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Day 86: Best Film That Defined The 1970s
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976) Alan J. Pakula and William Goldman’s adaptation of the story that uncovered the Watergate scandal is still strangely gripping today as much as it was upon first release. It defined the decade by confirming our… Continue reading
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Day 85: Best Film That Defined The 1960s
THE GRADUATE (1967) Mike Nichols’ film of a recent college graduate who is exploited and seduced by an older generation went on to become one of the most popular films of the late 1960s. The Graduate defined this decade by… Continue reading
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Day 84: Best Film That Defined the 1950s
ON THE WATERFRONT (1954) On the Waterfront is seen as Elia Kazan’s personal commentary on his involvement with the HUAC. He was seen by many of his peers as a stool pigeon for the U.S. Government when he testified to… Continue reading
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Day 83: Best Film That Defined The 1940s
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946) William Wyler’s emotionally powerful look at servicemen returning to their lives and loves after World War II is a shining example of how war effects the everyday man. It defined this decade by… Continue reading
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Day 82: Best Film That Defined The 1930s
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934) Frank Capra’s seminal film set the standard for “screwball comedies” and became the blueprint for the “romantic comedy” where the two leads are unlikely paired together, mis-matched under normal conditions. It defined this decade because… Continue reading
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Day 81: Best Ensemble Cast
GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (1992) Rather than going in the direction in the likes of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World or some other large scale cast with a bunch of big names, I decided to go on a much… Continue reading
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Day 80: Most Intense Movie Scene
FIRECRACKERS and a DRUG DEAL in Boogie Nights (1997) While several other movies come to mind, once I started narrowing my list down, this kept making its way to the top. Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson’s ode to the Porn… Continue reading
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Day 79: A Movie That Spoke to a Generation
TOY STORY TRILOGY (1995, 1999, 2010) Toy Story and its sequels, spoke to me in three, very precise ways. The first film spoke to my inner child; my active imagination playing for hours on end with Star Wars figures, Transformers,… Continue reading
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Day 78: A Movie that Needs to be Required Viewing in a High School Classroom
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (2000) Yes, I am rule breaker. For the second time, no doubt. But this was the film that originally inspired me to come up with this category in the first place. So, I’ll justify my own… Continue reading
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Day 77: Favorite Character Actor/Actress
STEVE BUSCEMI in Fargo For close to twenty years I’ve watched Steve Buscemi played second, third or even forth fiddle to the main protagonist/antagonist in dozens of independent and Hollywood films. And I’ve pretty much loved him in all of… Continue reading
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