Starring: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepherd Director: Terrence Malick Terrence Malick doesn't make a lot of films, but this one, much like his previous film Badlands, feels so iconically 70's to me, with it's golden colours, imagery of America and it's young female voice over. More like a visual poem than a film, it… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Days Of Heaven (1978)
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105 Must See Films: Secrets & Lies (1996)
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall Director: Mike Leigh A movie about class and race relations in Britain, this film is from acclaimed director Mike Leigh. It follows the story of two women, a successful black woman who is in search of her biological mother, and the woman who gave birth to her, a lower class… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Secrets & Lies (1996)
105 Must See Films: Grave Of The Fireflies (1988)
Starring: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi Director: Isao Takahata Although I loved this film, after it finished I needed a drink! It's very sweet and very sad. The film is about a boy Setsuko and his little sister Seita, at the end of WW2 in Japan. During an air raid their mother is badly injured and… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Grave Of The Fireflies (1988)
105 Must See Films: The Accidental Tourist (1988)
Starring: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis, Bill Pullman Director: Lawrence Kasdan Macon (Hurt) is a travel writer. He writes books about where to go and how to travel seamlessly. But one day he comes home to find that his wife (Turner) wants a divorce, because she is not coping with the death of their… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: The Accidental Tourist (1988)
105 Must See Films: She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
Starring: Tracy Camila Johns, Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell, Spike Lee, Raye Dowell Director: Spike Lee No one makes films like Spike Lee anymore. Which is a real shame. Here he takes on female sexuality in a film that was rated R at the time. Nola Darling (Johns) is a beautiful woman, who knows who… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
105 Must See Films: Five Easy Peices (1970)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black Director: Bob Rafelson Robert (Nicholson) works on doing odd jobs, roving from bars, his home with his girlfriend Rayette (Black) and the beds of other women, never settling anywhere, til his sister lets him know that his father is dying. With his girlfriend tagging along, he heads back to his… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Five Easy Peices (1970)
105 Must See Films: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Starring: Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, Priscilla Lane Director: Frank Capra When Mortimer Brewster (Grant) marries, he takes his bride home to Brooklyn where his two maiden aunts live, but he finds more than he bargained for when he discovers his aunts have been poisoning lonely old men. It only gets more complicated as… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
105 Must See Films: All About Eve (1950)
Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz Margo Channing (Davis) is a famous stage star, who one night is introduced to one of her fans, a shy, innocent girl called Eve (Baxter). She takes the girl under her wing, but soon finds that Eve has bigger plans than her shy demeanor… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: All About Eve (1950)
105 Must Watch Films: Tootsie (1982)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Bill Murray, Teri Garr, Geena Davis Director: Sydney Pollack Dustin Hoffman plays Michael, an out of work actor and coach whose reputation for being difficult means no director will work with him. In desperation, he decides to disguise himself as a woman and get a job on a soap opera in… Continue reading 105 Must Watch Films: Tootsie (1982)
105 Must See Movies: Gaslight (1944)
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotton, Angela Lansbury. Director: George Cukor Tense and well paced psychological thriller about the orphaned niece of a famous singer who marries a man after only knowing him for two weeks, and finds herself slowly going mad in the house that her aunt was murdered in. But is she… Continue reading 105 Must See Movies: Gaslight (1944)
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