Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden Written by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern (screenplay) and Peter George (novel) Directed by Stanley Kubrick The 60's were a pretty scary time. There was an unhealthy obsession with awful colors in our … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (#26)
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The AFI Top 100 Films: Bonnie and Clyde (#27)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Starring Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman and Estelle Parsons Written by David Newman and Robert Benton Directed by Arthur Penn Bonnie and Clyde feels like a quintessential 70s movie. It has a complicated, somewhat unlikable set of anti-heroes in Clyde Barrow (Beatty) and Bonnie Parker (Dunaway). It features them doing … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: Bonnie and Clyde (#27)
The AFI Top 100 Films: Apocalypse Now (#28)
Apocalypse Now (1979) Starring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando and Robert Duvall Written by John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola Directed by Francis Ford Coppola Most war movies take great care to show you how disorienting it is to be in the middle of battle, and a lot of these set pieces end up being some … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: Apocalypse Now (#28)
The AFI Top 100 Films: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (#30)
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)
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)
From the Desk of Jakebe T. Rabbit 