User:Nhl4hamilton/Favflicks

Currently working on 2-screenplays. Creative writing has always been my forte. I like to watch the old classics and study from the masters.

13 favorite flicks
1. The Maltese Falcon, (1941), starring Humphrey Bogart 2. Star Wars original trilogy, (1977), (1980), (1983), Starring Harrison Ford, directed by George Lucas 3. The Time Machine, (1960), written by H.G. Wells 4. The Matrix, (1999), starring Keanu Reeves, directed by The Wachowski brothers 5. The Man Who Fell to Earth, (1976), starring Rock star David Bowie 6. Citizen Kane, (1941), starring & directed by Orson Welles 7. Scarface, (1983), starring Al Pacino 8. Metropolis, (1927), directed by Fritz Lang 9. The Wizard of Oz, (1939), starring Judy Garland 10. The Thief of Bagdad, (1924), starring & produced by Douglas Fairbanks 11. War of the Worlds, (2005), directed by Steven Spielberg 12. Sunrise, (1927), is German director F. W. Murnau's compelling American debut - his first project for Hollywood's Fox Film Corporation (and William Fox), but planned in Germany. It was the first feature film released with sound-on-film - with a synchronized Movietone musical score by Hugo Riesenfeld.... starring George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston 13. Koyaanisqatsi, (1983), Director: Godfrey Reggio...A powerful, unconventional, experimental and provocative script-less, actor-less, and dialogue-less film (except for the chanting of Hopi prophecy at the end), from director Godfrey Reggio - his first attempt at a feature-length narrative film. Considered both revolutionary and pretentious, this unique work with incredible, expert time-lapse photography is insightful about humankind and our relationship to nature, and explores the world in ways we usually never see due to our limited perceptions. The title was taken from a Hopi Indian word, meaning, among other things, "Life (a world) out of balance." This hypnotic, multimedia film supported by both Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas illustrates the collision of the natural world with urban, technological life and civilization.

Gangster flicks
Warner Bros. was considered the gangster studio par excellence, and the star- triumvirate of Warners' gangster cycle, all actors who established and defined their careers in this genre, included:

Others who were early gangster stars included Paul Muni and George Raft. Greatest Early Crime and Gangster Films:
 * Edward G. Robinson
 * James Cagney
 * Humphrey Bogart

The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) -- Regeneration (1915) -- Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922-23) -- Underworld (1927) -- Lights of New York (1928) -- The Racket (1928) -- The Big House (1930) -- Little Caesar (1931) -- Bad Company (1931) -- M|M (1931, German) -- The Public Enemy (1931) -- I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) -- Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932) -- The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) -- Manhattan Melodrama (1934) -- G-Men (1935) -- Bullets or Ballots (1936) -- The Petrified Forest (1936) -- Dead End (1937) -- Marked Woman (1937) -- Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) -- Each Dawn I Die -- The Roaring Twenties (1939) -- They Drive by Night (1940) -- High Sierra (1941) -- The Glass Key (1942) -- This Gun for Hire (1942) -- Double Indemnity (1944) -- Detour (1945) -- Dillinger (1945) -- The Big Sleep (1946) -- The Killers (1946) -- The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) -- Brute Force (1947) -- Kiss of Death (1947) -- Out of the Past (1947) -- T-Men (1947) -- Force of Evil (1948) -- Key Largo (1948) -- Raw Deal (1948) -- They Live By Night (1949) -- White Heat (1949) -- The Asphalt Jungle (1950) -- Gun Crazy (1950) -- The Enforcer (1951) -- The Lavender Hill Mob (1951, UK) -- Strangers on a Train (1951) -- The Big Heat (1953) -- On the Waterfront (1954) -- The Big Combo (1955) -- Rififi (1955) -- The Killing (1956) -- The Defiant Ones (1958) -- Touch of Evil (1958) -- Anatomy of a Murder (1959) -- The FBI Story (1959)

Recent actors who established and defined their careers in this genre, include:
 * Robert De Niro
 * Al Pacino

Other gangster stars include: James Gandolfini, Michael Madsen & Joe Pesci. Recent Crime and Gangster Films:

Cape Fear (1962) -- Underworld USA (1961) -- The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) -- Bonnie and Clyde (1967) -- Cool Hand Luke (1967) -- In Cold Blood (1967) -- In the Heat of the Night (1967) -- Point Blank (1967) -- The Brotherhood (1968) -- Bullitt (1968) -- The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) -- The Italian Job (1969) -- Dirty Harry (1971) -- The French Connection (1971) -- Get Carter (1971) -- Shaft (1971) -- The Godfather (1972) -- The Hot Rock (1972) -- Shaft's Big Score! (1972) -- Badlands (1973) -- Dillinger (1973) -- Mean Streets (1973) -- Serpico (1973) -- Shaft in Africa (1973) -- The Godfather, Part II (1974) -- Thieves Like Us (1974) -- Dog Day Afternoon (1975) -- French Connection II (1975) -- Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) -- Taxi Driver (1976) -- The Long Good Friday (1980) -- Raging Bull (1980) -- Fort Apache: The Bronx (1981) -- Prince of the City (1981) -- 48 Hrs. (1982) -- Blood Simple (1983) -- Scarface (1983) -- Once Upon a Time in America (1984) -- Prizzi's Honor (1985) -- Manhunter (1986) -- Lethal Weapon (1987) -- The Untouchables (1987) -- Things Change (1988) -- Dick Tracy (1990) -- The Godfather, Part III (1990) -- GoodFellas (1990) -- Miller's Crossing (1990) -- Q & A (1990) -- Bugsy (1991) -- Cape Fear (1991) -- JFK (1991) -- One Good Cop (1991) -- The Silence of the Lambs (1991) -- Basic Instinct (1992) -- Hoffa (1992) -- Reservoir Dogs (1992) -- A Bronx Tale (1993) -- Carlito's Way (1993) -- In the Line of Fire (1993) -- Heavenly Creatures (1994, NZ) -- Natural Born Killers (1994) -- The Professional (Fr.) (1994) -- Pulp Fiction (1994) -- The Shawshank Redemption (1994) -- Casino (1995) -- Clockers (1995) -- Heat (1995) -- Se7en (1995) -- The Usual Suspects (1995) -- Bound (1996) -- Fargo (1996) -- Donnie Brasco (1997) -- Jackie Brown (1997) -- L. A. Confidential (1997) -- The Big Lebowski (1998) -- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) -- Out of Sight (1998) -- A Simple Plan (1998) -- The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) -- Traffic (2000)

Time travel
The Time Machine (1960) -- La Jetee (1962) -- Superman (1978) -- Time After Time (1979) -- The Final Countdown (1980) -- Somewhere in Time (1980) -- Time Bandits (1981) -- The Philadelphia Experiment (1984) -- The Terminator (1984) -- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) -- Back to the Future (1985) -- Back to the Future II (1989) -- Back to the Future III (1990) -- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) -- Total Recall (1990) -- Freejack (1992) -- Timecop (1994) -- 12 Monkeys (1995) -- Star Trek: First Contact (1996) -- Retroactive (1997) -- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) -- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) -- Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) -- Timeline (2004) -- The Time Machine (2002) -- Timequest (2002) -- The Butterfly Effect (2004) -- Déjà Vu (2006) -- Next (2007)

Sci Fi notables
A Trip to the Moon (France, 1902) -- Metropolis (1927) -- The Woman in the Moon (1929) -- Just Imagine (1930) -- Doctor X (1932) -- The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) -- Things to Come (1936) -- Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers (1936) -- Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938) -- Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940) -- The Purple Monster Strikes (1945) -- The Thing From Another World (1951) -- The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) -- The Man from Planet X (1951) -- When Worlds Collide (1951) -- It Came From Outer Space (1953) -- House of Wax (1953) -- Invaders from Mars (1953) -- This Island Earth (1955) -- Conquest of Space (1955) -- Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) -- Not of This Earth (1957) -- Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) -- I Married a Monster From Outer Space (1958) Alien (1979) -- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) -- E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) -- Independence Day (1996) -- War of the Worlds (2005) -- Verne and Wells Derivatives:

Many SF films were (and still are) a futuristic combination of the work of visionaries Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. One of the earliest adapted US/Hollywood science fiction films was Mysterious Island (1929) - the filmed version of Jules Verne's 19th century novel with a Lost Atlantis theme.

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