The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Starring Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston and Tim Holt Written by John Huston (screenplay) and B. Traven (novel) Directed by John Huston I felt like I had learned a few things after seeing . One: finding and mining gold is a LOT more difficult than I thought and way … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (#30)
Category: AFI Top 100
The AFI Top 100 Films: Annie Hall (#31)
Annie Hall (1977) Starring Woody Allen and Diane Keaton Written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman Directed by Woody Allen I was surprised by the warmth of Annie Hall, though I've seen enough Woody Allen movies at this point that I shouldn't have been. It has all those things you expect in a Woody Allen … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: Annie Hall (#31)
The AFI Top 100 Films: High Noon (#33)
High Noon (1952) Starring Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly and Lloyd Bridges Written by Carl Foreman (screenplay) and John W. Cunningham (short story) Directed by Fred Zinnemann This is another one of those movies where the behind-the-scenes story is just as good as what you see on the screen. But High Noon is included in this … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: High Noon (#33)
The AFI Top 100 Films: To Kill A Mockingbird (#34)
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) Starring Gregory Peck, Mary Badham and Phillip Alford Written by Horton Foote (screenplay) and Harper Lee (novel) Directed by Robert Mulligan One of the great things about setting out to watch all 100 of the AFI's greatest American films of all time is it gives me an excellent chance to … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: To Kill A Mockingbird (#34)
The AFI Top 100 Films: It Happened One Night (#35)
It Happened One Night (1934) Starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert Written by Robert Riskin (screenplay) and Samuel Hopkins Adams (short story) Directed by Frank Capra One of the most interesting behind-the-scenes tidbits I've discovered about It Happened One Night is just how much its lead actors hated working on the film. Its distributor, Columbia … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: It Happened One Night (#35)
The AFI Top 100 Films: Midnight Cowboy (#36)
Midnight Cowboy (1969) Starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman Written by Waldo Salt (screenplay) and James Leo Herlihy (novel) Directed by John Schlesinger I have to admit it took me a little while to puzzle this one out. At the end of the Midnight Cowboy you get the sense of closure that comes when a … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: Midnight Cowboy (#36)
The AFI Top 100 Films: The Best Years of Our Lives (#37)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Starring Frederic March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell and Teresa Wright Written by Robert E. Sherwood (screenplay) and MacKinlay Kantor (novel) Directed by William Wyler This is a great surprise for a number of reasons. Unlike most of the other films on the Top 100 list, I … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: The Best Years of Our Lives (#37)
The AFI Top 100 Films: Double Indemnity (#38)
Double Indemnity (1944) Starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson Written by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler Directed by Billy Wilder Holy cats, do the two main characters in this movie do terrible things. That's actually what makes it so fascinating -- this is a film noir that's actually more Fargo than The … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: Double Indemnity (#38)
The AFI Top 100 Films: Doctor Zhivago (#39)
Doctor Zhivago (1965) Starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin and Rod Steiger Written by Boris Pasternak (novel) and Robert Bolt (screenplay) Directed by David Lean After watching Doctor Zhivago, I found it easy to imagine why people were freaked out about communism. The movie, adapted from the Russian novel by Boris Pasternak, details the … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: Doctor Zhivago (#39)
The AFI Top 100 Films: North by Northwest (#40)
North by Northwest (1959) Starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason Written by Ernest Lehman Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Cary Grant is Roger O. Thornhill, an advertising executive who has no problem with lying. During a dinner with "friends," he's abducted by two thugs and driven to a grand house in the countryside. … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: North by Northwest (#40)
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