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)
28 Wednesday Dec 2016
Posted in 1930's Cinema, 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Cinema, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family, Film Directors, Film Noir, George Cukor, Greatest, Lists, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Top 100
Tags
A Star Is Born 1954, Adam's Rib, Born Yesterday 1950, Camille, David Copperfield, Dinner At Eight, Gaslight 1944, Holiday, It Should Happen to You, Little Women 1933, My Fair Lady, Sylvia Scarlett, The Marrying Kind, The Philadelphia Story, The Women 1939
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
2. The Marrying Kind (1952)
3. Little Women (1933)
(This is the one with Katharine Hepburn)
4. Les Girls (1957)
5. Camille (1936)
6. A Star Is Born (1954)
(This is the version with Judy Garland)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Adam’s Rib (1949)
2. Holiday (1938)
3. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
4. The Women (1939)
(Not the 2008 version)
5. Gaslight (1944)
(This is the version with Ingrid Bergman)
6. Dinner at Eight (1933)
7. It Should Happen to You (1954)
8. David Copperfield (1935)
9. Born Yesterday (1950)
(Not the 1993 version)
10. My Fair Lady (1964)
06 Tuesday Dec 2016
Posted in 1940's Cinema, 1950's Cinema, 1960's Cinema, American Cinema, American Filmmakers, Cinema, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Film Directors, Film Noir, Greatest, Horror, Lists, Mystery, Thriller, Top 100, William Castle
Tags
13 Frightened Girls, 13 Ghosts 1960, Homicidal, House on Haunted Hill 1959, I Saw What You Did, Macabre, Mr. Sardonicus, Strait-Jacket, The Tingler, When Strangers Marry, Zotz!
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. The Tingler (1959)
2. House on Haunted Hill (1959) (Not the 1999 version)
3. Homicidal (1961)
4. 13 Ghosts (1960) (Not the 2001 version)
5. When Strangers Marry (1944)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
2. Macabre (1958)
3. Strait-Jacket (1964)
4. 13 Frightened Girls (1963)
5. I Saw What You Did (1965)
6. Zotz! (1962)
06 Tuesday Dec 2016
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
2. And God Created Woman (1956)
3. Barbarella (1968)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Spirits of the Dead (1968)
(Segment: Metzengerstein)
22 Tuesday Nov 2016
Tags
Carson City, Crime Wave 1954, Dark Waters, Day of the Outlaw, House of Wax 1953, Man in the Saddle, Pitfall, Ramrod, Springfield Rifle
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Day of the Outlaw (1959)
2. Crime Wave (1954)
3. House of Wax (1953)
4. Pitfall (1948)
5. Ramrod (1947)
6. Dark Waters (1944)
7. Man in the Saddle (1951)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Carson City (1952)
2. Springfield Rifle (1952)
03 Thursday Nov 2016
Posted in 1940's Cinema, British Cinema, Carol Reed, Crime, Drama, English Filmmakers, Film Directors, Film Noir, Greatest, Lists, Mystery, Thriller, Top 100, War
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. The Third Man (1949)
2. The Stars Look Down (1940)
3. Night Train to Munich (1940)
4. Odd Man Out (1947)
5. The Fallen Idol (1948)
28 Friday Oct 2016
Tags
Advise & Consent, Anatomy of a Murder, Angel Face, Bonjour Tristesse, Bunny Lake Is Missing, Daisy Kenyon, Laura, Such Good Friends, The Man with the Golden Arm
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
2. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
3. Daisy Kenyon (1947)
4. Advise & Consent (1962)
5. Angel Face (1953)
6. The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Laura (1944)
2. Such Good Friends (1971)
3. Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
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)
23 Sunday Oct 2016
Tags
A Summer Dress, Criminal Lovers, In the House, Potiche, Ricky, See the Sea, Sitcom, Swimming Pool 2003, The New Girlfriend, Under the Sand, Water Drops on Burning Rocks, X2000 - The Collected Shorts of Francois Ozon, Young & Beautiful
* * * * (Out of * * * *)
1. Young & Beautiful (2013)
2. See the Sea (1997) (Semi-Short Film)
3. The New Girlfriend (2014)
4. A Summer Dress (1996) (Short Film)
5. Swimming Pool (2003)
6. X2000 – The Collected Shorts of Francois Ozon (2001)
7. Ricky (2009)
8. Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000)
9. Criminal Lovers (1999)
10. Sitcom (1998)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
1. Potiche (2010)
2. In the House (2012)
3. Under the Sand (2000)
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)
