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31. Bridge Firmly in the tradition of All Quiet on the Western Front, Bridge follows a group of teenage boys drafted into the Nazi army in the last stages of WWII. These boys are assigned to defend a bridge near their hometown and come face-to-face with the horrors of war. Must have inspired Spielberg's final battle in Saving Private Ryan. more... 32. Persona A powerfully unique cinematic experience, Bergman's Persona delves into the mysteries of human existence and pysche. It skirts pretentiousness and instead, serves the viewer powerful images, portrayed through sound, picture and dialogue. Haunting, unforgettable and demanding. more... 33. Born on the Fourth of July Features a tour de force performance by Tom Cruise as Ron Kovacs, a Vietnam veteran trying to cope with his war injuries as well as the tumultous society around him. Part of Oliver Stone's great trio of Vietnam war movies, which also includes Heaven and Earth and Platoon. more... |
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34. Amadeus The Academy loved it and so did I - go figure! All the technical and expressive elements come together in this great period piece directed by Milos Forman. F. Murray Abraham stars as the court composer Salieri, who guides his confessor through the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. more... 35. Fellini's 8½ Ebert comments, "All of the images [in this movie] come together into one of the most tightly structured films Fellini made. The screenplay is meticulous in its construction--and yet, because the story is about a confused director who has no idea what he wants to do next, 8½ itself is often described as the flailings of a filmmaker without a plan. But 8½ is not a film about a director out of ideas--it is a film filled to bursting with inspiration. Guido is unable to make a film, but Fellini manifestly is not." more... 36. Passion of Joan of Arc Dreyer lends his austere yet brilliant cinematic techniques to the (passion) story of the Maid from Lorraine. Falconetti, in her first and I believe, only silver-screen role, gives perhaps the greatest female performance in cinema history. more... |
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37. A New Hope It has been said, by who I can not remember, that when George Lucas made Star Wars, the movie industry lost one of its greatest directors. Indeed, there is some truth in that statement. Yet, in Star Wars, Lucas created perhaps the most significant and influential pop-culture movies on celluloid (and now in digital). It is genuis on that account alone. more... 38. Judgment at Nuremberg An intellectually demanding movie, Judgment at Nuremberg asks the important questions at the heart of the historical trials: who should be held to account for the Nazi crimes and how should they be punished. Maximillian Schell gives a memorable and powerful performance as the lawyer defending German intellectuals who served the Nazi state. He is caught between his own conscious, the undeniable horrors of the Holocaust and his desire to vindicate the German people from the knowledge of and participation in the crimes of Hitler. more... 39. Elizabeth Cate Blanchette, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, John Gielgud and Richard Attenborough! A beautifully filmed court history of Queen Elizabeth's rise to power with a witty, incisive and simply brilliant script. more... 40. La Dolce Vita A Fellini classic that explores hedonism through the (mis)adventures of a gossip columnist in pursuit of the latest stories. It is my understanding that this movie coined the now infamous term "Paparazzi" that refers to the aggressive press photographers always in pursuit of the rich and famous. more... |
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