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98.
The Terminator
UK/USA 1984 DIR James Cameron
97.
Bride Of Frankenstein
USA 1935 DIR James Whale
96. Beauty Of The Day
France/Italy 1967 DIR Luis Bunuel
95.
My Beautiful Laundrette
UK 1985 DIR Stephen Frears
94.
Easy Rider
USA 1969 DIR Dennis Hopper
The Terminator is a cyborg assassin sent back in
time from the year 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, but Kyle Reese, a soldier
from the future, is sent back in time to protect her.
'The Terminator is a blazing, cinematic comic book, full of virtuoso moviemaking, terrific momentum, solid performances and a compelling story.' Variety
Séverine Serizy, a young, beautiful housewife who
has masochistic fantasies about elaborate floggings and bondage, decides to
spend her days as a prostitute while her husband, with whom she shares no
physical intimacy, is out at work.
'It is possibly the best-known erotic film of modern times, perhaps the best.' Roger Ebert
The story is set in 1980s London and follows the
complex relationships between members of the Asian and White community.
'...the strength of the film is its vision - cutting, compassionate and sometimes hilarious - of what it means to be Asian, and British, in Thatcher's Britain.' Time Out
The film tells the story of two bikers (played by
Fonda and Hopper) who travel through the American Southwest and South with the
aim of achieving freedom.
'It plays today more as a period piece than as living cinema, but it captures so surely the tone and look of that moment in time.' Roger Ebert
It begins as a stage production of the play,
then gradually turns into a stylized cinematic rendition.
'That the film should get made at all was an extraordinary achievement, but Olivier, in his directing debut, also gave us the first large-scale radical movie re-interpretation of Shakespeare long before others.' Almar Haflidason
Stan and Ollie meet an old prospector, and are
entrusted to deliver a deed to a gold mine.
'Some classic moments, such as the pair's soft-shoe shuffle outside the saloon, and their vocal duet at the bar on 'The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia', as well as a razor-sharp satire of B Western conventions.' Time Out
The film was made in the style of a Mockumentary,
describing a couple of days in the lives of The Beatles.
'From the opening chords of the title song played over the group bemusedly fleeing from their fans, A Hard Day's Night creates pure, infectious joy.' Kenneth Turan
Buster Keaton plays Johnnie Gray, a locomotive
engineer. He returns to his hometown in Confederate Georgia to visit his fiancé
Annabelle Lee when the American Civil War breaks out.
'[Keaton's films] have such a graceful perfection, such a meshing of story, character and episode, that they unfold like music.' Roger Ebert
In Africa during WW1, a gin-swilling riverboat
owner/captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to
attack an enemy warship. Humphrey Bogart won his only Oscar for his lead
performance.
'It is a picture with an unassuming warmth and naturalness...' William Brogdon
The film presents a dramatized version of the
mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin
rebelled against their officers of the Tsarist regime. The film is composed of 5
episodes.
'The direction of Sergei Eisenstein is original and powerful.' Variety
Tobruk,
a British base, is attacked by the German
Afrika Korps in the
Western Desert Campaign
of
World War II.
'It may not be a very good film, but as Raymond Durgnat demonstrates in A Mirror for England, it's an interesting account of 'Britain's sense of inferiority in the post war world'.' Time Out
Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as a young petty
criminal.
'Say this, in sum, for Breathless: it is certainly no cliché, in any area or sense of the word. It is more a chunk of raw drama, graphically and artfully torn with appropriately ragged edges out of the tough underbelly of modern metropolitan life.' Bosley Crowther
Lee is a Shaolin martial artist from Hong Kong
who possesses great philosophical insight into martial arts as well as physical
prowess.
'On an adventure level, the performances are quite good. The one by Mr. Lee, not only the picture's supermaster killer but a fine actor as well, is downright fascinating.' Howard Thompson
One man stands in the way of Prince John's
ambitions to steal the throne from his brother, its the Saxon Robin, Earl of
Locksley (Errol Flynn).
'In these cynical days when swashbucklers cannot be presented without an ironic subtext, this great 1938 film exists in an eternal summer of bravery and romance.' Roger Ebert
Tony Manero, is a immature young man whose
weekends are spent at a local Brooklyn discothèque.
'There's a lot in the movie that's sad and painful, but after a few years what you remember is John Travolta on the dance floor in that classic white disco suit, and the Bee Gees on the soundtrack.' Roger Ebert
The film tells in real time the story of a town
marshal, Will Kane, who is forced to face a gang of killers by himself.
'A film about what it means to be a man that manages to avoid the musk of machismo, High Noon is truly a film that improves with each and every viewing.' David Wood
The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) travels to Alaska to
take part in the Alaska Gold Rush. Bad weather strands him in a remote cabin
with a prospector who has found a large gold deposit.
'Here is a comedy with streaks of poetry, pathos, tenderness, linked with brusqueness and boisterousness.' Mordaunt Hall
Saturday Night begins in a working man's club in
Nottingham following 22 year old Arthur.
'Much of the freshness survives in Finney's abrasive performance as the young Nottingham factory worker lashing blindly out at the bleak working class horizons to which he has been bred by parents 'dead from the neck up'.' Time Out
A chastened Henry Frankenstein abandons his plans
to create life, only to be tempted and finally coerced by the Monster,
encouraged by Henry's old mentor Dr. Pretorius, into constructing a mate for
him.
'Karloff manages to invest the character with some subtleties of emotion that are surprisingly real and touching.' Variety
Mookie is living in a black and Puerto Rican
neighbourhood in Brooklyn with his sister, Jade and works as a pizza delivery
man for a local pizzeria.
'The film -- at once stylised and realistic -- buzzes throughout with the sheer, edgy bravado that comes from living one's life on the streets. It looks, sounds, and feels right.' Geoff Andrew
99. Saturday Night And Sunday Morning
UK 1960 DIR Karel Reisz
100.
Do The Right Thing
USA 1989 DIR Spike Lee |
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