Wait Until Dark
Blind woman terrorized by thugs.
Play Misty For Me
Clint Eastwood’s fling turns deadly.
Dark Passage
Bogie, Bacall, definitely Hitchcockian tone.
Next: Films of Jimmy Stewart.
It’s a Wonderful Life
The world without George Bailey.
Bell, Book and Candle
Better being witch, Stewart’s girlfriend?
Vertigo
Also with actress Kim Novak.
Next: movies where the main characters go to the opera.
Pretty Woman
Gere okay, but Roberts shines.
A Night at the Opera
Classic Marx Brothers; still funny.
Phantom of the Paradise
Rock opera’s still an opera.
Next: Films where the main character plays a musical instrument (but not film biographies of musicians, such as Ray, La Bamba, The Buddy Holly Story, or similar).
Films where the main character plays a musical instrument (but not film biographies of musicians, such as Ray, La Bamba, The Buddy Holly Story, or similar).
Wayne’s World
“Stairway” prohibited at guitar store
Back to the Future III
Recognizable frontier band spins guitars
El Mariachi
Firepower stashed in guitar case
Next: Robert Rodriguez films
Bedhead
His first, a 1991 short
Spy Kids
Farfetched, silly juvenile espionage caper
Planet Terror
Paired with Grindhouse but bombed
Next: Movies with a grindhouse feel
I Spit on Your Grave
Ebert: “Vile piece of garbage.”*
Motel Hell
“Meat’s meat…man’s gotta eat!”
Deep Throat
Sorta had plot; Lovelace bruised.
*But he reviewed it!
Next: Movies with an arthouse feel.
La Dolce Vita
Classic Italian film by Fellini
Spellbound
Funny, engrossing documentary about bee
Manchester by the Sea
Affleck mopes way to Oscar
Next: Movies with particularly good soundtracks
The Graduate
Music only good thing, IMHO.
Harold & Maude
Excellent Cat Stevens songs throughout!
Something Wild
Varied soundtrack for quirky movie.
Next: more movies with good soundtracks.
Little Women
Coplandesque score is terrific: Little Women Sundtrack - "Orchard House" - YouTube
Cast Away
Beautiful, yearning orchestral score: Cast Away Soundtrack - Main Theme - YouTube
Glory
Courage of soldiers evoked: Glory OST 01 - A Call To Arms - YouTube
Treating the links as words…
Next: Movies with crappy soundtracks
Taxi Driver
Great film; blah HERMAN!!! score???
Where the Wild Things Are
Indie-acoustic not for this film.
Ladyhawke
Disco? seriously? Disco? the humanity!
Next: films with dream sequences, or characters’ fantasies or hallucinations that go on for a while before you realize they aren’t really part of the plot.
An American Werewolf in London
Nightmare follows nightmare; still funny
Cloud Atlas
Hanks keeps seeing Satan expy
Brazil
Bureaucrat yearns to fly free
Next: Dystopic films
Metropolis
Still great 90 years later.
A Clockwork Orange
Supposedly, sequel was planned :dubious:.
Soylent Green
Soylent Green is [Spoiler Alert]!
**
Next**: films about dancers.
Flashdance
Pittsburgh never looked so good
Footloose
Kids push back against puritans
Black Swan
Ballerina goes mad; becomes were-swan
Next: Films about singers
The Rose
Loose biopic of Janis Joplin.
Florence Foster Jenkins
Florence thinks she can sing.
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Spacek plays Loretta Lynn perfectly.
Next: Films about artists (painters or sculptors).
Camille Claudel
Rodin’s muse begins out-sculpting him.
Comic Book Confidential
In-depth look at many artists.
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Charlton Heston paints Sistine Chapel.
Next: movies with a long scene in a restaurant.
Goodfellas - Funny, like I’m a clown?
Reservoir Dogs - Cool guy heist, no tip
Looper - Time travel, 2 hours lost
Next…films of Australia
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Schoolgirls go picnicking and disappear.
My Brilliant Career
Sybylla wants out of bush.
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Crossing Australia in old bus.
Next: films from Slavic countries.
Interrogation
Polish woman tortured into confessing
The Undefeated
Ukrainian general fights Nazis, Soviets
When Father Was Away on Business
Serbian boy has troubled family
Next: Films of Alec Guinness
Bridge on the River Kwai
Convinces Japanese of easier route.
Murder by Death
“The butler did it.” Really?
A Passage to India
Intriguing adaptation of Forster novel.
Next: Films of William Holden.
Stalag 17
German POW camp no fun
Sabrina
Too busy gawking at Audrey
Network
Jaded TV exec cuts deals
Next: Films of Faye Dunaway