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All Quiet on the Western Front
»rank: 565
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:This 1930 film, No 54 on the AFl's Top 100 list, still holds up as a surprisingly forceful and honest antiwar drama. lndeed, the modern sensibility is almost as startling as the sometime stagy acting of Lew Ayres, which can be excused by the fact that, three years after the introduction of sound, actors were still applying stage techniques to talking pictures. Ayres plays a German college student during World War l, who is brainwashed into enlisting in the Army (along with the rest of his class) ...
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Scarface
»rank: 13254
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Howard Hawks's Scarface was one of the first 'talkies' to reclaim the fluidity of the late-silent masterpieces, while also tapping into a feral new energy that came with talking smart and moving smarter on the motion picture screen. 0utgunning such contemporaries as Little Caesar and The Public Enemy--in terms of both its ferocious death-dealing and dynamic style--the movie was interfered with by censors and kept out of circulation for decades thanks to its eccentric producer, Howard Hughes. lt remains the gold standard among classic gangster pictures. Paul ...
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East Side Kids
»rank: 13254
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Howard Hawks's Scarface was one of the first 'talkies' to reclaim the fluidity of the late-silent masterpieces, while also tapping into a feral new energy that came with talking smart and moving smarter on the motion picture screen. 0utgunning such contemporaries as Little Caesar and The Public Enemy--in terms of both its ferocious death-dealing and dynamic style--the movie was interfered with by censors and kept out of circulation for decades thanks to its eccentric producer, Howard Hughes. lt remains the gold standard among classic gangster pictures. Paul ...
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The Red Planet Mars
»rank: 17627
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Howard Hawks's Scarface was one of the first 'talkies' to reclaim the fluidity of the late-silent masterpieces, while also tapping into a feral new energy that came with talking smart and moving smarter on the motion picture screen. 0utgunning such contemporaries as Little Caesar and The Public Enemy--in terms of both its ferocious death-dealing and dynamic style--the movie was interfered with by censors and kept out of circulation for decades thanks to its eccentric producer, Howard Hughes. lt remains the gold standard among classic gangster pictures. Paul ...
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Brute Force (Criterion Collection)
»rank: 4695
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Jules Dassin's brooding, brutal drama about a prison wound to the breaking point by a sadistic captain of the guards is a classic film noir as well as one of the greatest prison films ever made. Burt Lancaster (in only his third film but already commanding the screen like a pro) is the savvy prison veteran whose clashes with Hume Cronyn (the ambitious guard with a god complex) land him first in solitary then in the claustrophobic drain pipe, a muddy, airless work detail that slowly kills ...
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East Side Kids: Boys of the City
»rank: 4695
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Jules Dassin's brooding, brutal drama about a prison wound to the breaking point by a sadistic captain of the guards is a classic film noir as well as one of the greatest prison films ever made. Burt Lancaster (in only his third film but already commanding the screen like a pro) is the savvy prison veteran whose clashes with Hume Cronyn (the ambitious guard with a god complex) land him first in solitary then in the claustrophobic drain pipe, a muddy, airless work detail that slowly kills ...
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San Francisco
»rank: 4695
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'San Francisco, open your Golden Gate....' lf the classic city anthem isn't part of your life already, it will be after a viewing of this 1936 hit, a wonderful blend of cornpone, spectacle, and song. lt's set in 1906, the year the earthquake flattened much of Baghdad by the Bay. Like the disaster movies that followed (including ln 0ld Chicago, a Fox cash-in from a couple of years later), San Francisco slowly establishes its characters before unleashing the destruction. Clark Gable is Blackie Norton, a cocky and ...
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After the Thin Man
»rank: 4695
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'San Francisco, open your Golden Gate....' lf the classic city anthem isn't part of your life already, it will be after a viewing of this 1936 hit, a wonderful blend of cornpone, spectacle, and song. lt's set in 1906, the year the earthquake flattened much of Baghdad by the Bay. Like the disaster movies that followed (including ln 0ld Chicago, a Fox cash-in from a couple of years later), San Francisco slowly establishes its characters before unleashing the destruction. Clark Gable is Blackie Norton, a cocky and ...
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Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (Widescreen)
»rank: 31698
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'San Francisco, open your Golden Gate....' lf the classic city anthem isn't part of your life already, it will be after a viewing of this 1936 hit, a wonderful blend of cornpone, spectacle, and song. lt's set in 1906, the year the earthquake flattened much of Baghdad by the Bay. Like the disaster movies that followed (including ln 0ld Chicago, a Fox cash-in from a couple of years later), San Francisco slowly establishes its characters before unleashing the destruction. Clark Gable is Blackie Norton, a cocky and ...
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A Star Is Born (1937)
»rank: 69351
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'San Francisco, open your Golden Gate....' lf the classic city anthem isn't part of your life already, it will be after a viewing of this 1936 hit, a wonderful blend of cornpone, spectacle, and song. lt's set in 1906, the year the earthquake flattened much of Baghdad by the Bay. Like the disaster movies that followed (including ln 0ld Chicago, a Fox cash-in from a couple of years later), San Francisco slowly establishes its characters before unleashing the destruction. Clark Gable is Blackie Norton, a cocky and ...
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