Starring: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George Director: Clint Eastwood A Missouri farmer who has joins the Rebels after Union soldiers murder his family, but finds himself unable to turn himself in and settle down when the war ends, since revenge is still on his mind. A good thing too, since all those who… Continue reading 105 Must Watch Films: The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Starring: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie Director: Robert Altman Card hustling McCabe (Beatty) finds himself in the small mining town of Prebyterian Church (yes, that's the name of the tiny town), and sets himself up as a small time pimp, until he teams up with the business savvy but opium smoking Mrs Miller (Christie), who improves… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: McCabe And Mrs Miller (1971)
Starring: James Woods, Deborah Harry,Sonja Smits Director: David Cronenberg I found this one a bit of a hard watch, and I think that with Cronenberg films, that's kind of the point. Her certainly does shake you up, shock you and make you think. Though perhaps this isn't always a good thing. Known as the "body… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Videodrome (1983)
Starring: Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Ellen Burstyn Director: Darren Aronofsky Dynamic, original, violent and bleak. This film tells the story of four people whose lives are intertwined, who all end up addicted to the drugs that they thought would change their lives for the better. Instead, they are all destroyed. Harry Goldfarb (Leto),… Continue reading 105 Must Watch Films: Requiem For A Dream (2000)
Starring: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers. Director: Mervyn LeRoy One of Warner Brothers early Busby Berkeley films, in which the famed choreographer commodified the female form in a way which is both delightful and put back the cause of feminism by several decades (you know those old scenes… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Golddiggers Of 1933 (1933)
Starring: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland Director: Alan J Pakula When a man goes missing, a small town detective gets on the case to track him down, but his only lead is a prostitute in New York. Things soon get complicated as there is more to the case than meets the eye: a possible conspiracy, and… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Klute (1971)
Starring: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold Director: Vincente Minelli Gigi (Caron) is a pretty young girl who is raised by her Grandmother and Great Aunt to be a flirt and a courtesan in Paris at the turn of the last century. Though trained to be a coquette, she's not all that interested… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Gigi (1958)
Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant Director: Vincente Minelli Gene Kelly had an idea about a balletic dance sequence set to a Gershwin song, and An American In Paris was born. It centres around three friends just after WW2, who are trying to find work and make ends meet in Paris, when two of… Continue reading 105 Must Watch Films: An American In Paris (1951)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis Director: Mike Nichols An aging couple engage in emotional games with a younger couple who are knew to the university where they work. Taylor and Burton, whose real life relationship was famously well known at the time, play the central couple, George and Martha, whose true… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Starring: Julian West, Rena Mandel, Maurice Shutz, Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer A young student of the supernatural Allan Grey finds that he's bitten off more than he can shew when he stays for the night in the eerie town of Courtempierre. On his first night he experiences strange images, disembodied shadows, spirits and other bumps… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Vampyr (1932)
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