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Knute Rockne All American (Bacon, 1940) :star: :star: 100 Quotes - Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper. What a great line. Reagan was quite good in this, did a bang up job delivering this heart-tugger. Really liked the first half of the movie as...

Soylent Green (Fleischer, 1973) :star: :star: ½ 100 Quotes - Soylent Green is people! The quote pretty much spoils the movie. We're left with a good supporting performance from Edward G. Robinson, a performance I liked from Charlon Heston, and a cheesy, 70s retro look for the 21st...

Adam - I'm now done the 100 Songs list. Hair (Forman, 1979) :star: :star: :star: 100 Songs - Aquarius Country boy John Savage is drafted and heads for New York to report for service. Has a couple of days to spare, and hangs with Treat Williams a group of hippies. During which time...

The Big Broadcast of 1938 (Leisen, 1938) :star: ½ 100 Songs - Thanks for the Memory Series of comedy sketches and songs, loosely tied together by a silly script - a race by two ocean liners across the Atlantic. Stars W.C. Fields, and Bob Hope in his first full length film. The...

The Sandpiper (Minnelli, 1965) :star: :star: ½ 100 Songs - The Shadow of Your Smile Melodrama I liked more than I thought I would. Corny, sappy, dragged at times but I still liked it. I think Minnelli's very good with melodramas, showcases Taylor and Burton at the height of their fame...

You guys think you have problems with netflix, check this out. zip.ca is Canada's version of netflix, the big player up here. End of February, they will change their monthly plans introducing a cap on the number of rentals you get each month.The most popular plan is 4 movies out at a time...

If you're looking for a film that shows a politician in a positive light, one portraying a politician as a saint would serve nicely I think. MichealBa - most political dramas need conflict to make an interesting film for the viewer. People have listed films where the 'hero' of the film is...

Somewhat over-flattering is a bit of an understatement. Gandhi is showed very positively, heroically even - as the politician who wrestled Indian independence away from the British.

Gandhi (1982) The Candidate (1972) Disraeli (1929)

South Sea island of Manakura in The Hurricane (1937) Shangri-La in Lost Horizon (1937). Mopu in Black Narcissus (1947)... setting for the movie is a fictional place at the base of the Himalayas, not sure if it is specified as a country. Munchkinland and Oz in the Wizard of Oz

Adam - Inherit the Wind... I liked the film a lot, too. I read in a Gene Kelly biography that Tracy and March, two proud old pros, didn't get along too well on set, forever trying to steal scenes from each other in the courtroom. If I remember correctly, when Tracy was speaking, March...

Matthew - I didn't care for The Paleface much either, Bob Hope's humour doesn't get me laughing much. I remember reading a synopsis at All Movie Guide or the like that the movie's noteworthy for being the Blazing Saddles of its day. I liked the song Buttons and Bows, I don't have a problem...

Bright Eyes (Butler, 1934) :star: :star: AFI 100 songs - "On the Good Ship Lollipop" Orphaned Shirley Temple is caught up in a tug of war over who gets to adopt her. A rich old curmudgeon, and her Godfather, a poor pilot. Temple is quite cute, and quite a performer at age 5. I...

Kobayashi's epic The Human Condition I, II, III gives an account of Japan's occupation in Manchuria from (if I remember correctly) 1943 through the Soviet victory and imprisonment of Japanese troops. It's a clear condemnation of Japanese fascism through its brutality / enslavement of the...

Quotes - have 5 to see A League of Their Own (1992) Beyond the Forest (1949) Soylent Green (1973) Knute Rockne, All American (1940) Dead Poets Society (1989)

Question (I didn't watch the broadcast): Is The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes referring to the 1939 movie instead of 1929 listed on the AFI website? I can't find a movie in imdb in 1929 titled The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

George - I watched 8 Mile in working towards completing the Songs challenge, wasn't looking forward to it, not a fan of rap. Nice surprise, really liked it.

Adam - I'll take up your invitation to complete the 100 Songs challenge, and the soon to be announced Quotes challenge I've finished Films, Thrills, Passions, Laughs, Heroes/Villians. I have 5 more Songs to finish that list: The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938) Bright Eyes (1934) The...

Also the singing in most musicals. And, Fred and Ginger's tapping was dubbed after the fact. Hermes Pan did the 'dubbing' (tapping) for Ginger's dancing in the films he worked on with them.

Hi Russell - Sweet Sweetback is the grandaddy of all the Blaxpoitation films, historically important for film buffs for that reason I think. But I didn't enjoy it much either - it's production values are bargain basement. An underground low low budget effort that has a cheesy awfulness that...

Blaxploitation essentials: Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song Dolemite

I've seen all 10 of Fred and Ginger's films, I'm very happy with this set, 5 of their 6 films I really like. If it were a box set of 6 which included the Gay Divorcee it would have been perfect. If they release a set of their other 5 titles, I won't be buying it.

The Towering Inferno The Naked Jungle - ANTS! Charleton Heston! Titanic, and, A Night to Remember A couple of oldies: San Francisco In Old Chicago

Till the Clouds Roll By (medley from Showboat; Who) Rocky Horror Picture Show (The Time Warp)

Hairspray is a send-up of early 60s teen films. Along the same lines, Young Frankenstein for classic 30s horror Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, etc.

Silent Movie except for a "Non!" is silent, and tries for the slapstick style of a 1920s Buster Keaton comedy.

Annie Get Your Gun (There's No Business Like Show Business) Guys and Dolls (Luck Be a Lady, Sit Down Your Rockin' the Boat) There's a big number in Duck Soup, I think its Freedonia's Going To War

Can anyone comment on her post 1950 films? I liked her very much in her early films - Little Foxes, Pride of the Yankees, Mrs. Miniver, Shadow of a Doubt, Best Years of Our Lives. However, I was disappointed with her performance in The Men (1950) playing the sweetheart to crippled war...

Black God, White Devil Always thought this Brazilian film had the feel of a Western: desert / ranch land setting, outlaws with bandoliers across their chest.

Olivia de Havilland Maggie Smith Liv Ullman Max von Sydow ...would all be on my list