CLASSIC FILMS & REMAKES
King Kong, CasaBlanca...need I say more??
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King Kong 2005, PG-13)
(2005 Director: Peter Jackson) MUST SEE!! Won 3 Oscars including Sound NOT ONLY did this screenplay remain true to the original novel by authors Merian C Cooper & Edgar Wallace ... BUT ALSO ... |
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Casablanca 1942, PG)
(1942 release...Director: Michael Curtiz) |
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Bringing Up Baby 1938, Unrated)
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Flash Gordon 1980, PG)
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Gone With the Wind 1939, G)
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Pillow Talk 1959, Unrated)
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Cheaper By the Dozen 1950, Unrated)
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Cheaper by the Dozen 2003, PG)
great steve martin role & loved Tom welling as big bro & Bonnie Hunt!! |
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The Miracle Worker 1962, Unrated)
Directed by Arthur Penn..See this one as a tribute to the late great Anne Bancroft. She was superb as teacher Anne Sullivan. Yes this was an inspiration to me when I saw it as a child. Finally I am becoming a teacher & sign language interpreter. True story of Helen Keller! SUPERB STORY AND AMAZING ACTING PERFORMANCES FROM ALL!! |
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The Miracle Worker 2000, Unrated)
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Miracle on 34th Street 1994, PG)
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Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992, R)
Absolutely hands down the MOST VIVID & CHILLING DRACULA!! (Dracula? Gary Oldham.......) |
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Slaughterhouse Five 1972, R)
(1972 Director: George Roy Hill) Worthwhile watch. Valerue Perrine is outstanding in this film setting Kurt Vonegut's talent onto the silver screen..,.the charater "Billy Pilgrim" (played by beautiful Nordic Michael Sachs) drifts in and out between times/realities..part sci fi...during War time to the present, past...and the planet Tralfamidor!! LOL!! |
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The World According to Garp 1982, R)
WOW! Another novel (John Irving's this time..but why does it feel like almost Kurt Vonnegut??) movie on the screen. Robin Williams as a very loveable character.... |
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A Raisin in the Sun 1961, PG)
(1961 Director: Daniel Petrie) MUST SEE!! MOVING BEYOND WORDS...FAR AHEAD OF THE TIMES!! A very young Sydney Potnier! |
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Some Like It Hot 1959, Unrated)
(1959 Director: Billy Wilder) The best of the best! Clean (mostly) laughs & early drag..but for the CLASSIC reason....to escape the Mob.. Jack Lemmon, Toni Curtis & a must-see Marilyn Monroe performance from a 1959 film!! |
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To Kill A Mockingbird 1962, Unrated)
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Animal Crackers 1930, G) |
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958, Unrated)
(Director: Richard Brooks) Ol blue eyes + vilolet eyes! Roarawe! + a young young...Burl Ives...1958 movie...here is why Liz was such a hearthrob!! |
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Three on a Match 1932, Unrated)
Hmmm a 1932 classic Bette Davis & Humphrey Bogart movie which I have never seen! Wasn't she lovely as a young woman! I applaude her daring I am a huge fan! |
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L.A. Confidential 1997, R)
(1997 Director: Curtis Hanson) James Ellroy's best selling novel apparently \(not surprisingly!) If there were 5 more movies you could see and no more....make sure this is one of them! |
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Flags of Our Fathers 2006, R)
Based on the book by James Bradley (2006 Directors: Clint Eastwood & Steven Spielberg) Wonderful tribute to the men who died & who survived WW II in Japan. Story deals with the ceremonial welcome and publiciity surrounding the "heroes" of that war, cerntering on the lives of a choice few of these fine men. Adam Beach portrays an Indian hero and survivor with fellow solidiers Harry Pepper (The Green Mile, Battlefield Earth), Jamie Bell, (King Kong, Undertow), Jesse Bradford (Heights, Eulogy, Hackers), Neal McDonough (The Guardian, Walking Tall) & Paul Walker. Tale is told from each of the perspectives & their familes......Robert Patrick (Terminator II, Walk the Line) has a short role as Captain in this film. |
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Cape Fear 1991, R)
(1991 Drector: Martin Scorsese) What a thocker! DeNiro & the amazing Nick Nolte (soo versatile!) This is MUST SEE in my movie categories...but hold onto your seat!! The quite young & lovely Juliette Lewis proves what an amazing actress she is in this..and in From Dusk Till Dawn. |
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Quantum of Solace 2008, PG-13)
(Nov 2008 Director: Marc Forster) (Screenplay by Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis & Robert Wade) Loved Daniel Craig in Casino Royale as the "new" Bond...THIS movie openswith A for Action!! |
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The Bells of St. Mary's 1945, Unrated) |
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Miracle on 34th Street 1947, Unrated)
Impossible to beat the best! WONDERFUL! and the little child star Natalie Wood! |
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Say One for Me 1959, Unrated)
Simply delightfully Wonderful! |
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We're No Angels 1955, Unrated)
A wonderful classic with Humphrey Bogart (one of his later films) Look for Peter Ustinov in this film... |
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Lawrence of Arabia 1962, PG)
(1962 Director: David Lean) One of those films which dare to touch on a rare subject, Arabia. Wonderful performances Peter O'Toole & Omar Shariff (Dr. Zhivago) which are legends and support formula acting training (in my humble opinion-imho) |
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The Departed 2006, R)
(Oct 2006 Director: Martin Scorsese) The subject is loyalties, corruption, mob life. Scorsese won his Oscar (Best Director) & this one also took Best Picture. Did I miss any other Oscars? Wonderful cast....interesting story set in Boston (good accents)....Sort of a little more fun tale of local corruption than your average mob movie. More heart in a word. Casts the wonderful Jack Nicholson as the amazing convincing Kingpen hardened yet in some ways still human! |
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Licence To Kill 1989, PG)
Timothy Dalton made an excellent Bond...Hmmmm....one wonders why? |
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The Deer Hunter 1978, R)
(1978 Director: Michael Cimino) |
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The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc) 1928, Unrated)
(1928 French Director: ) Silent French film Renee Maria Falconetti 'stars as Joan D'Arc |
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Absence of Malice 1981, PG)
2 supreme lead actor heavyweights turn in an excellent performance. |
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Cyrano De Bergerac 1990, PG) |
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Public Enemies 2009, R)
Would be hard to improve on the Faye Dunaway & Warren Beatty Bonnie & Clyde. |
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Poltergeist 2011, Unrated)
(12/31/09 RELEASE...Director: Vadim Perelman) LOVED the original...NEVER saw the TV series though..but am interested in seeing what would be done in a remake (new special effects, i assume?) OOOH....spooky..scheduled for a New Year's Eve release?? |
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Batman 1989, PG-13)
(1989 Director: Tim Burton) Ahhhhhhhhhh Fine Batman movie stars Michael Keaton (as Bruce Wayne) v. his adversary the Joker (Jack Nicholson). Kim Basinger co-stars for some eye candy donning some rather large spectacles in some scenes at The Daily Planet (newspaper) where the 2 of them work together. One of my personal favorites, Pat Hingle stars as the Mayor of Gotham City. My only criticism? Michael is NOT Val Kilmer....& to me possibly, I am only saying possibly seemed a wee tad bit um....UI but since he was starring opposite the Kingpen himself (Jack Nicholson-The Departed) should it come as any surprise? I just also recognized NIcholson's trademark comment (or perhaps first coined it in Batman) comment repeated again and again and again in film after film...."Nice outfit!". Hmmm good line by the way--would be NICE if more men had at least ONE automatic "line" in their reperatoire--"Nice outfit," certainly gets 4 stars from me also as an excellent critique commentatry (in a positive tone yet) Jack Palance also co-stars as an early victim of The Joker's The Joker displays some wonderfully diabolic laughter as his bandages come off following his plastic surgery (repairing his face post-accident trauma). Alfred is played by Michael Gough. |
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948, Unrated) |
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The Big Country 1958, Unrated)
(1958 Director: William Wyler) This film was made even before I was born...and I like the freedom some old (classic) movies have conjoining the likes of Gregory Peck, an ex-ship captain, with rancher hands (including Charlton Heston) in a film where independent seems to poke the eye of the typical Spaghetti western. |
