04 Sunday Jun 2017
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Point Break (1991)
(Not the 2015 remake)
2. Near Dark (1987)
3. The Weight of Water (2000)
4. K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Blue Steel (1990)
09 Tuesday May 2017
Posted in 1960's Cinema, 1970's Cinema, 1980's Cinema, 1990's Cinema, Adventure, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Bob Rafelson, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, History, Lists, Musical, Romance, Thriller, Top 100
Tags
Black Widow, Blood and Wine, Five Easy Pieces, Head, Man Trouble, Mountains of the Moon, Stay Hungry, The King of Marvin Gardens, The Postman Always Rings Twice 1981
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Five Easy Pieces (1970)
2. Stay Hungry (1976)
3. The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)
4. Mountains of the Moon (1990)
5. Blood and Wine (1996)
6. Head (1968)
7. Black Widow (1987)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Man Trouble (1992)
2. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
29 Saturday Apr 2017
Posted in 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Action, Adventure, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Biography, Cinema, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, History, Lists, Mel Gibson, Top 100, War
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
2. Apocalypto (2006)
3. The Passion of the Christ (2004)
11 Tuesday Apr 2017
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
2. A Kind of Loving (1962)
3. Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
(Not the 2015 version)
4. Billy Liar (1963)
5. Darling (1965)
12 Sunday Mar 2017
Posted in 2000's Cinema, 2010-Present Cinema, Anthology Films, Ben Wheatley, British Cinema, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, English Filmmakers, Film Directors, Greatest, History, Horror, Lists, Romance, Thriller, Top 100
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. A Field in England (2013)
2. Kill List (2011)
3. High-Rise (2015)
4. Sightseers (2012)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)
1. The ABC’s of Death (2012)
(Segment: “U is for Unearthed”)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Down Terrace (2009)
17 Thursday Nov 2016
Tags
Conrack, Edge of the City, Hombre, Hud, Norma Rae, Sounder, Stanley & Iris, The Long Hot Summer, The Molly Maguires, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Sounder (1972)
2. Conrack (1974)
3. Norma Rae (1979)
4. The Molly Maguires (1970)
5. Edge of the City (1957)
6. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
7. Hombre (1967)
8. Hud (1963)
9. The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Stanley & Iris (1990)
23 Sunday Oct 2016
Tags
A Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights), Accattone, Love and Anger, Love Meetings, Mamma Roma, Medea 1969, Notes Towards an African Orestes, Oedipus Rex 1967, Pigsty, Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom, Teorema, The Anger, The Canterbury Tales, The Decameron, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, The Hawks and the Sparrows
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Mamma Roma (1962)
2. The Canterbury Tales (1972)
3. Accattone (1961)
4. A Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights) (1974)
5. The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
6. The Decameron (1971)
7. Teorema (1968)
8. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
9. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
10. Medea (1969)
11. Pigsty (1969)
12. Oedipus Rex (1967)
13. The Anger (1963) (co-directed with Giovannino Guareschi)
(Documentary)
14. Love and Anger (1969)
(Segment: “The sequence of the paper flower”)
15. Love Meetings (1964) (Documentary)
16. Notes Towards an African Orestes (1970) (Documentary)
16 Sunday Oct 2016
Tags
A Letter to Three Wives, All About Eve, House of Strangers, Julius Caesar, No Way Out 1950, People Will Talk, Sleuth 1972, Suddenly Last Summer, The Barefoot Contessa, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. All About Eve (1950)
2. Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
3. Julius Caesar (1953)
4. No Way Out (1950)
(No relation to the 1987 film)
5. The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
6. People Will Talk (1951)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
2. House of Strangers (1949)
3. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
4. Sleuth (1972)
(Not the 2007 version)
12 Wednesday Oct 2016
Tags
A Hard Day's Night, Help!, How I Won the War, Juggernaut, Petulia, Ring-A-Ding Rhythm, Superman II, The Bed-Sitting Room, The Four Musketeers, The Knack ...and How to Get It, The Mouse on the Moon, The Ritz, The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film, The Three Musketeers 1973
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
2. The Ritz (1976)
3. It’s Trad, Dad (a.k.a. Ring-A-Ding Rhythm) (1962)
4. Petulia (1968)
5. The Bed-Sitting Room (1969)
6. The Knack …and How to Get It (1965)
7. How I Won the War (1967)
8. Help! (1965)
9. The Mouse on the Moon (1963)
* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)
1. The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959)
(co-directed with Peter Sellers)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. The Three Musketeers (1973)
2. Superman II (1980)
(The Richard Donner cut is also very good)
3. The Four Musketeers (1974)
05 Wednesday Oct 2016
Posted in 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Film Directors, Greatest, History, Lists, Romance, Science Fiction, Stanley Kramer, Top 100
Tags
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Inherit the Wind, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Judgment at Nuremberg, On the Beach, Ship of Fools, The Defiant Ones
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
2. The Defiant Ones (1958)
3. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Ship of Fools (1965)
2. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
3. Inherit the Wind (1960)
4. On the Beach (1959)
