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The 100 Best American Films - AFI

Well, the American film community has spoken, and (surprise!) they like Citizen Kane. The American Film Institute unveiled its much-ballyhooed list of the 100 greatest American movies of all time, “determined by a blue-ribbon panel of more than 1,500 leaders from across the American film community.” Here at cine101, we published our list of the 100 Best Movies of All Time and we didn’t feel the need to consult 1,500 people before making our selections. Read the rest of this entry »

100 Best Movies of All Time

The list of the 100 greatest American movies of all time, the editors of cine101 represent 100 greatest movies of all time. We announced our own list of the 100 Best Movies of All Time. Of course, we didn’t bother with a prime-time TV special, and we didn’t feel the need to consult a “blue-ribbon panel of more than 1,500 leaders from across the American film community.” We trusted our instincts, and we still do. Check out our list below (limited to English language films made since the birth of the talkies) Read the rest of this entry »

The Terminator

Action 1984
The film that made director James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger household names. In a postapocalyptic world, machines battle humans for dominance. A cyborg travels from the future back to present-day Los Angeles to find and “terminate” the young woman (Linda Hamilton) whose unborn child will one day destroy the ruthless cyborgs.

The Manchurian Candidate

Noir Thriller 1962
Director John Frankenheimer’s version of Richard Condon’s bold, ironic cold war novel about McCarthyism, brainwashing, Russian espionage, and the assassination of a presidential candidate was too disturbing for American audiences at the time — especially after JFK was killed the following year.

Young Frankenstein (1974)

Young Frankenstein (Young Frankenstein in The Young Frankeinstein Spain and in Latin America) is a 1974 American comedy film directed by Mel Brooks and starring Gene Wilder. Teri Garr also involved, Cloris Leachman, Martin Feldman, Peter Boyle, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, and Gene Hackman. The screenplay was written by Brooks and [...]

Arsenic And Old Lace (1944)

Arsenic and Old Lace (IMDB) is a classic of black comedy.
Was very successful, although for Cary Grant, was his worst performance, and not satisfied with the final product.
Under the leadership of Frank Capra, this comedy is basically sort of grotesque humor and a little dark.
He has very good actors the likes of Cary [...]

The Godfather

Action Drama 1972
This Oscar winner for Best Picture, Screenplay, and Actor is the most important gangster picture ever made. It is so visually seductive, its images and characterizations so iconographic, that real-life Mafiosi have admitted to patterning their lives after it. Director Francis Ford Coppola vividly lights the members of the fictional Corleone Mafia [...]

King’s Men (1949)

A few years ago I saw All the King’s Men (Robert Rossen, 1949). He has remained in my memory as an invaluable political argument in the middle period of the witch hunt launched Senator McCarthy in the United States (without much depth that this led Ross to form a blacklist that pushed [...]

The Wizard Of Oz (1939)

In honor of the wicked witch of the west, beginning this blog with a small memory to “The Wizard of OZ.” Who did not want to be Dorothy and travel “beyond the rainbow? The director Victor Fleming adapted the novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by Frank Baum to move to a world full of [...]

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

George Michael Cohan, played by James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy is one of the most unique that has produced the world of American entertainment. Cohan was an actor, dancer, singer, playwright, musician, entrepreneur and fifty things besides a fancy kind, sentimental, and incredibly boastful worker. His optimism and aggressive visceral [...]