Sentences with phrase «greatest classic films»

MOGAMBO (1953)[TCM GREATEST CLASSIC FILMS COLLECTION: ROMANCE] * / **** Image C + Sound B starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardiner, Grace Kelly, Donald Sinden screenplay by John Lee Mahin, based on a play by Wilson Collison directed by John Ford

NOW, VOYAGER (1942)[TCM GREATEST CLASSIC FILMS COLLECTION: ROMANCE] ** 1/2 / **** Image A - Sound B Extras D starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper screenplay by Casey Robinson, based on the novel by Olive Higgins Prouty directed by Irving Rapper

LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (1957)[TCM GREATEST CLASSIC FILMS COLLECTION: ROMANCE] 1/2 * / **** Image C Sound B starring Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, based on a novel by Claude Anet directed by Billy Wilder

But here is this great classic film that's easy to enjoy and fun to compare to its remake getting more widely seen than its contemporaries and raising some awareness and interest in the eldest chapters of Warner's rich catalog.

Anyway, Psycho's one of the first great classic films I ever saw, and it's still one of my favorite, probably in my top 40 or 50 films of all - time.

Not exact matches

I use the Wizard of Oz — that great book, that classic American film — as one of the sort of parables that helps us sort of know how to work with the enneagram.

There's something so classic and romantic about a drive in and it's great for a date because unlike a movie theatre you can chat to one another throughout the film and get to know each other without being hushed!

The famed theme park is home to every type of ride imaginable, from classic teacups to the horror film - inspired Saw roller - coaster (a great excuse to hold hands in you're scared!)

Everything about this film screams classic Bond and it is by far the greatest spy film ever made and has yet to be topped.

A smart, sharp and outragiously weird crime - thriller that «s loaded with a great sense of classic film noir style, ideas and star - power.

You can't really make this 2D arcade classic much better than it already is, and it is a great title, but it shows it's age, and the fact that it is re-released more than any Star Wars film doesn't help.

This is the BEST James Bond film ever made as it is full of style, amazing action pieces that really dazzle and entertain, Pierce Brosnan is an excellent Bond (wit, humor, action, style, brutality), Xenia Onatopp is the greatest creation of a villain and Bond girl (because her weapon is Bond» worst nightmare), the villain is truly threatening and played very well by Sean Bean, the title song is awesome and classic Bond, the script for this film is VERY well written and witty, etc..

The slapstick and smart comedy in this film is hilarious and makes this film a great memorable example of a classic disney production made after Walt's death.

Like I said, I did enjoy the current retelling of The Great Gatsby, and I do believe it's a bit underrated; however, this is the film version to watch of F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary classic.

[img] http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif [/ img] The Pact feels as if it's been constructed from an infinite number of inspirations stretching from classic ghost story horror cinema to the recent wave of found footage films but at the same time because of such great execution you could never actually call it generic.

The first of two classic films Howard Hawks did with Bogart and Bacall contains great dialogue and great performances.

Although not as great or refined as The Big Lebowski, this film is still a classic of the stoner genre.

One of the greatest films about dystopia / aspiring utopia as well as a classic romance.

Baz Luhrmann hasn't directed a film since 2008's Australia, but, over the past few weeks, rumors have started swirling about Luhrmann taking on F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby.

It would be great if you could do something like post a section listing classic directors and their films, and perhaps point out how these films have influenced or directly inspired films your readers are fans of.

Nashville (1975) is maverick director / producer Robert Altman's classic, multi-level, original, two and a half - hour epic study of American culture, show - business, leadership and politics - and one of the great American films of the 1970s.

The Sting is one of director's George Roy Hill's best films and it remains a classic of the genre due to the fact that it's simple, yet has a very well written script and is supported by a great cast.

The film is very good, great history, very interesting and engaging, special effects and spectacular action scenes, as well as having one of the classic scenes of cinema.

The bit where Guadagnino says that no one complains when we see great versions of classic films really resonates with me, and he's totally right.

If the film failed to live up to expectations (though personally I thought it was OK) then surely the score could not be accused of such a thing; delightfully recalling Bernstein's classic western scores, it features several great themes, some rollicking action music and one chance after another to just have a smile on your face.

Not many will debate against that Woody Harrelson is one of the greatest actors of his time (this year alone he has appeared in a wide variety of films and given a pair of incredible performances in War for the Planet of the Apes and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), but his portrayal of Texan Lyndon B. Johnson in the biopic about the polarizing political figure simply titled LBJ (directed by Rob Reiner of A Few Good Men fame among other widely regarded classics) is a mixed bag.

Genre classics like Ocean's 11, The Italian Job, and The Great Train Robbery ensured that heist films were a viable box office endeavor, and they've been part of the zeitgeist ever since.

One of the great Swedish director Jan Troell's finest films, it boasts a classic performance by Maria Heiskanen as a quietly, heroically suffering wife.

And elsewhere, smaller distributors like Kino Lorber, Olive Films, Flicker Alley, Twilight Time, Cohen Media Group, and Blue Underground, when not giving a necessary makeover to classics already in their impressive libraries, brought under - heralded films by our greatest auteurs and criminally unseen works by cinema's pioneers to home video for the first time.

Additionally, in no particular order, there were vocal supporters of the Ralph Jones «incongruously great score to «Slumber Party Massacre ``; «Phantasm» «s heavily «Exorcist «- indebted score from Fred Myrow and Malcom Seagrave; Danny Elfman «s channelling of Bernard Herrmann for «Nightbreed ``; Wojciech Kilar «s bombastic, often recycled music for «Bram Stoker's Dracula ``; John Harrison's score for Romero's anthology film «Creepshow ``; Richard Band «s better - than - deserved compositions for the terrible «Troll ``; the great Lalo Schifrin «s score for the original «The Amityville Horror ``; a more recent example in Climax Golden Twins» music for Brad Anderson «s now cultish «Session 9 ``; Pino Donaggio's terrific work with de Palma's «Dressed to Kill ``; Gene Moore's classic church organ scares in «Carnival of Souls ``; and while we've featured Bava fils above, we could easily have found room for his father Mario Bava, probably with the funky original music by Libra for his final film «Shock.»

He responded with an enthusiasm that was beyond just fandom: he compared her films to classics like «Picnic at Hanging Rock» and «Scenes from a Marriage,» indoctrinated her second film into the Great Movies collection, and often rewarded her work with four stars.

If Raymond Chandler and Chuck Jones had ever sat down together over a few beers, this is what they might have come up with: a fantastic amalgam of classic private eye mystery and brilliant razzle - dazzle Looney Tunes cartoonery — undoubtedly the greatest animated film noir feature ever made.

The film looks great, and Basil Poledouris's classic score deserves a big sound system.

Other Kurosawa films with strong noir elements, both playing in the Mifune series, are the multiple - viewpoint period murder mystery masterpiece «Rashomon» (1950) and his great dark samurai classic «Yojimbo» (1961).

Bergman's film quickly made its passage into classic status; the 1972 poll of the world's film critics by Sight and Sound, the British film magazine, listed it among the ten greatest films ever made, and it is now considered by many Bergman scholars to be his best.

Roman Holiday is a cinematic treasure, and essential viewing by anyone who loves great romantic comedies, classic films, William Wyler, Gregory Peck, and especially, anyone who loves Audrey Hepburn.

Real - life stuntwoman Zoe Bell (who doubled for Uma Thurman in «Kill Bill» and Lucy Lawless in «Xena: Warrior Princess») and Tracie Thoms (whose role would have been played by Pam Grier or Samuel L. Jackson in any other movie) deliver great performances throughout their half of the film, but it's Kurt Russell who walks away with «Death Proof» as Stuntman Mike, yet another excellent addition to his rogue's gallery of classic characters.

Perhaps the greatest film in a career full of great films, arguably the finest achievement in a rich and magnificent genre, and undoubtedly the best version of one of America's most enduring myths, the film is an undeniable and genuine classic.

A literary adaptation of a coming - of - age story, with links to Charles Dickens» classic «Great Expectations,» the film leaves you with the wish that Adamson would stick to fantasy — at least in that world there's some fun to be found.

We are dedicated to a love of film / television and seek to find the good buried inside (some of) the endless bad or many disregarded, while recognizing what makes a great film a classic.

«The delightful animated film from 1991 plays as classic animation, but if you want to go a level deeper into the story and into the songs and into the emotions, that's what this live - action film delivers: a greater depth of emotions,» says director Bill Condon.

Trust me, it's a great movie, and one you'll be able to see by the end of the year because Sony Pictures Classics picked up the film for domestic distribution.

Based the outstanding novel by William Peter Blatty, which was turned into the classic film directed by William Friedkin, THE EXORCIST has all the potential to be a great TV show, as it can explore the characters over time and have a very slow build up.

If ever there were a test case to suggest that Spielberg would've made a great Bond film, this is it, a breezy existential chase comedy which slices right through the macho posturing, cosmetic jingoism and oleaginous smugness of classic 007.

In the late 1920s, Fritz Lang was the star director of Germany's Ufa Studios, the biggest film studio outside of Hollywood, and one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the world for such ambitious epic visions as Destiny (1921), the Die Nibelungen (1924) films and especially Metropolis (1927), his allegorical science fiction classic that is still considered one of the great films of the silent era.

Sony Masterworks Classic Film Scores In 1972 Charles Gerhardt released his famous Classic Film Score Series featuring the music of some of the greatest composers of the Golden Age of film.

The most underrated facet and best aspect of the Blu - ray revolution is seeing a classic film in a great 1080p transfer.

It's the origin story and I believe it's part of a greater scheme Universal has to remake all those classic horror films of the 40s.

Turner Classic Movies and Fathom Events combine to show the film that topped the American Film Institute's list of 100 all - time greatest comedies in 24 Bay Area theaters on Sunday, June 11, and Wednesday, June 14.

While the film quality isn't the greatest due to the use of digital film, the lack of stars and its classic throwback to the early zombie movies creates a great genre film for both horror fans and those looking for something different.