All About Eve (1950) Starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter and Celeste Holm Written and Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz There's an awful lot going on in this movie, especially considering the time in which it was made. Just a quick bit of Internet research has uncovered a multitude of perspectives detailing what All About Eve … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: All About Eve (#16)
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The AFI Top 100 Films: The African Queen (#17)
The African Queen (1957) Starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn Written by James Agee & John Huston (screenplay) and C.S. Forester (novel) Directed by John Huston There's really nothing else quite like The African Queen. Set (and filmed!) in Africa, it tells the story of a missionary's sister Rose Sayer (Hepburn) fleeing the region after … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: The African Queen (#17)
The AFI Top 100 Films: Psycho (#18)
Psycho (1960) Starring Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles and John Gavin Written by Joseph Stefano (screenplay) and Robert Bloch (novel) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock There shouldn't be a need to tell you that this review will be discussing spoilers for the movie Psycho, but just in case you weren't expecting it -- this review … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: Psycho (#18)
The AFI Top 100 Films: Chinatown (#19)
Chinatown (1974) Starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston Written by Robert Towne Directed by Roman Polanski Chinatown is a hell of a noir film. Set in the Los Angeles of the 1930s, it uses the acquisition of water by land barons to explore deeper themes of moral bankruptcy and how one man's remorseless … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: Chinatown (#19)
Five Favorite Horror Films
When I was but a wee leveret growing up in the wilds of Baltimore City, I really wasn't able to watch many horror movies. We were a religious household, so anything seen as 'celebrating' the Devil or the occult were strictly off-limits. As is often the case with kids who grow up in oppressively spiritual … Continue reading Five Favorite Horror Films
The AFI Top 100 Films: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (#20)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Starring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher and Will Sampson Written by Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman (screenplay) and Ken Kesey (novel) Directed by Milos FormanJon Ronson (he of The Men Who Stare at Goats fame) submitted a report for NPR's This American Life one week, about a man in England … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (#20)
The AFI Top 100 Films: The Grapes of Wrath (#21)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Starring Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell and John Carradine Written by Nunnally Johnson (screenplay) and John Steinbeck (novel) Directed by John Ford One of the things that's slowly and steadily been removed from our cultural identity is a sense of place. The world has gotten smaller and borders have become a … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: The Grapes of Wrath (#21)
The AFI Top 100 Films: 2001: A Space Odyssey (#22)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood and William Sylvester Written by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke Directed by Stanley Kubrick A tribe of apes scratch out a marginal existence somewhere on prehistoric Earth. They have a bad day; one of their number is killed by a predator, then they are … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: 2001: A Space Odyssey (#22)
The AFI Top 100 Films: Raging Bull (#24)
Raging Bull (1980) Starring Robert de Niro, Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty Written by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin (screenplay) and Jake La Motta (novel) Directed by Martin Scorcese This movie feels like something of an "anti-Rocky", the story of all those fighters that don't manage to stay on top very long or sacrifice something … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: Raging Bull (#24)
The AFI Top 100 Films: The Maltese Falcon (#23)
The Maltese Falcon (1941) Starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor and Sydney Greenstreet Written by John Huston (screenplay) and Dashiell Hammett (novel) Directed by John Huston Chances are when you think about the quintessential film-noir detective, you're thinking about Humphrey Bogart from The Maltese Falcon. On the off chance that you aren't, the person you're thinking … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: The Maltese Falcon (#23)
From the Desk of Jakebe T. Rabbit 