October 10, 2007
Top 150
http://www.biblio.com/details.php?dcx=111304861&aid=frg
FILM: THE CRITICS' CHOICE: 150 MASTERPIECES OF WORLD CINEMA SELECTED AND DEFINED BY THE EXPERTS - Geoff (ed.), Foreward by Bernardo Bertolucci Andrew
This survey of 20th-century cinematic highlights divides films into categories such as "America: The Studio Years" and "British Cinema." A range of critics have penned brief, contextualizing essays for each listed film, and illustrations accompany them.
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July 27, 2007
Simpsons, the movie
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6287064.stm
The US town of Springfield, Vermont, has beaten 13 rivals and will host the premiere of the film about the animated family The Simpsons.
The show is set in a fictional Springfield because its creator, Matt Groening, spotted that it is one of the most common place-names in the US.
The premiere is on 21 July, ahead of national US release on 27 July.
The town of just over 9,000 residents got 15,367 votes, beating the Illinois entry by 733, according to USA Today, which conducted the poll.
The other contenders were in the states of Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio and Tennessee.
Official Merchandise from Kenya
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April 28, 2007
Sexual Consent Form
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2777178
Sexual Consent - Viral Videos - IFILM
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April 24, 2007
San Francisco Film Festival, Apr
http://fest07.sffs.org/films/film_details.php?id=40
San Francisco International Film Festival
2007: Apr 26 - May 10
A Few Days Later ...
Niki Karimi
In her second narrative feature, Iranian writer/director/actress Niki Karimi presents a gorgeous minimalist portrait of a woman crushed by indecision. At first it seems that 34-year-old graphic designer Shahrzad goes about her daily life—working, driving, listening to phone messages—with placid ease, but her surface stillness masks a maelstrom of weighty decisions she desperately wishes to avoid making. Shahrzad is contemplating leaving her boyfriend, with whom she is raising a disabled son. At the same time, her father is very ill. Although boyfriend, son and father loom large in Shahrzad’s psyche, these characters appear infrequently. Instead, the film's focus is firmly on Shahrzad as she grows distracted at work, watches TV as a deadening means of avoidance, ignores persistent phone messages and repeatedly drives her car to the same lookout point. Her supervisor is unhappy with her latest work, an obnoxious neighbor constantly parks his SUV in her space and she must transfer her son to a new hospital. Despite her best efforts to maintain solitude and inertia, she eventually must contend with some tough choices. Karimi’s style shows the influence of Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami, with whom she has worked. Like her previous feature One Night, A Few Days Later. . . tells a gripping story of personal choice amid a vividly depicted social and cultural milieu.
—Laurie Koh
U.S. Premiere.
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January 22, 2007
Internet Archives, FilmChest
http://www.archive.org/details/animationandcartoons
Whether you want to watch classic cartoons from a bygone era, Brick Films made with your favorite building toys, Machinima patched together from video games, or the artful computer animations selected for the 2001 SIGGRAPH competition, this collection has something to keep you entertained!
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December 04, 2006
Borat, about US or Khazakhstan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/guides/456900/456998/html/nn3page1.stm
Is Borat making fun of Khazakhstan or US?
Khazakhstan has a higher literacy rates than US, it also has a higher percententage of secondary school enrolment.
Males and females in Khazakhstan start having sex at 20, compared to 16 in US.
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November 15, 2006
Animation Pictures
http://web.mit.edu/~salman/Public/weblog/Collection/
See Also: Animation Videos
Alfi,
Annette,
Bachehaye Madreseye Walt,
Bamse,
Baner,
Barbapapa,
Belfi and Lilibit,
Belle and Sebastian,
Bolek i Lolek, Chobin,
Dehkadeye Heyvanat,
Dore Donya dar 80 rooz,
Droopy,
Fredy,
Footbalistha,
Gooril Angori,
Haach,
Hadi o Hoda,
Hamine,
Hana Dokhtari dar Mazrae,
Huckleberry Finn,
Jacki Jil,
Jafari,
Jangal-e Sabz,
Khanevadeye Dr. Ernest,
Lucky Luke,
Malavane Zebel,
Marco Polo,
Maya,
Moorche va Moorchekhar,
Mosafere Koochooloo,
Mr Hiccup,
Nell,
Perrine,
Pesare Mobtaker,
Pesare Shojaa,
Pink Panter,
Pinocchio,
Profossor Balthazar,
Rascal,
Sandbad,
Serendipity,
Tennessee Tuxedo,
Tom Sawyer,
Watoo Watoo
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November 14, 2006
Animation from your Youth
http://ideaslittle.blogspot.com/2006/10/blog-post_20.html
ایده های کوچک من
Video: An interesting collection of animations from your youth.
See Also: Animation Pictures
شخصیت های کارتونی دوران کودکی موضوعی است که بین همسالان با خاطرات روشن و شفاف یاد می شود و بعضا خاطرات مشترکی از تقلید رفتار شخصیتهای کارتونی بین همسالان پیدا میشود .
این عبارات قلمبه سلمبه مقدمه ای بود بر اینکه کلی زمان صرف کردم تا تونستنم تعداد قابل توجهی از تیتراژهای کارتونهای قدیمی رو روی یوتیوب پیدا کنم، میدونم سرعت اینترنت چی شده و پست به این سنگینی پدر صاحب بچه رو در میاره. ولی کاریش نمیشه کرد.
Alfie Atkins, الفی اتکینز
Postman Pat, پت پستچی
Watoo Watoo, واتو واتو
Belfi en Lillibit, بلفی و لیلیبیت
Dans les Alpes avec Annette, آنت
Barbapapa, باربا پاپا
Bamse, بامزی
James The Cat, خپل
Maya the Bee, نیک و نیکو
De Familie Robinson, مهاجران
Papa' Gambalunga, بابا لنگ دراز
Nathalie, حنا دختری در مزرعه
Mr. Hiccup, آقای سکسکه
Simon in the land of chalk drawings, سایمون
Popeye the Sailor, ملوان زبل
The Inspector (Pink Panter), بازرس و پلنگ صورتی
Inspector Gadget, کارگاه گجت
Duckula, قلعه هزار اردک
Chobin, چوبین
Ferdy, فردی مورچه سیاه
Pat & Mat, پت و مت
Belle and Sebastian Episode,بل و سباستین
Deputy Dawg Cartoon: Dog-gone Catfish
The Ant and the Aardvark, مورچه و
مورچه خوار
لولک و بولک
Jimbo and the Jetset, جیمبو
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August 09, 2006
Grass - From Ahvaz to Isfahan
http://www.milestonefilms.com/movie.php/grass/
The migration of the Bakhtiari Tribe
A classic adventure by the makers of "King Kong." In 1924, neophyte filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack hooked up with journalist and sometime spy Marguerite Harrison and set off to film an adventure. They found excitement, danger and unparalleled drama in the migration of the Bakhtiari tribe of Persia (now Iran). Twice a year, more than 50,000 people and half a million animals surmounted seemingly impossible obstacles to take their herds to pasture.
The filmmakers captured unforgettable images of courage and determination as the Bakhtiari braved the raging and icy waters of the half-mile-wide Karun River. Cooper and Schoedsack almost froze when they filmed the breathtaking, almost unbelievable, sight of an endless river of men, women and children--their feet bare or wrapped in rags — winding up the side of the sheer, snow-covered rock face of the 15,000-foot-high Zardeh Kuh mountain.
Although many documentary historians consider "Grass" second only to "Nanook of the North," few people have actually ever seen this legendary film. This restored and full-length version, complete with an authentic new Iranian score, will astonish today’s audiences with its beautiful photography and heart-stopping adventure.
Iranian.com Article
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July 12, 2006
Farinelli - Castrato Superstar
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5171892.stm
The body of the world's most famous castrato singer, Farinelli (born Carlo Broschi in 1705), has been exhumed to try to find out how his virtuoso voice developed.
Scholars in the northern Italian city of Bologna will measure his skull and bones and perform DNA tests.
The project has been organised by the Farinelli Study Centre in Bologna, a group of scholars hoping to raise awareness of the singer's achievements.
Castrati singers were popular in Europe from the 16th Century until 1870 when the operation was banned.
The castrato's voice was prized for its combination of pitch and power - an unbroken male voice able to reach the highest notes, delivered by the powerful lungs of a fully-grown man.
In 17th and 18th Century Italy, up to 4,000 boys a year, often from poor families, were castrated from the age of eight upwards.
Very few actually went on to achieve success, but those who did became the pop stars of their day, and they behaved as such.
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June 21, 2006
An Inconvenient Truth
http://www.climatecrisis.net/
Al Gore's movie about global warming.
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March 25, 2006
The Da Vinci Code
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808625216/trailer
Watch the trailer from the controversial movie, "The Da Vinci Code"
The murder of a curator at the Louvre reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected since the days of Christ. Only the victim's granddaughter and Robert Langdon, a famed symbologist, can untangle the clues he left behind. The duo become both suspects and detectives searching for not only the murderer but also the stunning secret of the ages he was charged to protect.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Jean Reno, Audrey Tautou, Alfred Molina, Ian McKellen
Directed by: Ron Howard
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March 06, 2006
Tiburon Film Festival, Mar
http://www.tiburonfilmfestival.com/festival.php
Tiburon International Film Festival
1680 Tiburon Blvd., Tiburon CA 94920 USA
Telephone: 1(415) 381-4123
Fax: 1(415) 388-4123
E-Mail: info@tiburonfilmfestival.com
Web: www.tiburonfilmfestival.com
2006
Tiburon international film festival is starting next week, and they are showing lots of interesting (and not necessarily good!) Iranian movies.
Some of you asked me before about these movies. I tried to be brief, and didn't include the information you can find on the web site, but I included the URL for each film.
* There is a tribute to Shirin Neshat. As you may know, she is one of the most famous and hip artists in New York. She's very famous for her photographs, but she's also a film maker. Almost all of her art works are
about women, and religion. You've probably seen some of her photos. Her videos are more experimental than conventional. She will be there in person, don't miss seeing her. For all Iranians, Behrooz Vosoughi is going to be there too! :)
They will show 4 of her videos: Zarin, The Last Word, Making of Mahdokht, and Tooba.
Show Time: Monday, March 13 @ 7:30 PM
* Also, there's another film called 9/11/03: A Day in the Life of New York, which is a documentary about the lives of few New Yorkers including Shirin Neshat and Salman Rushdie.
ShowTime: Sunday, March 12, 2006 @ 05:30 PM
* There's a documentary by my brother Bahman about a small group of nomadic gypsies in North of Iran that people call "Infidels". If you're a documentary kind of person, don't miss the opportunity to see this movie!
Show Time: Thursday, March 16 @ 09:25 PM
(He's not only a great documentary maker, but also a very handsome guy! Check his picture at
http://www.tiburonfilmfestival.com/contactInfo.php?contact_id=3210,
but ladies, don't ask me to introduce you to him... :))
* Mania Akbari first time appeared as the leading actress in "10" (and was great!), but immediately after that she made her first movie "20 fingers" which got a lot of attention. She's a very strong and opinionated woman, and she's not afraid of showing it in her videos. She has 6 short videos in the festival called "6 Video Arts" talking about "Self", "Repression", "Sin", "Escape", "Fear", and "Devastation".
Show Time: Tuesday, March 14 @ 3:15 pm
* "Murderer or Murdered" and "Prostitution Behind the Veil" are two documentaries about women who are sentenced to death, and about prostitutes. Get a more real image about women in Iran!
Show Time: Saturday, March 11 @ 3:25 pm
* I don't know anything about "The Slap", but I know the director "Ehsan Amani" who is a smart, intelligent and very funny guy, so I'm not surprised that the festival's catalogue says "Clever, witty, and extraordinary funny" about his movie.
Show Time: Sunday, March 12 @ 3:15 pm
* Group projects are usually not interesting, but I'm usually interested to see them! There's a movie in the festival called "Visions of Europe" by 25 European filmmakers (maybe the brightest, including Aki Kaurismaki and Peter Greenaway) that I'm going to see.
Show Time: Tuesday, March 14 @ 09:15 PM
Ahmad Kiarostami
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March 05, 2006
Oscars - Academy Awards
http://www.oscars.org/index.html
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Sunday, February 25, 2007 (5pm PT, 8pm ET)
79th Annual Academy Awards Presentation
from the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland
Televised live by the ABC Television Network
Host: Ellen DeGeneres
Tuesday, January 23, 2007:
Nominations announced 5:30 a.m. PST, Samuel Goldwyn Theater
- Best motion picture
Babel
The Departed
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
- Best animated short film
The Danish Poet
Lifted
The Little Matchgirl
Maestro
No Time for Nuts
- Performance by an actor in a leading role
Leonardo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole in Venus
Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland
- Performance by an actress in a leading role
Penélope Cruz in Volver
Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren in The Queen
Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet in Little Children
- Best animated feature film
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House
- Best documentary feature
Deliver Us from Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq in Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country
- Best foreign language film of the year
After the Wedding, Denmark
Days of Glory (Indigènes), Algeria
The Lives of Others, Germany
Pan’s Labyrinth, Mexico
Water, Canada
- Achievement in visual effects
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Poseidon
Superman Returns
- Adapted screenplay
Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Peter Baynham & Dan Mazer
Children of Men, Alfonso Cuarón & Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby
The Departed, William Monahan
Little Children, Todd Field & Tom Perrotta
Notes on a Scandal, Patrick Marber
- Original screenplay
Babel, Guillermo Arriaga
Letters from Iwo Jima, Iris Yamashita
Little Miss Sunshine, Michael Arndt
Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro
The Queen, Peter Morgan
Razzie Awards - mock the bottom of Hollywood's barrel.
Previous Years:
Sunday, March 5 , 2006 (5pm PT, 8pm ET)
78th Annual Academy Awards Presentation
from the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland
Televised live by the ABC Television Network
Tuesday, January 31, 2006:
Nominations announced 5:30 a.m. PST, Samuel Goldwyn Theater
- Best motion picture
* >> Crash <<
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Good Night, and Good Luck
Munich
- Best animated short film
>> The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation <<
Badgered
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
9
One Man Band
- Performance by an actor in a leading role
>> Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote <<
Terrence Howard in Hustle & Flow
Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix in Walk the Line
David Strathairn in Good Night, and Good Luck.
- Performance by an actress in a leading role
>> Reese Witherspoon in Walk the Line <<
Judi Dench in Mrs. Henderson Presents
Felicity Huffman in Transamerica
* Keira Knightley in Pride & Prejudice
Charlize Theron in North Country
- Best animated feature film
>> Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit <<
Howl’s Moving Castle
* Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
- Best documentary feature
>> March of the Penguins <<
Darwin’s Nightmare
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Murderball
Street Fight
- Best foreign language film of the year
>> Tsotsi, South Africa <<
Don’t Tell, Italy
Joyeux Noël, France
Paradise Now, Palestine
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days, Germany
- Achievement in visual effects
* >> King Kong <<
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
War of the Worlds
- Adapted screenplay
>> Brokeback Mountain, Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana <<
Capote, Dan Futterman
The Constant Gardener, Jeffrey Caine
A History of Violence, Josh Olson
Munich, Tony Kushner and Eric Roth
- Original screenplay
* >> Crash, Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco <<
Good Night, and Good Luck., George Clooney & Grant Heslov
Match Point, Woody Allen
The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach
Syriana, Stephen Gaghan
See Also:
Red Vic Moive House
San Francisco International Film Festival
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March 01, 2006
Balboa Theater, SF, Feb-Mar
http://www.balboamovies.com/program/mar_apr_2006.html#oscarShortDocs
3630 Balboa St. at 38th Ave
(415) 221-8184
2007
Feb 20, 21
March 2006
Every Feb - Mar, watch Oscar nominated films you won't see elsewhere
Monday, March 6 — Thursday, March 9
Oscar Short Documentary Films
The rarely seen short documentary category hits the big screen.
The Mushroom Club -Steve Okazaki examines the terrible personal toll that followed the bombing of Hiroshima 60 years ago; 10 people whose lives were marked by the explosion are profiled. 35min.
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin -Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson explore the lasting impact of radio broadcasting legend Norman Corwin's work focusing on his landmark "On a Note of Triumph," which aired on the evening of VE Day. 40min. (2:55), 5:45, 8:35
The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club -Dan Krauss- After shooting an award-winning photograph that captured the full horror of starvation in the Sudan, South African photojournalist Kevin Carter found himself tormented by doubts about the ethical implication of his work. 27 min
God Sleeps in Rwanda - Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman - The genocide that devastated Rwanda in 1994 also left in its wake a population that was suddenly 70% female. Five courageous women struggle to rebuild their lives in a society still reeling from its bloody recent history. 30min. (1:40), 4:30, 7:20
Intermission between each pairing. - One admission price for all 4 films.
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February 01, 2006
Sundance Festival
http://festival.sundance.org/
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
Jan 18-28, 2007
Park City, Utah
Previous Years:
Jan 19-29, 2006
Watch Short Films
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My Movies
http://www.chekonim.com/archives/movies_world/index.html
Blair Witch Project
Downfall
Ring
Winter Soldier
Oscars 2005
Being Julia
Collateral
Hotel Rwanda
Maria Full of Grace
The Passion of the Christ
Ray
Troy
Vera Drake
A Very Long Engagement
Cannes 2005
The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada
Broken Flowers, by Jim Jarmusch
The Child, by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
The Forsaken Land
Free Zone
Hidden, by Michael Haneke
Me And You And Everyone We Know
Shanghai Dreams, by Wang Xiaoshuai
****. All the President's Men
***** Crash
***.. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
****. House of Flying Daggers
**... Lemony snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
***** King Kong (2005)
****. Kinsey
Foreign:
Oscar 2005
As It Is In Heaven
The Chorus
The Sea Inside
Yesterday
Short Film:
***** Animation Show
Podorozhni (Wayfarers), by Igor Strembitskyy
Clara, by Van Sowerwine
Animations:
***.. The Incredibles
****. Shark Tale
***.. Shrek 2
Animated Short:
Birthday Boy
Gopher Broke
***** Guard Dog
Lorenzo
Ryan
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January 24, 2006
Shrikanth, Kishan - Indian director
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4644222.stm
On the sets of the film, Kishan Shrikanth confidently calls the shots like all other directors - even though he is only 10.
Starting at the tender age of four, he has already acted in 24 regional feature films and has starred in 1,000 episodes of a hit Kannada-language soap opera on television.
But now Master Kishan has decided to try his hand at directing his first feature film, C/O Footpath (Care of Footpath), which he has also co-written.
The two hour film is about the street children who have no other address than the footpaths in India's big cities.
Kishan convinced Bollywood star Jackie Shroff, comedy actor Saurav Shukla and national award winning Kannada actress Thaara to star in the film.
Shooting for the film, which has a budget of about 8m rupees (under $200,000), is 85% complete.
C/O Footpath, due to released this year, is being shot in Kannada and is expected to be dubbed into Hindi, Oriya, Malayalam, Bengali and Tamil.
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September 28, 2005
Kinsey, Let's talk about sex
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/kinsey/trailer/
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University
Boston Phoenix article, November 19-25, 2004
Posted by chek at 03:17 PM | Comments (0)
August 12, 2005
One Minute Movie
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/oneminutemovies/
Collection of one-minute movies.
Tips on how to create your very own one-minute movie.
I particularly liked these
Tickling
Bus Stop #2, and #3
Birth of a Banana
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August 11, 2005
Winter Soldier
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204058/
1972 Documentary about Vietnam
The film consists of panel testimony before and to an audience of the horrible things that the soldiers saw and did while fighting for truth justice and the American Way. That is inter-cut with one on one interviews with the film makers. Its mostly just talking heads, but its rarely boring since what these men have to say is so interesting it ends up being more like talking to friends over coffee than being lectured.
Now, the 95-minute film - which has circulated like 16-millimeter samizdat on college campuses for decades but has never been accessible to a wide audience - is about to get its first significant theatrical release in the United States, beginning on Friday at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
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July 18, 2005
Animation Show
http://www.animationshow.com/
Year Two of the "Animation Show" theatrical anthology series, showcasing more of the world's best animated short films: headlined by Don Hertzfeldt's "The Meaning of Life", also features Bill Plympton's "Guard Dog" Peter Cornwell's "Ward 13".
Also in the 2005 version
Fallen Art
Hello
Rock Fish from Blur Studio
Buy the DVD
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June 22, 2005
Movies - AFI's TOP 100
http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/movies.aspx
The best movies of all time (1896-1996)
5. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
4. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
3. THE GODFATHER (1972)
2. CASABLANCA (1942)
1. CITIZEN KANE (1941)
AFI invited more than 1,500 leaders from across the American film community - screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, cinematographers, editors, executives, film historians and critics, among them - to choose from a list of 400 nominated films compiled by AFI and select the 100 greatest American movies. The nominated films were all made in the first 100 years of American cinema (1896-1996). Movies produced after 1996 were not included.
Five Spielberg films make the top 100; James Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall among the most represented actors.
Also:
100 YEARS ... 100 MOVIE QUOTES
100 YEARS ... 100 SONGS
Other AFI's 100 YEARS... 100 LISTS
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Movie Quotes - AFI's TOP 100
http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/quotes.aspx
The best movie quotes of all time
5. "Here's looking at you, kid", Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca
4. "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore", Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz"
3. "I coulda been a contender", Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront
2. "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse", Marlon Brando, The Godfather
1. "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn", Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind
Chosen through ballots sent to 1,500 filmmakers, actors, critics and others in Hollywood.
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
Clark Gable's line to Vivien Leigh in 1939's "Gone With the Wind" led the AFI's list, announced in the organization's annual top-100 special that aired on CBS Tuesday, June 22nd, 2005.
Brando had the No. 2 and 3 quotes -- "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse," from "The Godfather" and his "I coulda been a contender" speech from "On the Waterfront."
Judy Garland's Dorothy Gale came in fourth with "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore," from The Wizard of Oz." At No. 5 was "Here's looking at you, kid," spoken by Rick (Humphrey Bogart) to Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) in "Casablanca."
Also:
100 YEARS ... 100 MOVIES
100 YEARS ... 100 SONGS
Other AFI's 100 YEARS... 100 LISTS
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June 06, 2005
CRASH
http://www.crashfilm.com/
Moving at the speed of life, we are bound to collide with each other.
Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William fichtner, Brendan Fraser and many more tallented actors.
Paul Haggis: Director, Writer, Producer (Also Million Dollar Baby, and Honeymoon with Harry)
One of the top 10 movies I've ever seen.
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May 31, 2005
Deep Throat breaks cover
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4597503.stm
A former deputy chief, who was No. 2 at the FBI has reportedly admitted to being "Deep Throat", the source who leaked secrets during the Watergate scandal. The scandal forced the resignation of US President Richard Nixon in 1974.
Deep Throat helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate affair. The story is documented in the 1976 movie "All the President's Men", directed by Alan J. Pakula, staring Dustin Hoffman (as Carl Bernstein), and Robert Redford (as Bob Woodward).
The Washington Post confirmed this story on its Web site today. Bob Woodward, part of the journalistic team that broke the scandal, confirmed W. Mark Felt as "Deep Throat" -- ending a 30-year mystery.
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May 21, 2005
Cannes Film Festival
http://www.festival-cannes.org/index.php?langue=6002
58th Cannes Festival
11th to 22nd May 2005
* Palme d'Or: "The Child" by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
* Grand Prix: "Broken Flowers" by Jim Jarmusch
* Best Actress Award: Hanna Laslo in "Free Zone"
* Best Actor Award: Tommy Lee Jones in "The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada"
* Best Director Award: "Hidden" by Michael Haneke
* Best Screenplay Award to Guillermo Arriaga for "The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada"
* Jury Prize: "Shanghai Dreams" by Wang Xiaoshuai
* Camera d'Or Winner: "The Forsaken Land" and "Me And You And Everyone We Know"
* Short Film Palme d'Or: "Podorozhni" ("Wayfarers") by Igor Strembitskyy / Special Mention: "Clara" by Van Sowerwine
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May 01, 2005
Red Vic movie house
http://www.redvicmoviehouse.com/
RED VIC MOVIE HOUSE
In 1980, a group of movie lovers decided to collectively run their own cinema. Hence, the Red Vic Movie House. For almost 10 years, Red Vic's first home was at the corner of Haight and Belvedere Streets. They introduced their now legendary couches to offer patrons a funky, yet comfy, place to watch their favorite films.
In 1991, the Red Vic moved to its present location, on Haight Street between Cole and Shraeder Streets. Unlike the orginal Red Vic location, the new Red Vic offers a larger auditorium equipped with video, 16mm and 35 mm dolby stereo sound projection. But they still have signature couches and organic treats available for your movie watching pleasure.
Every May watch the Academy Award Nominated Shorts
The Red Vic Movie House is located on 1727 Haight Street,
between Cole and Shrader, just a block and a half east from Golden Gate Park.
Red Vic Movie House
1727 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
Tel : 415-668-3994
Email: info@redvicmoviehouse.com
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April 21, 2005
Cinema Confidential
http://www.cinecon.com/
Cinema Confidential - Upcoming movie news, gossip, interviews, reviews, trailers & more!
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March 18, 2005
yahoo movies
http://movies.yahoo.com
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Blair Witch Project
http://www.blairwitch.com/
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iFilm
http://www.iFilm.com
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AtomFilms
http://www.atomfilms.com
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Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
http://www.imdb.com
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