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Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.
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Watched on Friday May 16, 2025.
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This film took too long to get going. Setting up the story is important but does not need to be sluggish. Once the plot got to the point it got interesting but there were still too many plodding interludes. Because of the good parts and the stellar cast, this films rates four out of five stars.
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Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.
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Watched on Wednesday May 14, 2025.
]]>Movies on this list are at least 2 and a half hours long, i.e. 150 minutes.
- Satantango
- The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Doctor Zhivago
- Lawrence of Arabia
- A age to India
- Ryan's Daughter
- Gone with the Wind
- Seven Samurai
- Ran
...plus 114 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>The constrained role of women in society and culture became an issue of concern and controversy in the 70s. The Equal Rights Amendment was proposed in 1972. Bras were burned. Women wanted career opportunities beyond homemaking, teaching, nursing and performing arts. Granted, there were women working in other fields but they were notable because they were rare.
Movies reflect society so this list might shed light on this watershed, especially when compared to the companion list 'Empowered Women in pre-1970s film'. In my opinion, no film on the post-1970's list is superior to David Lean's 1954 film Hobson's Choice.
- Julia
- The Watermelon Woman
- My Brilliant Career
- Yentl
- Red Sparrow
- Peppermint
- Hanna
- Salt
- Colombiana
- Atomic Blonde
...plus 48 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>The art of fraud knows many names: con artists, confidence games, swindlers, charlatans, shysters, scammers, hucksters, grifters, flim-flam men and impersonators. Films featuring these characters are as old as film making. The movies listed here are some but not all that exist. Suggestions are welcome.
- Ripley
- Saltburn
- Inventing Anna
- Nightmare Alley
- Parasite
- The Handmaiden
- Focus
- The Two Faces of January
- American Hustle
- Now You See Me
...plus 47 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>These are serial killer movies that are not horror movies. Some of the films on this list have been called horror movies by others, e.g. Silence of the Lambs and Psycho. Occasionally scary or suspenseful with some non-gratuitous bloodshed does not equal horror for me, especially when the nasty stuff is mostly off-screen.
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Peeping Tom
- Frenzy
- Psycho
- The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
- The Lodger
- In the Cut
- The Raven
- From Hell
...plus 49 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Sometimes the remake is better. The original film version is given first and then the superior remade version. There may be more than one preceding film. In many cases, though not all, the original was a fine film but the remade version simply outdid it.
There may be a reason that a remade film is not shown here: I maybe liked the earlier version better. Little Women, for example, has been done four times and each version is excellent. I simply prefer the first version from 1933.
- The Front Page
- His Girl Friday
- The Maltese Falcon
- Satan Met a Lady
- The Maltese Falcon
- True Grit
- True Grit
- La Chienne
- Scarlet Street
- Boudu Saved from Drowning
...plus 64 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>The theme of these films is women who take control of their own destinies. The pre-1970 time frame highlights both how times have changed and how they have remained the same.
- Hobson's Choice
Brenda de Banzie as Maggie Hobson
- Little Women
Katharine Hepburn as Jo
- Little Women
June Allyson as Jo
- Gone with the Wind
Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara
- Trouble in Paradise
Kay Francis as Mariette Colet
- Cluny Brown
Jennifer Jones as Cluny Brown
- Ninotchka
Greta Garbo as Ninotchka
- Angel
Marlene Dietrich as Lady Maria Barker
- The African Queen
Katharine Hepburn as Rose Sayer
- Sylvia Scarlett
Katharine Hepburn as Sylvia Scarlett (aka: Sylvester)
...plus 66 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Pandora's Box
Lulu is the ultimate model for the femme fatale.
- Rebecca
Rebecca is the femme fatale who wasn't there. She never appears in the film but her presence is felt in every scene.
- La Chienne
- Scarlet Street
A remake of La Chienne with a bleaker ending.
- Double Indemnity
- Laura
- Detour
- The Killers
- Criss Cross
- Leave Her to Heaven
...plus 84 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- The Crime of Monsieur Lange
- Port of Shadows
- Daybreak
- Zero for Conduct
- Mother Hummingbird
- Gates of the Night
- Au Bonheur des Dames
- The Lower Depths
- They Were Five
- The End of the Day
...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>I watch a lot of movies. If I like a movie I buy it. My library has about 3200 titles. A small number, about 100, keep drawing me back. Either I lack imagination or these are my favorite films.
- Casablanca
- The Lady Eve
- Bicycle Thieves
- Young Frankenstein
- Hobson's Choice
- Battlestar Galactica
This mini-series is a pace holder for the series that ran from 2004 to 2009 because the series is not on Letterboxd.
- The Shawshank Redemption
- You Can't Take It with You
- Pandora's Box
- Blade Runner
...plus 91 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>These films were made before 1960. Good movies are addictive: you keep wanting more. These were my gateway drugs.
It starts with Disney classics because they are my first memories of movies. They inspired me to reproduce that sense of wonder created by viewing them. The rest of the films on the list also captured my imagination and are worth watching (IMHO).
The focus of this list is old movies because that is what I started watching back in the 50's and 60's.The movies I watched appeared on late night and Saturday TV and Saturday matinees at the theater. My Mom was a cinema fan so this behavior was not discouraged.
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Cinderella
- Pinocchio
- Casablanca
- Gone with the Wind
- Swing Time
- Top Hat
- Shall We Dance
- The Thin Man
- After the Thin Man
...plus 387 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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