor leagues baseball team - the Durham Bulls, from first-time director Ron Shelton. It is the quintessential modern sports film about America's... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Black Narcissus | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Black Narcissus (1947) is a provocative, dazzling and rich-colored psychological-religious and sexual drama from the legendary partnership duo of the 'Archers': British director Michael Powell and scriptwriter Emeric Pressburger. | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | The Empire Strikes Back (1980), (aka Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back) is considered to be one of the most appealing and powerful films in the Star Wars saga - with a superior and more complex plotline (with two parallel storylines)... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Freaks | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Freaks (1932) is a shocking, bizarre and unsettling horror film, but a durable cult favorite. Tod Browning directed the unusual, creepy, and gothic horror film with real-life side-show "freaks" - it was one of his best works... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
The Bad and the Beautiful | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) is director Vincente Minnelli's (and producer John Houseman's) quintessential movie about Hollywood and moviemaking. MGM's popular hit, with David Raskin's soundtrack and Robert Surtees' great... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Bananas | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Bananas (1971) is the story of a New Yorker who becomes a South American rebel leader, to impress his political activist love interest Nancy (Louise Lasser). It is typically filled with many of Woody Allen's funny one-liners and gags. | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Ben-Hur | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Ben-Hur (1959) is MGM's three and a half hour, wide-screen epic Technicolor blockbuster - a Biblical tale, subtitled A Tale of the Christ. Director William Wyler's film was a retelling of the spectacular silent film of the same name... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Out of the Past | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Out of the Past (1947), (aka Build My Gallows High, its title in Britain), is one of the greatest, multi-layered film noirs of all time. The downbeat screenplay was based on Geoffrey Homes' (a pseudonym - his real name was Daniel Mainwaring) | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Alice Adams | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Alice Adams (1935) is RKO's touching, effectively poignant portrayal of small-town, mid-Western American pretenses in the early 1900s. The film's screenplay (by Dorothy Yost and Mortimer Offner) was based... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Adam's Rib | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Adam's Rib (1949) is director George Cukor's most famous film of the battle of the sexes - between two married lawyers. The Oscar-nominated screenplay (originally titled Man and Wife) for the sparkling, MGM classic (screwball) comedy... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Apocalypse Now | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Apocalypse Now (1979) is producer/director Francis Ford Coppola's visually beautiful, ground-breaking masterpiece with surrealistic and symbolic sequences detailing the confusion, violence, fear, and nightmarish madness of the Vietnam War. | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Cabaret | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Cabaret (1972) is director/choreographer Bob Fosse's defining, decadent, award-winning musical which popularized the phrase: "Life is a Cabaret." It was only Fosse's second film, but won numerous accolades... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
The Shawshank Redemption | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) is an impressive, engrossing piece of film-making from director/screenwriter Frank Darabont who adapted horror master Stephen King's 1982 novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
The Lost Weekend | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | The Lost Weekend (1945) is a serious, painful and uncompromising, frank look at alcohol addiction that follows almost five days ('one lost weekend') in the life of a chronic, tortured alcoholic, and failed writer. The dark-tempered, melodramatic... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Manhattan | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Manhattan (1979) was an acclaimed, mature, B/W masterpiece enhanced by a George Gershwin score (performed by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta), telling about infidelity, entangling romances and situations... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Metropolis | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Metropolis (1927) is a stylized, visually-compelling, melodramatic silent film set in the dystopic, 21st century city of Metropolis - a dialectical treatise on man vs. machine and class struggle. Austrian director Fritz Lang's German Expressionistic | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
The Killers | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | The Killers (1946), a neglected screen classic from director Robert Siodmak, is an intense, hard-edged, stylish film noir of robbery, unrequited love, brutal betrayal and double-cross. It featured two unknowns: Burt Lancaster in his film debut (at age 32) | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Field of Dreams | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Field of Dreams (1989) is a modern fairy tale celebration of the love of baseball, adapted by screenwriter/director Phil Alden Robinson from Canadian William P. Kinsella's 1982 novel Shoeless Joe. | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Forbidden Planet | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Forbidden Planet (1956) is one of the more influential, classic and ground-breaking science-fiction space-opera adventures ever made - it was the first science-fiction film in color and CinemaScope. | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
The Big Sleep | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | The Big Sleep (1946) is one of Raymond Chandler's best hard-boiled detective mysteries transformed into a film noir, private detective film classic. This successful adaptation of Chandler's 1939 novel was from his first Philip Marlowe novel. | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Bad Day at Black Rock | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) is both a tightly-written, suspenseful, dramatic action film (with film noirish qualities) and a western. On the surface, this American film classic is concerned with the themes of individual integrity... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Badlands | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Badlands (1973) is the remarkable and impressive directorial debut from twenty-nine year old director Terrence Malick (who also scripted and produced the film). | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | The film opened in the year 1967, "Somewhere outside Las Vegas," where bald Dr. Evil (Mike Myers) (modeled after Blofeld in the James Bond films), first seen stroking a white furry cat (named Mr. Bigglesworth)... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Don't Look Now | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Don't Look Now (1973) is British director Nicolas Roeg's haunting and classic "shattering" supernatural thriller (his greatest film), and depiction of grief, based upon the 1971 Daphne du Maurier short story tale. | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Platoon | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Platoon (1986) is a harrowing, visceral, ultra-realistic, gutsy, visually-shattering Vietnam-war film, based on the writer/director's own first-hand knowledge as a Vietnam combat-infantry soldier. The insightful Best Picture-winning war film | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Brief Encounter | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Brief Encounter (1946) is director David Lean's brilliantly-crafted, classic British masterpiece. It is one of the greatest romantic tearjerkers/weepers of all time, with a very downbeat ending. Lean's film is a simple but realistically-honest... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
The Day the Earth Stood Still | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) is one of the most influential, seminal fantasy science fiction films in motion picture history. The counter-revolutionary, big-budget film provided salient social commentary about the madness of Cold War politics... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
In a Lonely Place | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | In a Lonely Place (1950) is maverick director Nicholas Ray's and Columbia Pictures' well-respected, bleak, mature, and dramatic film noir, although it was not a box-office hit and received no Academy Award nominations. | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
The Big Parade | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | The Big Parade (1925) is director/producer King Vidor's most famous, precedent-setting war film from the silent era. It was the first realistic war drama and has served ever since as an archetypal model for all other war films. | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Planet of the Apes | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Planet of the Apes (1968) is a classic, thought-provoking and engrossing science fiction film that was the loosely-adapted film version of Pierre Boule's 1963 science-fiction novel La Planète Des Singes (Monkey Planet). | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |
Toy Story | AMC Filmsite | Tim Dirks | Toy Story (1995) is the first completely computer-generated, animated feature film. The visuals were entirely generated from computers, creating a wonderfully-realistic 3-D world with lighting, shading, and textures... | A | short_letter | null | null | false | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 |