Today, I am delighted to welcome into the Library fellow historical fiction author Carolyn Hughes. She has dropped in to say hello and to share some insights into her life as an author. You are very welcome, Carolyn, please introduce yourself: Hello, I’m Carolyn and I write historical fiction. (Sounds like we’re in a meeting […]
1957’s courtroom drama, 12 Angry Men, starring a young Henry Fonda clocks in at #87 on our list. The film opens with a judge giving instructions to a jury in a capital murder case. We see a brief shot of the defendant. The film then moves to the set where it spends almost all of […]
A brisk 91-minute comedy-musical, 1935’s A Night at the Opera is really just a showcase for the Marx brothers, in particular Groucho, and their comedy stylings. Let me start by saying that the plot of this movie doesn’t make a lot of sense. Otis Driftwood (played by Groucho) is some sort of high-society clown who […]
via #85 A Night at the Opera — The AFI Top 100 – Reviewed by Tony
James Cameron’s epic (and I do mean, epic, as it cost a record-at-the-time $200 million to make and clocks in at 3 hours and 14 minutes) love story Titanic signs in at #83 on our list. The film begins with a crew looking for a lost diamond necklace in the wreckage of the RMS Titanic […]
James Cameron’s epic (and I do mean, epic, as it cost a record-at-the-time $200 million to make and clocks in at 3 hours and 14 minutes) love story Titanic signs in at #83 on our list. The film begins with a crew looking for a lost diamond necklace in the wreckage of the RMS Titanic […]
1960 was a big year for film with the release of The Apartment (review to come next week) and Stanley Kubrick’s Roman epic Spartacus. It was such a big year that Spartacus didn’t even get a nomination for best picture, in spite of the fact that it now sits at #81 on the AFI list. […]
The OTHER critically acclaimed film of 1960, The Apartment paints a sordid and complex view of life in white collar New York City. C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemon) is a low-level accounting clerk at fictional Consolidated Life in Manhattan and is a bit of a pushover. He once let a friend use his apartment for the […]
1969’s The Wild Bunch is the first Western on the AFI list. If AFI has a bias against comedies, it would appear to have a bias in favor of Westerns, with 4 making the list. Maybe that’s appropriate – the Western genre, although it has receded in the past 25-30 years (despite occasional attempts at […]
It is sort of odd to watch a film that was made 84 years ago that is a commentary on “Modern Times” but that’s exactly how I spent the morning. 1936’s Charlie Chaplin (mostly) silent film about an economically struggling factory worker is an interesting mix of social commentary, slapstick comedy and outright weirdness. Chaplin […]
1976’s telling of The Washington Post reporting by Woodward and Bernstein that led to Richard Nixon’s resignation, All the President’s Men makes the AFI list at #77. Robert Redford plays the ambitious young Bob Woodward, a reporter with only 9 months of experience with The Washington Post who gets assigned to a boring story about […]
via #77 All the President’s Men — The AFI Top 100 – Reviewed by Tony
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