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[11 Nov 2009 | 6 Comments | ]

Read a brief introduction to early silent films HERE
Charlie Chaplin was not just a silent movie actor, he was an icon of early cinema. Chaplin was a writer, director, performer, producer, as well as composer, and the co-founder of revolutionary studio United Artists.

He learnt his knack for comedy working in travelling vaudeville shows, performing with musicians, magicians, dancers, comedians, and even animals. His live material would be honed directly for the cinema when he started making films for Keystone Studios in the early 1910s. Early two-reel films, which Chaplin …

Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language, People - Actors, Romance, Silent, Time Period - 1960 to 1979, Time Period - 1980s to Present, Time Period - Pre-1959 »

Isabella Rossellini’s Top 10

[3 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]

ISABELLA ROSSELLINI’S TOP 10 FILMS
“Blue Velvet” actress and Lancome model Isabella Rossellini picks the films that have brought most joy into her heart. Listed here courtesy of Time Out, she explains each of her choices as she presents a diverse and eclectic mix of movies.
Incidentally, Isabella only lists her top 8 films, which appear below.

1. Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959)
She says: “I think Marilyn Monroe was never in sexier form than here in her third-last film playing the uber-zaftig Sugar Kane Kowalczyk. As wonderfully as Orry-Kelly made the gowns …

Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language, Gangster, People - Directors, Silent, Time Period - 1980s to Present, Time Period - Pre-1959, War, Western »

Michael Mann chooses his Top 10

[1 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]

MICHAEL MANN’S TOP 10 FILMS
1. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
2. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925)
3. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
4. Dr Strangelove (Kubrick, 1963)
5. Faust (Murnau, 1926)
6. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
7. My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946)
8. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
9. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
10. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)

Action-Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language, Gangster, Horror, People - Directors, Silent, Time Period - 1960 to 1979, Time Period - 1980s to Present, Time Period - Pre-1959, War, Western »

Joe Dante chooses his Top 10

[31 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]

JOE DANTE’S TOP 10 FILMS
1. Citizen Kane (Welles)
2. City Lights (Chaplin)
3. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
4. Les Enfants du paradis (Carné)
5. The Dead (Brakhage)
6. Rashomon (Kurosawa)
7. Psycho (Hitchcock)
8. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
9. The Searchers (Ford)
10. Once upon a Time in the West (Leone)

Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language, Gangster, People - Directors, Silent, Time Period - 1960 to 1979, Time Period - 1980s to Present, Time Period - Pre-1959 »

Milos Forman chooses his Top 10

[31 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]

MILOS FORMAN’S TOP 10 FILMS

1. Amarcord (Fellini, 1973)
2. American Graffiti (Lucas, 1973)
3. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
4. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
5. The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978)
6. Les Enfants du Paradis (Carné, 1945)
7. Giant (Stevens, 1956)
8. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
9. Miracle in Milan (De Sica, 1951)
10. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)

Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language, Horror, People - Directors, Science-Fiction, Silent, Time Period - 1960 to 1979, Time Period - 1980s to Present, Time Period - Pre-1959 »

John Boorman chooses his Top 10

[31 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]

JOHN BOORMAN’S TOP 10 FILMS
1. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
2. The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1956)
3. 8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963)
4. That Obscure Object of Desire (Buñuel, 1977)
5. Dr Strangelove (Kubrick, 1963)
6. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
7. Sunset Blvd (Wilder, 1950)
8. Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)
9. La Roue (Gance, 1923)
10. The Birth of a Nation (Griffith, 1915)

Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language, Gangster, Musicals, Science-Fiction, Silent, Time Period - 1960 to 1979, Time Period - 1980s to Present, Time Period - Pre-1959, War »

Director Sidney Lumet’s Top 10 Films

[21 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]

The Independent newspaper in the UK asked several directors what their top 10 favourite movies were. The following are the films chosen by Sidney Lumet.

1. The Best Years Of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946) | Region 2 DVD: The Best Years Of Our Lives [DVD] [1946] | Region 1 DVD Best Years of Our Lives [DVD] [1946] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
2. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982) | Fanny And Alexander – Remastered [DVD] [1982]
3. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972) | The Godfather Trilogy: Remastered Collection [DVD] [1972] | The Godfather Trilogy …