Archive for the ‘1001 films’ Category

Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton) is an engineer for the railroad company.  After being rejected by the recruitment office for the Confederate Army in the civil war his only love, Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack), refuses to speak to him.  One day a Union steals his train, nicknamed The General, as well as kidnaps Annabelle in a devious plot to try and win the war.  Johnny single-handedly chases after his train, and lady, in an attempt to foil the Union’s plot. (more…)

Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) has just arrived in Vienna only to discover that his friend and long time business partner, Harry Lime (Orson Welles), has passed away.  He’s told it’s an accident but the more questions he asks is the more odd his friend’s passing seems.  So Holly goes on a journey to get to the bottom off what his friend was doing in Vienna and why he was murdered. (more…)

note: this is a repost of one my Reviews from Aug 9th, 2008.

Detective David Mills (Brad Pitt) is a youngster that has just transferred into the New York City’s homicide division. Detective Lt. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) is the experienced homicide detective that has been partnered with Mills for his final week before he retires. As Mills enters the city and starts work at the same time a new serial killer starts his work using the seven deadly sins as the overall theme for his murders. (more…)

After an incident on the carrier Maverick [Tom Cruise] and Goose [Anthony Edwards] have become the candidate for Top Gun, a school for the best of the best fighter pilots to make them better.  We are then treated to eight weeks of training sessions and classes about flying fighter planes in the 80s. (more…)

After Frank [Henry Fonda] and his crew massacres the McBain family he leaves a newlywed wife, Jill McBain [Claudia Cardinale], a widow and the sole owner of the McBain estate.  The prime suspect, Cheyenne [Jason Robards], and a passer through, Harmonica [Charles Bronson], decide to find the man responsible and make him pay for his crimes against the lady. (more…)

Marnie Edgar [Tippi Hedren] is a damaged woman.  She is a habitual thief.  She knows no other way to live.  She loves only her horse and her mother.  However, with a set of deep seated psychological issues she remains unable to become a normal person in society.  She eventually becomes employed to Mark Rutland [Sean Connery], who recognises her as the girl who robbed a business associate of his.  Once Mr. Rutland catches her in the act he blackmails her into marrying him so that he can better understand her and fix her. (more…)

George Bailey [James Stewart] has always wanted to leave his home town and travel the world and be somebody, but throughout his life he’s always found an excuse not to go and to stay home and care to some business or another.  One Christmas Eve he and his business partner find themselves $8000 short on their books and in desperate need of money.  George in a moment of fear of incarceration and the evil Mr. Potter [Lionel Barrymore] finally gaining access to everything in the town he wishes for death and that he was never born.  His guardian angel, Clarence [Henry Travers] appears to show George how the world would be if he never was. (more…)

I decided to join a film review club called The 1001 Movies You Must See Club to help make me watch better movies.  What they do is every month recommend four movies everyone should see and review on their various blogs.  These films are taken from a book entitled 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.  Now I know I’ve seen some of these films but not all of them.  So enjoy as I revisit some and discover classics I probably would never see without this little nudge in the right direction.

Where do I start in this world that Paul Thomas Anderson has made for us?  He takes us through the lives of about ten different people who are all interconnected, in some way or another, over the following 24 hours and all are in Los Angeles. (more…)