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Screwball: Hollywood's Madcap Romantic Comedies
Favs/dislikes: 21:0. "Irreverent, elegant, sublime, and ridiculous, the screwball films of the 1930s and 1940s are a timeless collison of high wit and low slapstick, in which the players used street-smart repartee to turn good taste into bad manners. For one breathtaking moment Hollywood produced a succession of these unforgettable classics: His Girl Friday, Bringing Up Baby, My Man Godfrey, The Lady Eve, The Thin Man, and Twentieth Century. They featured wacky heiresses, boss ladies, and Cinderellas played by stars like Claudette Colbert, Rosalind Russell, and Jean Arthur. They hated and mated Gary Cooper, John Barrymore and William Powell: absent-minded professors, mad impressarios, and tuxedo-clad detectives." This list is a selected filmography of Screwball comedies, and a few earlier influences (ie: Design For Living) that exemplified the genre and are discussed thoroughly in Ed Sikov's book "Screwball: Hollwood's Madcap Romantic Comedies." -
Universal Horror Films
Favs/dislikes: 18:0. Horror films and monster movies put out by Universal Studios in the years 1923-1958. -
Criterion Collection Themes - French New Wave
Favs/dislikes: 14:0. “Tidal wave” would have been a more appropriate name for this explosion of vibrant, innovative, and highly self-conscious films by young French directors in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The informal movement was spearheaded by a handful of critics from Cahiers du cinéma—Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, and Jacques Rivette—whose incisive writings were matched by their films: bold, modern takes on classical masters that reworked genres like noir and the musical, and experimented with techniques antiquated and discovered. While Godard’s Breathless and Truffaut’s The 400 Blows remain the twin groundbreaking events of the movement, films such as Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima mon amour and Agnès Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7 were watersheds as well, finding excited audiences hungry for a new, energetic, political cinema opposed to the stuffy “cinema of quality,” as Truffaut put it, of the old guard. Though the movement quickly dissipated, filmmakers like Godard, Rivette, Varda, and Rohmer continue to pioneer today. -
Heartland Truly Moving Picture Award Winners
Favs/dislikes: 12:0. The Truly Moving Picture Award is bestowed on films that offer more than mere entertainment. And once you see the list of winners, you’ll understand why. -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Fantasy Movies
Favs/dislikes: 11:0. Criteria: - This list includes films that contain 'unreal' earthly (or heavenly) locations, 'supernatural' human powers (Superheros), and 'supernatural' entities (angels, wizards, ghosts, dragons, witches...) This list does NOT include Horror-Fantasy, or Science Fiction-Fantasy. These films were NOT chosen for how highly rated they are overall, but how they rate in the subject of "Fantasy Movie". -
AMC Filmsite List of Epic Films
Favs/dislikes: 10:0. Epics-Historical Films often take an historical or imagined event, mythic, legendary, or heroic figure, and add an extravagant setting and lavish costumes, accompanied by grandeur and spectacle and a sweeping musical score. Epics, costume dramas, historical dramas, war film epics, medieval romps, or 'period pictures' are tales that often cover a large expanse of time set against a vast, panoramic backdrop. In an episodic manner, they follow the continuing adventures of the hero(s), who are presented in the context of great historical events of the past. -
CriterionForum Lists Project - 1960s
Favs/dislikes: 10:0. This list was compiled at Criterionforum.org October 2007. -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Film Noir
Favs/dislikes: 10:0. Background: - 'Film Noir' was the term given by French film critic Nino Frank in 1946 to Hollywood crime films playing in France following WWII. The 'Golden Age' of Film Noir is regarded to be the 1940s and 1950s, and as with any set dates there is always some overlap of the style. However 'Noir' style films from 1960 and on have been labeled 'Neo-Noir'. (See list below top 100) Elements of 'Film Noir': - Night-time city streets; morally weak private eye, detective, or other protagonist; femme fatale (a beautiful but treacherous woman); crime of passion or money; high-contrast lighting and distorted shadows; paranoia; corruption; an ill-fated relationship; narrative in the "first-person". Any mixture or slight variation of this soup of elements constitutes a "Noir" film. (A precise definition has never been set in stone) Criteria: - These Greatest 'Film Noir' Movies were chosen for their direction, acting, storyline, cinematography, box office success and popularity. These films were NOT chosen for how highly rated they are overall, but how they rate in the subject of "Film Noir Movies". -
IMDB Classic Film Board - Top 100 Film Noir
Favs/dislikes: 10:0. Top 100 classic film noir titles according to poll of the imdb Classic Film board members August, 2007. -
Criterion Collection Themes - Noir and Neonoir
Favs/dislikes: 9:0. Some call it a genre, others a movement, or even a fashion statement, but however one defines noir, with its signature femmes fatales, wisecracking tough guys, and dramatic, high-contrast cinematography, its appeal never seems to wane. Though its origins are in German expressionism and French crime films of the thirties, film noir has always been a distinctly American film movement, influenced and shaped as it was by American pulp fiction, wartime gender politics, and postwar nuclear anxieties. And since its forties and fifties heyday, the legacy of noir has spread everywhere—from Kurosawa (High and Low) to the French new wave (Alphaville) to the proliferation of “neonoirs” in the eighties (Coup de torchon) and nineties (Insomnia). Color may have seeped into noir’s rich gray palette over the years, but some things never change: anxiety, disillusionment, panic. -
CriterionForum Lists Project - 1970s
Favs/dislikes: 9:0. This list was compiled at criterionforum.org in June 2008. -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Movies of the 2000s
Favs/dislikes: 9:0. These Greatest Movies of the '00s chosen for their quality direction, script, cinematography, acting, storyline, originality, and success. -
Maltin's 100+ Recommended Family Films
Favs/dislikes: 9:0. From Maltin's "Movie and Video Guide" -
Martin Scorsese's "My Voyage to Italy"
Favs/dislikes: 9:0. Films mentioned/discussed in Scorsese's documentary "My Voyage to Italy" -
CriterionForum Lists Project - Film Noir
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Animated Movies
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. Criterion: Influence, Impact on Animated Cinema, Cultural Impact, Innovation, Popularity, Animation Quality. This list includes Animated films of all genres and styles, this includes: Standard Animated Films, CGI Animated Films, Stop Motion Animated Films, Rotoscope or Trace Animated Films, Live Action/Animated Films, R and X Rated Animated Films, Anime and other Foreign Animated Films, Made For Video/TV Animated Films. -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Comedy Movies
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. These Greatest Comedy Movies are rated by how much they make you laugh, comedic storyline and situations, witty and/or satirical dialogue, and comedic visuals. -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Foreign Movies
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. Criteria: - These are the Greatest Foreign (Non English Language) Movies chosen for their quality direction, script, cinematography, acting, storyline, originality, and success. Title - (Year, Country, Director) (Actors) -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Gangster Movies
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. These Greatest 'Gangster Movies' were chosen for their storyline, acting, direction, popularity and box office success. These films were NOT chosen for how highly rated they are overall, but how they rate in the subject of "Gangster Movies." -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Movies of the 30s
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. Criteria: - These Greatest Movies of the '30s chosen for their quality direction, script, cinematography, acting, storyline, originality, and success. -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Movies of the 40s
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. Criteria: - These Greatest Movies of the '40s chosen for their quality direction, script, cinematography, acting, storyline, originality, and success. -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Movies of the 50s
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. Criteria: - These Greatest Movies of the 1950s chosen for their quality direction, script, cinematography, acting, storyline, originality, and success. -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Silent Movies
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. Background: - Between 1860 and 1895 silent films were short novelty attractions at fairs, and in Kinetescope parlors. In 1895 the first public showing by the newly invented 'film projector' allowed an 'audience' to view films. The first 'feature-length' films came out in 1913, and in the new "Age of the Silver Screen" producers from the U.S.A, France, Russia, and Germany created the most successful silent movies. Recorded sound effects and music began to be added to feature films in 1926. 'The Jazz Singer' (1927) was the first mostly silent feature film to include some synchronized dialogue. 'The Lights of New York' (1928), was the first all-synchronized-sound feature length movie. Over the next few years, the number of silent movies decreased as more films used the new sound technology. Criteria: - These Greatest Silent Movies were chosen for their direction, acting, storyline, cinematography, originality, box office success and popularity. Plus their historical importance & innovativeness in the infancy of motion pictures. -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Sport Movies
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. These Greatest Sport Movies were chosen for their direction, acting, storyline, cinematography, box office success and popularity. These films were NOT chosen for how highly rated they are overall, but how they rate in the subject of "Sport Movies". (Not included sports are: martial arts, gladiators, chess, rodeo, which are included in some other "Sport Movie" lists.) -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest War Movies
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. These are the Greatest War Movies - 20th Century Conflicts, chosen for their quality direction, script, cinematography, acting, storyline, originality, and success. This list DOES NOT INCLUDE wars before 1900. (Civil War, Napoleonic Wars, etc.)
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