IN FRATERNAM MEAM: LET'S TALK HOLLYWOOD AND MOVIES

IN FRATERNAM MEAM

Friday, April 27, 2007

LET'S TALK HOLLYWOOD AND MOVIES

THE VERY BEST "BEST MOVIES" LIST
The finest films of the last 30 years, as selected by three eminent authorities:

1. The National Film Registry
2. The Film Critics of the New York Times
3. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Who is OSCAR, Anyway?
We have all seen the ebullent Academy Award winners cluthching their gold-plated Oscars as they deliver breathless acceptance speeches. But who is OSCAR? The still figure of a man holding a sword and standing atop a reel of film was designed by famed production designer Cedric Gibbons (his credits include A Night at the Opera and An American in Paris). For many years after the 1927 inception of the awards ceremony, the statue was nameless.

Then, as Hollywood legend goes, a secretary working at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences noticed that the statue's face bore a resemblance to her uncle Oscar, and hence the 13 1/2-inc-tall figure was christened.

NOT TO BE MISSED FLICKS 1975 - 2005

1975
Alice Does'nt Live Here Anymore
Barry Lyndon
The Buffalo Creel Flood: An Act of Man
Distant Thunder
The Godfather, Part II
Hearts and Minds
Jaws
Love and Death
Nashville
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Shampoo
The Story of Adele H.

1976
All the President's Men
Chulas Fronteras
Face to Face
Harlan County, USA
The Memory of Justice
Network
The Outlaws Josey Wales
Seven Beauties
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Taxi Driver
To Fly

1977
Annie Hall
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Effi Briest
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Handle with Care
Killer of Sheep
The Late Show
The Man Who Loved Women
Rocky
Star Wars
Stroszek
That Obscure Object of Desire

1978
California Suite
Days of Heaven
The Deer Hunter
Eraserhead
A Geisha
Movie Movie
National Lampoon's Animal House
Perceval le Gallois
Pretty Baby
Powers of Ten
A Slave of Love
Straight Time
Violette

1979
Alien
All That Jazz
Apocalypse Now
The Black Stallion
Breaking Away
Escape from Alcatraz
Fedora
Hair
Kramer vs. Kramer
Love on the Run
Manhattan
The Marriage of Maria Braun
10
The Tree of Wooden Clogs

1980
Airplane
Atlantic City
Dressed to Kill
Every Man for Himself
Garlic as Good as Ten Mothers
Kramer vs. Kramer
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
Melvin and Howard
Mon Oncle' d'Amerique
Ordinary People
Raging Bull
Return of Secaucus 7
Stardust Memories
The Third Generation
Wise Blood

1981
Arthur
Body Heat
Four Friends
Pixote
Raiders of Lost Ark
Reds
Stevie
True Confessions
The Woman Next Door

1982
Le Beau Mariage
Blade Runner
Chan Is Missing
Chariots of Fire
E.T. the Extra-Terrestial
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fitzcarraldo
Gregory's Girl
Lola
Missing
Smash Palace
Tootsie
Victor/Victoria

1983
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Betrayal
The Big Chill
El Norte
Fanny and Alexander
Gandhi
Heart Like a Wheel
The King of Comedy
Koyaanisqatsi
Local Hero
The Right Stuff
Tender Mercies
Zelig

1984
The Bostonians
Broadway Danny Rose
Entre Nous
The Family Game
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
A Love in Germany
A Passafe to India
Places in the Heart
Stranger Than Paradise
Terms of Endearment
This is Spinal Tap

1985
Amadeus
Desperately Seeking Susan
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Prizzi's Honor
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Ran
Secret Honor
7 Up/28 Up
Shoah
The Trip to Bountiful

1986
Blue Velvet
The Color of Money
Down by Law
Hannah and Her Sisters
Hoosiers
Menage
My Beautiful Laundrette
Out of Africa
Platoon
A Room with a View
Sherman's March
Smooth Talk
Summer

1987
Barfly
The Dead
Empire of the Sun
Full Metal Jacket
House of Games
Housekeeping
Radio Days
Tampopo
Tin Men
The Untouchable

1988
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Hotel Terminus: The LIfe and Times of Kalus Barbie
The Last Emperor
Married to the Mob
Missippi Burning
Patty Hearst
A Taxing Woman
The Thin Red Line
Things Change
Tin Toy
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Working Girls

1989
Chocolat
Crimes dn Misdemeanors
Do the Right Thing
Enemies, A Love Story
High Hopes
Little Vera
Mystery Train
Rain Man
Roger & Me
Sex, Lies and Videotape
True Love

1990
Akira Kurosawa's Dream
Alice
Dick Tracey
Driving Miss Daisy
Goodfellas
The Grifters
Metropolitan
Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
My 20the Century
Reversal of Fortune
Sweetie

1991
Barton Fink
Beauty and the Beast
Boyz in the Hood
Cape Fear
Dances with Wolves
Daughters of the Dust
The Fisher King
Life is Sweet
My Own Private Idaho
Silence of the Lambs
Thelma and Louise

1992
The Crying Game
A Few Good Men
Gas Food Lodging
Howards End
Malcolm X
The Match Factory Girl
One False Move
Reservoir Dogs
Savage Nights
The Silence of the Lambs
The Story of Qui Ju
Unforgiven

1993
Belle Epoque
Farewell My Concubine
The Joy Luck Club
Much Ado About Nothing
The Piano
Remains of the Day
Schindler's List

1994
Crumb
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Hoop Dreams
I Like It Like That
The Madness of King George
Nobody's Fool
Il Postino (The Postman)
Pulp Fiction
Red
Vanya on 42nd Street

1995
Apollo 13
Before the Rain
Dead Man Walking
Forrest Gump
Lamerica
Leaving Las Vegas
Living in Oblivion
Persuasion
To Die For
Toy Story

1996
Breaking the Waves
Braveheart
The Crucible
The English Patient
Fargo
Flirting with Disaster
Jerry Maguire
Lone Star
Looking for Richard
The People vs. Larry Flynt
Secrets and Lies

1997
The Apostle
Boogie Nights
Deconstructing Harry
In the Company of Men
L.A. Confidential
The Pillow Book
Ponetter
The Sweet Hereafter
Titanic
Ulee's Gold

1998
The Buthcer Boy
The Celebration
The General
Happiness
Henry Fool
Life is Beautiful
The Opposite of Sex
Saving Private Ryan
Shakespeare in Love
A Simple Plan
The Thin Red Line

1999
All About My Mother (Spain)
American Movie
Being John Malkovich
Boys Don't Cry
The Dreamlife of Angles (France)
Eyes Wide Shut
The Insider
the Straight Story
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Topsy-Turvy

2000
American Beauty
Beautiful People
Before Night Falls
Calle 54
Chicken Run
The Decalogeu 1987 (POland)
Hamlet
Traffic
Yi Yi: A One and a Two (China)
You Can Count on Me

2001
A.I.
Amores Perros (Mexico)
Gladiator
The Gleamers and I (France)
Gasford Park
In The Bedroom
The Man Who Wasn't There
Monsters, Inc.
Sexy Beast
Shrek

2002
A Beaufitul Mind
Chicago
Far From Heaven
The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)(Inuit)
Gangs of New York
The Hours
The Pianist
Spirited Away (Japan)
Talk to Her (Spain)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (Mexico)

2003
American Splendor
Angels in America
The Barbarian Invasion
Bus 174
Capturing the Friedmans
Chicago
City of God
Elephant
Finding Nemo
The Fog of War
The Good,The Bad,The Ugly
House of Sand and Fog
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Lost in Translation
master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
A Mighty Wind
Mystic River
Pirates of the Caribbean
Raising Victor Vargas
Spellbound
Thirteen
The Triplets of Belleville
21 Grams

2004
Bad Education
Before Sunset
The Big Red One: The Restoration
Blind Shaft
Bright Leaves
Collaterl
The Door on the Floor
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fahrenheit 911
Ghost of the Shell 2: Innocence
Goodbye Dragon Inn
The Incredibles
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Kinsey
Maria Full of Grace
Million Dollar Baby
Moolaade
The Mother
Sideways
Tarnation
Tokyo Godfathers
Time of the Wolf
Vera Drake

2005
The Aristocrats
The Best of Youth
Borkeback Mountain
Cache'
Crash
Darwin's Nightmare
Downfall
Funny Ha-Ha
Grizzly Man
A History of Violence
The Holy Girl
unebug
Kings and Queens
Last Days
Look at Me
Match Point
Munich
Mysterious Skin
The New World
Nine Lives
Princess Raccoon
Regular Lovers
Saraband
The Squid and the Whale
2046
Wallace & Gromit:The Curse of the Were-Rabbitt

(Source: THENEWYORKTIME: PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PRACTICALLY EVERYTHING by: Amy D. Bernstein and Peter W. Bernstein)

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