Category: Cinema

Reviews of movies Adam has seen or films he has worked on.

Thank­ful­ly I’ve seen a ton of these already. The bul­let­ed and bold­ed ones. From Roger Ebert:

• 2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) Stan­ley Kubrick
• The 400 Blows” (1959) Fran­cois Truf­faut
• “8 1/2” (1963) Fed­eri­co Felli­ni
“Aguirre, the Wrath of God” (1972) Wern­er Her­zog
• Alien” (1979) Rid­ley Scott
“All About Eve” (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• Annie Hall” (1977) Woody Allen
• Apoc­a­lypse Now” (1979) Fran­cis Ford Cop­po­la*
• Bam­bi” (1942) Dis­ney
• The Bat­tle­ship Potemkin” (1925) Sergei Eisen­stein
“The Best Years of Our Lives” (1946) William Wyler
“The Big Red One” (1980) Samuel Fuller
• The Bicy­cle Thief” (1949) Vit­to­rio De Sica
• The Big Sleep” (1946) Howard Hawks
• Blade Run­ner” (1982) Rid­ley Scott
“Blowup” (1966) Michelan­ge­lo Anto­nioni
“Blue Vel­vet” (1986) David Lynch
“Bon­nie and Clyde” (1967) Arthur Penn
• Breath­less” (1959 Jean-Luc Godard
• Bring­ing Up Baby” (1938) Howard Hawks
“Car­rie” (1975) Bri­an DePal­ma
• Casablan­ca” (1942) Michael Cur­tiz
• Un Chien Andalou” (1928) Luis Bunuel & Sal­vador Dali
“Chil­dren of Par­adise” / “Les Enfants du Par­adis” (1945) Mar­cel Carne
• Chi­na­town” (1974) Roman Polan­s­ki
• Cit­i­zen Kane” (1941) Orson Welles
• A Clock­work Orange” (1971) Stan­ley Kubrick
“The Cry­ing Game” (1992) Neil Jor­dan
• The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1951) Robert Wise
“Days of Heav­en” (1978) Ter­ence Mal­ick
• Dirty Har­ry” (1971) Don Siegel
“The Dis­creet Charm of the Bour­geoisie” (1972) Luis Bunuel
• Do the Right Thing” (1989 Spike Lee
“La Dolce Vita” (1960) Fed­eri­co Felli­ni
• Dou­ble Indem­ni­ty” (1944) Bil­ly Wilder
• Dr. Strangelove” (1964) Stan­ley Kubrick
“Duck Soup” (1933) Leo McCarey
• E.T. — The Extra-Ter­res­tri­al” (1982) Steven Spiel­berg
• Easy Rid­er” (1969) Den­nis Hop­per
• The Empire Strikes Back” (1980) Irvin Ker­sh­n­er
• The Exor­cist” (1973) William Fried­kin
• Far­go” (1995) Joel & Ethan Coen
• Fight Club” (1999) David Finch­er
• “Franken­stein” (1931) James Whale
“The Gen­er­al” (1927) Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruck­man
• The God­fa­ther,” “The God­fa­ther, Part II” (1972, 1974) Fran­cis Ford Cop­po­la
• Gone With the Wind” (1939) Vic­tor Flem­ing
• Good­Fel­las” (1990) Mar­tin Scors­ese
• The Grad­u­ate” (1967) Mike Nichols
• Hal­loween” (1978) John Car­pen­ter
• A Hard Day’s Night” (1964) Richard Lester
• Intol­er­ance” (1916) D.W. Grif­fith
“It’s a Gift” (1934) Nor­man Z. McLeod
• It’s a Won­der­ful Life” (1946) Frank Capra
• Jaws” (1975) Steven Spiel­berg
“The Lady Eve” (1941) Pre­ston Sturges
• Lawrence of Ara­bia” (1962) David Lean
“M” (1931) Fritz Lang
• Mad Max 2″ / “The Road War­rior” (1981) George Miller
• The Mal­tese Fal­con” (1941) John Hus­ton
• The Manchuri­an Can­di­date” (1962) John Franken­heimer
• Metrop­o­lis” (1926) Fritz Lang
• Mod­ern Times” (1936) Charles Chap­lin
• Mon­ty Python and the Holy Grail” (1975) Ter­ry Jones & Ter­ry Gilliam
“Nashville” (1975) Robert Alt­man
“The Night of the Hunter” (1955) Charles Laughton
• Night of the Liv­ing Dead” (1968) George Romero
• North by North­west” (1959) Alfred Hitch­cock
• Nos­fer­atu” (1922) F.W. Mur­nau
• On the Water­front” (1954) Elia Kazan
“Once Upon a Time in the West” (1968) Ser­gio Leone
• Out of the Past” (1947) Jacques Tournier
“Per­sona” (1966) Ing­mar Bergman
• “Pink Flamin­gos” (1972) John Waters
• Psy­cho” (1960) Alfred Hitch­cock
“Pulp Fic­tion” (1994) Quentin Taran­ti­no
• Rashomon” (1950) Aki­ra Kuro­sawa
• Rear Win­dow” (1954) Alfred Hitch­cock
• Rebel With­out a Cause” (1955) Nicholas Ray
“Red Riv­er” (1948) Howard Hawks
“Repul­sion” (1965) Roman Polan­s­ki
“The Rules of the Game” (1939) Jean Renoir
“Scar­face” (1932) Howard Hawks
“The Scar­let Empress” (1934) Josef von Stern­berg
• Schindler’s List” (1993) Steven Spiel­berg
• The Searchers” (1956) John Ford
• The Sev­en Samu­rai” (1954) Aki­ra Kuro­sawa
• Sin­gin’ in the Rain” (1952) Stan­ley Donen & Gene Kel­ly
• Some Like It Hot” (1959) Bil­ly Wilder
“A Star Is Born” (1954) George Cukor
• A Street­car Named Desire” (1951) Elia Kazan
• Sun­set Boule­vard” (1950) Bil­ly Wilder
“Taxi Dri­ver” (1976) Mar­tin Scors­ese
• The Third Man” (1949) Car­ol Reed
“Tokyo Sto­ry” (1953) Yasu­jiro Ozu
• Touch of Evil” (1958) Orson Welles
“The Trea­sure of the Sier­ra Madre” (1948) John Hus­ton
“Trou­ble in Par­adise” (1932) Ernst Lubitsch
• Ver­ti­go” (1958) Alfred Hitch­cock
“West Side Sto­ry” (1961) Jerome Robbins/Robert Wise
• The Wild Bunch” (1969) Sam Peck­in­pah
• The Wiz­ard of Oz” (1939) Vic­tor Flem­ing