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The muses of literature, film, theatre, and art combine to make one of the finest if not THE finest expression of the golden age of Hollywood. Robbed of the best picture by that bloated old film about the south, "Hunchback of Notre Dame" shines brighter and brighter with the passing years due to the stellar talents before and behind the camera
Dennis Weaver is the everyman with his valiant Plymouth Valiant as he first runs from then tries to match wits with a seemingly psychotic tank truck driver bent on doing him grave bodily harm. Steven Spielberg, as a young lad, directed this fast and ferocious film for television with a deft hand many of his elder brethren never had.
Jack Arnold's amazing doomsday tale, with a possibly happy ending. Although made on a small budget, it has big ideas and is done with such bravado that we just have to have it on our list of perfect movies. As a side note, this film has also been named to the Library of Congress National Film Registry (although our list is earlier!)
Two unusual films by two famous actor/race car drivers. Both were major failures. First, Steve McQueen in his vanity project "Le Mans" and Paul Newman in his very first big screen picture "The Silver Chalice."
Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi treasure "Blade Runner" has much to answer for, including the look of every futuristic movie to this day! Although rumors abound that a remake is in the offing, we frankly don't know why they even bother. Nothing will even come close to matching this film in which ever iteration you prefer. The production magic, or rather living hell as this case may be, will never be duplicated!
Never thought we'd see the day, but the Film Guys and Niki get out their hankies to do Brian's Song, the 1971 television movie on the lives of Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers. Will wonders never cease? This film, as tear-jerking as it is, set a high bar for other TV films to jump. Sadly, most have fallen very, very short. NOTE: The explicit tag is due to the use of the "N Word" in one audio clip.
The Film Guys weigh in on Elia Kazan's notable and highly awarded film that pits the little guy against the big bad union. Director Kazan is as much praised for his unique stylings as he is damned for his part in the red scare of the 1950's.
How many movie musicals use The Great Depression as their starting point? "Annie?" Well, OK, how many GOOD movie musicals? Mervyn LeRoy and Busby Berkeley show 'em how its done in this Black & White delight!
In their return after almost a year, the FilmGuys show up live at WYSO to do a call-in show, taking questions from listeners! This is a super sized show, lasting almost an hour!!
We here at Filmically Perfect believe that Orson Welles' worst film is better than some directors best film! There is no doubt in our minds that this IS one of his best, a twisted sadistic tale of love, murder and drugs on the border. And while some will fault Charlton Heston for his mucho gringo Mexican character, it was he who made sure that Welles was in the director's chair and for that, we can forgive all else!
There are few directors as good as getting under the skin of a character than John Huston. In this film, Huston pulls an astounding performance from Humphrey Bogart, whom he had made into a star some years earlier with "The Maltese Falcon." And if that weren't enough, Walter Huston, the director's father and an actor among actors, turns in the performance of a lifetime which garnered him an Academy Award that year!
For those of you who thought "Finally! FP is doing a Alec Baldwin movie!" SHAME ON YOU! This is the one and only original film, directed by the masterful but highly self-destructive Sam Peckinpah and starring Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, and the usually lovable Ben Johnson as one of the great swine of the screen! "The Getaway" is one of the great heist capers of all time, told with all the panache and bravado that Peckinpah had at his command.
James Cagney proves that he still has what it takes in this film, one of his last for Warner Bros. Playing the psychotic mama's boy Cody Jarrett, Cagney sets the world on fire (well, the top of it anyway) in Raoul Walsh's explosive drama!
This film is Michael Curtiz's fictional biography of Bix Beiderbecke, famed jazz trumpeter of the Roaring 20's featuring Kirk Douglas, Doris Day, and the lovely Lauren Bacall. Acting as Muse is composer/performer hoagy Carmichael as "Smoke" Willoughby. The film just proves once again that there was no genre that Curtiz could not handle!
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly created pure celluloid gold with this musical tale of the upheaval of hollywood with the Coming of SOUND! Kelly and his cohorts Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds and the glorious Jean Hagen make beautiful music together and get to poke a few jokes at the rough times in Tinsel Town as movies learned to talk!
Anthony Mann helped turn James Stewart from a likeable everyman into the tough, hard-bitten westerner we see in this film. Mann utilizes his trademarked sudden viscious violence in this film, showing how the worst in a man can be even more loathsome!
Elvis Presley plays a fictional character not at all like Elvis Presley, except that he becomes a huger rock star practically over night. One of the best of the Elvis films, when they still actually cared if the story mattered!
In 1984, Barry Levinson created one of the ultimate baseball movies in "The Natural", a mythological tale about America's Sport. Unfortunately, thwenty-three years later he went back and re-cut it, tarinishing its perfection somewhat in the eyes of the Film Guys. Listen in as they discuss the film and why some directors just need to learn to walk away.
The Film Guys and Niki Dakota do it LIVE for the second time in front of a stunned audience at the FilmDayton Festival!
Charles M. "Chuck" Jones was arguably one of the finest minds in the world of animation--a singular master whose style is still being aped by lesser talents. Here, in two of his finest outings, Jones takes the Opera by the horns ripping up Rossini and violating Wagner!
Herk Harvey's horror tour de force is a low-budget delight and a perfect example of creativity triumphing over a lack of funds! A marvellously creepy and atmospheric film, featuring one of the most bizarre amusement piers of all time--"Saltair," built by the Mormons on the edge of the Great Salt Lake!
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