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Drama

 

Adventures of Sebastian Cole, the   D: Todd Williams '99

Age of Innocence, the D: Martin Scorsese '93

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore  D: Martin Scorsese ( The movie the tv show 'Alice' was based on) '74

Apostle, the  D: Robert Duval (Small town preacher on the run from the law, murder and redemption) '97

Atlantic City   D: Louis Malle (Romance between older man and younger woman, set at the boardwalk) '81

About Schmidt  D: Alexander Payne (Jack Nicolson in late-mid-life crisis road flick) 2003

Adaptation   D: Spike Jonze ( Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper) 2002

 

Bamboozled   D: Spike Lee (Something to offend everyone) 2000

Bear, The  D: Jean-Jacques Annaud (Beautifully shot and told) '89

Beautiful Mind, A  D: Ron Howard (Nobel Prize winner turned coo-coo John Nash) 2000

Before Night Falls  D: Julian Schnabel (About gay cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas) 2000

Blue Collar   D:Paul Schrader (with Richard Pryor in strong dramatic role) '78

Brubaker  D: Stuart Rosenberg ( Robert Redford as a new reform minded warden who 1st sneaks in as prisoner) '80

Badge, the      D: Robby Henson  (w/Billy Bob Thorton)  2002

Believer, the   D: Henry Bean  (based on actual person who was a Jewish nazi-skinhead) 2001

Business of Strangers, the  D: Patrick Stettner  2002

Butterfield 8  D:Daniel Mann (Elizabeth Taylor as a hooker trying to go straight) '60

 

CopLand   D:James Mangold (all star cast about corrupt Jersey town founded by corrupt NYPD) '97

Charly    D: Ralph Nelson  (based on Flowers for Algernon) '66

Chattahoochee  D: Mick Jackson (Gary Oldman & Dennis Hopper @ insane asylum)true story '89

China Syndrom, the   D: James Bridges (power plant melt down thriller w/ Jane Fonda) '79

Coming Home  D:  Hal Ashby  (Vietnam movie about returning vet's affair with a married woman) '78

Colors D: Dennis Hopper  (Sean Penn & Robert Duval)

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind  D: Geo. Clooney (Chuck "Gong Show" Barris (who claimed he was a spy) Story) 2002

 

Dangerous Liaisons   D: Steven Frears '88

Death of A Salesman D: Volker Schondorff (Hoffman and Malkovich give great performances) '86

Devils, the   D: Ken Russell  (one of his best - set during the inquisition in a nunnery) '71

Devil's Advocate  D: Taylor Hackford '97

Dancer in the Dark  D: Lars Von Trier ( w/ Bjork as a factory worker lost in musicals and going blind -heartwrenching) '99

Dog Day Afternoon   D: Sidney Lumet (true story of a Brooklyn bank robbery gone awry w/ Al Pachino) very good '75

Dreamchild   D:Gavin Millar  (based around 'real' Alice; from Wonderland) Jim Henson FX '85

 

Eight Men Out  D:  John Sayles    (Black Sox World Series Scandal) '88

 

Faces    D: John Cassavettes '68

Fargo   D: Joel Coen  (William H. Macy, Steve Buschemie, Francese McDormet; Murder in North Dakota) '96

Fat City   D: John Huston ( w/ Stacy Keech, Jeff Bridges, about boxing) '72

Fat Man & Little Boy   D: Roland Joffe (All star cast / How the Bomb was made) '89

Field of Deams  D:Phil Alden Robinson  (farmer builds a baseball park on his field after hearing voices) '89

Five Corners D; Tony Bill (Jodie Foster, John Turturro, Tim Robbins)  '92

Front, the  D: Martin Ritt  (Woody Allen and others star ; about 50s commiewitch hunts) '76

 

Gangs of New York  D: Martin Scorcesse  (Brutal gangs and revenge in 1880s NYC)

Glengarry Glenross  D: James Foley  (All star cast in Mamet drama about real-estate salesmen on the skids) '92

Ghost World   D:Terry Zwiegoff    (based of the Daniel Clowse comic strip from 8ball)

Gods & Monsters  D: Bill Condon (about James Whale director of Frankenstien and Bride of...) '98

Goodfellas  D: Martin Scorsesee (true story mob epic w/ R. De Nero, J. Pesci, R. Liotta) 

 

Hard Eight  D: P.T. Anderson  (Anderson's (Boogie Nights) first movie) '96

Hamlet   D: Franco Zeffirelli  (w/ Mel Gibson, Helina Bottom Carter, Glen Close) '90

Hoosiers         D: David Anspaugh   (Timothy Hutton, Gene Hackman, Dennis Hopper) '86

 

I Shot Andy Warhol   D: Mary Harron  (about Valerie Solanas, creater of S.C.U.M. - who shot Warhol) '96

Ice Storm, the  D: Ang Lee 

In the Bedroom  D; Todd Field 2001

Iron Weed  D: Hector Babenco     (skid row Albany during 1930s w/ J.Nickolson, M.Streep & T. Waits)

Invisibles, the   D: Noah Stern  '99

 

Jesus' Son      D: Alison Maclean    '99

Joe Gould's Secret  D: Stanley Tucci  2000

 

King of Marvin Gardens    D: Bob Rafelson  (Jack Nickolson & Bruce Dern) '72

 

 

"Lenny"       D: Bob Fosse (Dustan Hoffman gives convincing performance in title role) '74

L.I.E.                         D:                       (w/ Brian Cox, about young male hustlers)

Lolita        D: Adrian Lyne (not as good as  Kubrik, or Nabakov, but not bad) '97

Los Ojos De Un Nino    D:                        

 

Marat Sade D: Peter Brook  (Royal Shakespearean Co. under the direction of Marquee DeSade) '67

Midnight Cowboy  D: John Schlesinger (John Voit and Dustan Hoffman the only X to win best pic.) '69

Magnolia  D:  P.T. Anderson  (3rd p.t.a. film with his many regs. and some new faces) '99

Man on the Moon   D: Milos Forman  (Andy Kaufman bio-flick w/Jim Carry) '99

Midnight Express D: Alan Parker  (true story of why you should never smuggle hash out of Turkey) '78

Mission, the  D: Rollin Joffe (De Niro and Jeremy Irons missionaries in South Am.1700s) '86

Mosquito Coast,the   D: Peter Weir (w/Harrison Ford, River Phoenix  -ice is civilization) '86

Ma Vie en Rose D: Alain Berliner   ('My Life in Pink', gender-bender about young boy)

Monsoon Wedding    D: Mira Nair  2002

My Wife is an Actress  D:  Yvan Attal   (ma femme est une actrice) 2001

 

Naked Civil Servant, the  D: Jack Gold  (John Hurt as Quentin Crisp, gay rights champion) '75

Name of the Rose, the  D: Jean-Jacques Anaud (from the Umberto Eco novel, w/ Sean Connery) '86

Naked Lunch  D: David Cronenberg  (Peter Weller stars in movie from Burroghs book) '91

Night Moves  D:  Arthur Penn   (Gene Hackman as hard boiled privet eye) '75

NorthFork   D: Michael Polish   (Polish Bro. 3rd, in "town name trilogy" w/James Woods)

 

Ode to Billy Joe  D: Max Baer (from song to movie - with new shocking twist) '76

One From The Heart  D: Frances Ford Coppola  (score by Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle)

Out of the Blue D:Dennis Hopper (daddy's a looser and his daughter is following his path) '80

 

Pandemonium  D: Julian Temple  (about Collrage & Wordsworth & drugs) 2001

Paper Chase,the   D: James Bridges (Timothy Bottoms in law school dramady) '73

Philadelphia      D:Jonathan Demme    (w/Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington) '93

Picnic at Hanging Rock  D: Peter Weir (based on true story of several girls who went missing at a picnic) '75 LTBX

Player, the   D: Robert Altman  ( w/Tim Robins as movie exec. involved in murder) '92

Play Misty for Me  D: Clint Eastwood  (good thriller about radioDJ (Clint) and his stalker) '71

Prick Up Your Ears  D:Steven Frears (Gary Oldman and Alfread Molina;  about playwright Joe Orton) '87

 

Quills         D:  Philip Kaufman    (Geoffrey Rush as Marquis DeSade) '99

Quitting      D:  Zhang Yang   (Japanese movie about dysfunctional family and son) 2001

 

Raging Bull      D: Martin Scorsese   (w/De Niro & Pesci,  Jake LaMotta story, boxer) '80

Rainbow, the  D: Ken Russell    (Ken Russell does D.H. Lawrence) '89

Romeo & Juliet   D: Baz Luhrmann  (slick update with Leo Decaprio & Claire Danes)

Rumble Fish    D: Francis Ford Coppola '83

 

Salvador   D: Oliver Stone   (James Woods as photo-journalist in El Salvador) '86

Saturday Night Fever  D: John Badham  (the film, the craze, the white suite) '77

Secret of Roan Inish, the  D: John Sayles  (Tales of Mer-folk in Ireland) '93

Smoke  D: Wayne Wang  (Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Forest Witaker)

A Soldier's Story      D: Norman Jewison   (murder mystery takes place during segregation era army) '84

Stonewall    D: Nigel Finch  (dramady about the era of Stonewall Riots - gay rights) '95

Streamers      D: Robert Altman '83

Straight out of Brooklyn  D: Matty Rich (Rich's debut, gritty drama about teens-n-hood) '91

Safety of Objects. the  D: Rose Troche  2003

 

Talented Mr. Ripley, the   D: Anthony Minghella '99 

Talk Radio  D: Oliver Stone  (about hated radio talk show host) '88

Taps     D: Harold Becker  (Tim Hutton, Sean Penn, cadets take over military school) '81

Taxi Driver   D: Martin Scorsese   (psst.  I think he's talking to you) '76

Tender Mercies D; Bruce Beresford  (Robert Duval plays a troubled family man and country singer) '83               

Tribute   D:  Bob Clark   (Jack Lemmon give fine performance) '80

Twin Falls Idaho D: Michael Polish (Polish bros.1st film; conjoined twins in love with hooker) '99

 

What's Eating Gilbert Grape  D: Lasse Hallstrom  '93

Waiting for the Moon   D: Jill Godmilow   (about Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein) '87

Walkabout  D:Nicolase Roag  LTBX (Aboriginal boy guides two lost kids to safety) great '71

Water Engine,the   D: Steven Schachter  (from the David Mamet play w/ William H. Macy) '92

Whore       D: Ken Russell     '91  

 

Zed & Two Naughts, A  D: Peter Greenaway  (strange story of twin brothers and a zoo) '88

 


            Comedy

 

After Hours   D: Martin Scorsese (A date gone bad leaves Griffen Dunne stranded in an unfamiliar neighborhood) '85

Amateur  D: Hal Hartley '94

Amazon Women on the Moon  D:Joe Dante, John Landis and others (Spoof on late night tv with many cameos) '87

American Beauty   D:  Sam Mendes (Kevin Spacey in a better than average mid-life crisis movie) '99

American Graffiti D: George Lucas  (set in '63, great cast with many stars, great oldies soundtrack) a must '73

American Splendor D: Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman (Story about Harvey Pekar) 2003

Andy Kaufman - I'm From Hollywood  (Chronicles Andy's wrestling career)

Andy Kaufman  - The Andy Kaufman Show  tv (from PBS's 'Soundstage')

Andy Kaufman - The Midnight Special  tv

 

Best in Show   D: Christopher Guest (usual ensemble cast takes on show dog circuit) very funny 2000

Blue in the Face  D: Wayne Wang & Paul Auster (made with leftover budget from "Smoke" with lots od cameos '95

Boogie Nights  D: P.T. Anderson (the height and then waning years of 70s-80s porn w/ big cast, great songs) '97

Bottle Rocket  D:  Wes Anderson (child hood friends with big plans get waylaid at a desert motel; Anderson's 1st) '95

Buffalo 66 D:Vincent Gallo (w/ Gallo & Christina Ricci) '99

 

Cabin Boy    D: Adam Resnick (Chris Elliot stars in fantasy film homage) '94

Caddyshack  D: Harold Ramis (Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfeild, Bill Murray, Ted Knight) '80

Candy Mountain   D: Robert Frank (many cameos incld. Tom Waits, David Johansen) '80

Catch-22   D: Mike Nicoles (Joseph Heller's defiant book becomes sprawling movie) '70

Christmas Story,A  D: Bob Clark (charming story of a boy's attempts to secure a bee-bee gun for Christmas) '83

 

Diner   D:  Barry Levinson (all star cast of would-be's to many to mention - funny comeing of age film) '82

Down by Law   D:  Jim Jarmusch  (great 2nd movie from Jarmusch with Roberto Bennini, Tom Waits and John Lurie) '86

Down With Love   D:  Peyton Reed  (Renee Zellweger & Ewan Mcgregor) 2003

Dumb & Dumber   D: Farrelly brothers '94

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid   D: Carl Reiner  (Steve Martin film-noir homage) '82

Defending Your Life D: Albert Brooks (After death, we go to a processing station!) '91

 

Ed Wood    D:Tim Burton  (Johnny Depp, Martin Landu, Sarah Jessica Parker, Bill Murray)  '94

 

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas  D: Terry Gilliam  (Johnny Depp as Hunter S. Tompson) '98

Fireman's Ball  D:  Milos Forman (Comedy of errors durring a retierment party) '68

Flirt   D: Hal Hartly '95

Fight Club  D: David Fincher

 

Happiness   D:  Todd Solondz               (disturbingly funny - funnily disturbing) '96

Harry & Tonto D: Paul Mazursky  (Bittersweet comedy about an old man (Art Carney) and his cat) '74

Heaven Help Us  D: Michael Dinner  (catholic school comedy set in the early 60s) '85

Henry Fool  D: Hal Hartley  (a garbage man inspired by a stranger in town writes a poem that changes the world) '98

High Fidelity  D:  Steven Frears    (John Cusack, Jack Black -indi record store owner contemplates love/relationships)2000                  

Household Saints  D; Nancy Savoca '93

How to Get Ahead in Advertising  D: Bruce Robinson  (What if your zit grew into your doppleganger) '89

 

Incredible Shrinking Woman, the  D: Joel Schumacher  (Lilly Tomlan & Charles Groden) '81

I'm Gonna Get You Sucka  D: Keenen Ivory Wayans  (Blaxploit satire/homage) '88

 

Johnny Suede   D: Tom Dicillo (w/ Brad Pitt) '92

 

King of Comedy  D: Martin Scorsese  (w/ De Niro & Jerry Lewis, obsessed fan comedy) '82

King of Hearts  D: Philippe de Broca  '66

King Pin  D: Peter & Bobby Farrelly  ( Bill Murray & Woody Haroldson) '96

Kissing Jessica Stein   D: Charles Herman - Wurmfeld  2002

Knack & How to Get It, the   D: Richard Lester (60s brit. Mod comedy) '65

 

Last American Virgin, the  D: Boaz Davidson  (80s teen-sex tragacomedy, good soundtrack) '82 

Last Remake of Beau Geste  D: Marty Feldman,   (Foreign Legion Comedy) '77

Lonely Guy D: Arthur Hiller   (w/ Steve Martin  &  Charles Groden)

 

M*A*S*H*  D: Robert Altman  (the movie-from a book- that started the tv series) '70

Man of the Century   D: Adam Abraham   (inventive homage to those 20s news-man screwballs w/ Gibson Frazier)

Miss. Firecracker  D:Thomas Schlamme  (Small town woman with 'bad rep' enters local beauty contest) '89

Moderns, the  D: Alan Rudolph  (Good w/many people about art forgery in 20s-30s Paris) '88

Modern Romance  D: Albert Brooks   (Albert Brooks looks at Relationships) '81

My Dinner With Andre  D: Louis Malle  (Wallace Shawn & Andre Gregory) '81

Midsummer Night's Dream, A  D: Michael Hoffman  (many people incld. Kevin Kline) '99

Mighty Wind, A   D: Christopher Guest  (usual gang takes on 60s folk reunions) funny 2003

Monty Python's - the meaning of life  D: Terry Jones  '83

 

National Lampoon's:  Vacation  D: Harold Ramis (Chevey Chase, Beverley D'Angelo) '83

National Lampoon's: European Vacation  D: Amy Heckerling (Same Parents- different kids?) '85

1941  D: Steven Speilberg  (John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd and many others) '79 LTBX

Navigator, the  D: Vincent Ward  (A time-travel adventure from New Zealand) '88

No Such Thing D: Hal Hartley  (cruel tabloid tv show sends office flunky to Iceland to find real monster) 2002

Nutty Professor, the  D: Jerry Lewis  (Jerry Lewis classic take of on Dr. Jeykell...) '63

 

O'Brother, Where Art Thou?  D: Coen Brothers  ("Modern" retelling of the Odyssey. set durring 30s depression)2002

Oh, God!   D: Carl Reiner (John Denver as grocery store manager, Geo.Burns as God) '77

Out-of-Towners  D: Aurther Hiller  (Jack Lemon goes through hell in nyc for job interview; Neil Simon comedy) '70

 

Pumpkin  D: A. Broder & T. Abrams  (perfect sorority girl Christina Ricci falls for 'Special Olympian' Hank Harris)'02

Punch Drunk Love  D: P.T. Anderson  (4th film from p.t.a. w/ Adam Sandler)

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure  D: Tim Burton  (Classic Pee-Wee & Burton w/ commentary) '85

Pretty in Pink   D: John Hughes  (Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy,John Cryer)

Peggy Sue Got Married  D: Francis Ford Coppola  '86

Producers, the    D: Mell Brooks  (Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel, very zany) '68

Prairie Home Companion, A - the last show   t.v. (P.H.C. left the air in 1987, it came back)

 

Quick Change    D: Bill Murray & Howard Franklin   (Bill Murray, Gina Davis, Randy Quaid) '90

 

Real Genius     D: Martha Coolidge (goofy 80s about geeky collage kids - w/ Val Kilmer) '85

Real Life    D: Albert Brooks   (his first and one of his best, with many laughs) '79

Richard Pryor - here & now  D:                              (concert film of R.P.at his best)

Richard Pryor - live & smokin'   D:                          (club footage of early R.P.)

Risky Business   D: Paul Brickman  (young Tom Cruise turns pimp while parents are away) '83

Roadside Prophets  D: Abbe Wool   (John Doe & Adam Horovitz on motorcycles) '92

Road to Wellville, the   D: Alan Parker  (very funny movie about health guru Kellogg) '94

Room Service      D: William A Seiter (Marx Brothers  w/young Lucy Ball) '38

Rosalie Goes Shopping   D: Percy Adion (satire about American consumerism) '89

Royal Tenenbaums  D: Wes Anderson

Rushmore         D: Wes Anderson '98

 

Say Anything  D: Cameron Crowe  (John Cusack & Ione Sky in teen-angst love story) good '89

Schizopolis   D: Steven Soderbergh  (very strange and funny - too hard to explain) '97

Scotland PA   D:                    (w/ Christopher Walken, Macbeth in 70s PA fast-food motif)

Shampoo    D: Hal Ashby     (Warren Beaty as hair stylist to the rich and famous) '75

Simon   D: Marshall Brickman    (Alan Arkin as nyu Prof. who thinks he's an E.T.) '80

Simple Men  D:  Hal Hartley '92

Sixteen Candles  D: John Hughes  (non-gritty comedy about teens-n-suburbia, classic 80s) '84

Slacker  D: Richard Linklater  (stream -of- consciousness comedy set in Austin tx) '91

Slums of Beverly Hills  D: Tamara Jenkins (funny coming of age in 70s LA w/ good cast) '98

Smile   D: Michael Ritchie  (comedy about teen beauty pageants) '75

Stripes   D:  Harold Ramis         (Bill Murray as misfit who goes into the Army) '81

Something Wild   D: Jonathan Demme '83

Stranger than Paradise  D: Jim Jarmusch      (Jarmusch's first feature) '84

Steve Martin Live                                     (Concert of S.M. in his hey-day, with short)

Surviving Desire  D:  Hal Hartley

Sweetie   D: Jane Campion        (Qwerkie Aussie comedy about two sisters, one strange)

 

Three O'Clock High   D: Phil Joanou  (under-appreciated high school comedy) '87

Tin Men   D: Barry Levinson (part of the Baltimore trilogy; this one's about aluminum siding salesmen)

2000 year-old man, the  D:             (animated version of Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner routines)

Take the Money and Run  D: Woody Allen  (Allen's first feature as director - very funny) '69

This is Spinal Tap D: Rob Reiner's 1st (mockrockumentary of worlds loudest/worst band) '84

Trust   D: Hal Hartley  '91

 

UFORIA  D: John Binder  (goofy comedy with Fred Ward, Cindy Williams, Harry Dean Stanton) '81

 

Valley Girl    D: Martha Coolidge  (80s romance-comedy between Punk and Valley Girl) '83

Vampires Kiss  D: Robert Bierman  (Nicholas Cage as business man who thinks he's a vampire) '88

 

Waiting for Guffman   D: Christopher Guest   (community theater in small town America) '96

Wedding Singer, the  D: Frank Coraci  (Adam Sandler & Drew Barrimore set in 80s) '97

What's New Pussycat?  D: Clive Donner  (Woody Allen wrote/stars w/Peters Sellers & O'Toole) '65

What's Up Doc?  Peter Bogdanovich  (tribute to screwball comedies of the 30s-40s w/ Babs and Ryan O'Neil) '72

Which Way Is Up?    D: Clive Donner  (Richard Pryor in several roles) '65

World According to Garp, the  D: George Roy Hill   (one of Robin Williams'  best movies) '82

 

Yours, mine and Ours  D: Melville Shavelson (L. Ball & H. Fonda - singles w/ too many kids meet and marry) '68

 


            Horror (also includes suspense/thriller)

 

Alice Sweet Alice  D: Alfred Sole (B- horror - evil child movie, w/ young Brook Shields) '76

Alucarda    D: Juan Lopez Moctezuma  (High caliber Spanish horror/witch-hunt type film) '75

 

Black Scorpion, The  D: Edward Loudwig (giant bug movie) '57

Blob, the  D: Irvin S. Yeaworth (original w/ Steve McQueen) '58

Bucket of Blood  D: Roger Corman (made on shoestring in 72hrs about wanna-be beatnik artist who'd kill for 1st big break) '59

Bloodsucking Freaks  D: Joel M. Reed  (classic gore/shock) '75

 

Cabin Fever  D: Eli Roth  (Something from every genra of horror/suspense flick - better than average) 2003

Cape Fear  D: Martin Scorsese  (admirable remake of 50s classic w/De Niro & Noltie)

Cat People D: Paul Schrader (Nistashia Kinski and Rodney McDowell -horror-thriller)

Changeling, the   D: Peter Medak (supernatural thriller with Geo.C.Scott) '80

Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things D: Bob Clark  '72  LTBX

Creature from the Black Lagoon     D: Jack Arnold '54

Cthulhu Mansion  D: Juan Piquer Simon  (based on H.P. Lovecraft work) '91

Crimes of Passion  D:  Ken Russell    (Anthony Perkins as skid-row sex crazed preacher) '84

 

Dawn of the a Dead   D: George Romero (2nd in the series, 70s Zombie Classic) '78

Dementia 13     D: Francis Ford Coppila (1st movie) High grade B horror/thriller '63

Devil Rides Out    D: Terence Fisher  (Hammer Horror w/ Christopher Lee)   LTBX

Don't Look in the Basement  D: S.F. Brownrigg  '73

Don't Look Now   D: Nicolas Roeg  (creepy psychic-thriller w/ Donald Sutherland) '73

Dr. Jekyll & Hr. Hyde  D: Rouben Mamoulian  '32

Dreamcatcher    D: Lawrence Kasden  (based on Steven King story) 2002

Donnie Darko D: Richard Kelly  (With a nod to 'Harvey'; a dark tale about a strange boy with visions of a evil rabbit) 2001

 

Exorcist   D: William Friedkin  (the original, anniversary ed. w/behind the scenes stuff) '73

 

Fear No Evil  D: Frank LaLoggia (B-horror with great 80s new wave/punk sound trk) '80

Frailty   D:  Bill Paxton (Nutty Dad sees demons, and hears angles, what's a son to do?)

Freddy vs. Jason D; Ronny Yu  (well it had to happen sometime) 2003

Fright Night    D: Tom Holland  (w/Roddy McDowall) '85

Fear dot.com      D: William Malone 2003

Friday the 13th pt.2   D: Steve Miner '81

Friday the 13th pt. VII -the new blood  D John Cal Buechler '88

 

Gothic  D: Ken Russel  (Russel's take on the 'haunted summer' of Lord Byron & Percy Shelley) '87

 

Halloween  D: John Carpenter   (LTBX) '78

Haunted Palace, the  D: Roger Corman  ( w/Vincent Price) '63

House of 7 Corpses   D: Paul Harrison '73         

House of Whipcord  D: Pete Walker  (Euroshock Collection) '74

 

Invasion of  the Body Snatchers   D: Donald Siegel (original version) '56

Insomnia   D: Christopher Nolan 2002              

 

Jason Goes to Hell  D: Adam Marcus  '93

Jason X  D: Jim Isaac  (Jason in space - funny- better than most of the series) 2002

Jaws               D:  Steven Speilberg  (Giant great white shark terrorizes small tourist community) '75   LTBX

 

Lair of the White Worm, the   D: Ken Russell  (based on the last writings of Bram Stoker) '88

Last House on the Left, the   D: Wes Craven  (1st W.C. movie, caused much controversy) '72

 

Night of the Living Dead D:George Romero (the original zombie classic that started it all) '68

Nosferatu  D: F.W. Murnau  (silent Vampire movie, based on Dracula - still great!) '22

Nosferatu    D: Warner Hertzog    (Kinski stars as vampire in the remake of the original) '79

 

One Hour Photo  D:                           (creepy Robin Williams film - unsettling)

Omen, the   D: Richard Donner  (1st in this series of spawn of Satan movies) '76

Omen IV - the awakening  D: Jorge Montesi  (same Satan, new child, this one's a girl) '91

 

Psychomania   D: Don Sharp (British B-horror about undead motorcycle gang) '73

Pacific Heights D: John Schlesinger (thriller about young couple who rents to the wrong guy) '90

Panic Room  D: David Fincher    (Jodie Foster and daughter fight a home invasion) 2002

 

Rosemary's Baby  D: Roman Polanski    (Very good -n- creepy Spawn of Satin movie) '68

Sentinel, the   D: Michael Winner   (good B-movie horror) '76

Shining, the   D: Mick Garris  tv (lengthier made for tv version, truer to King's novel)

Satan Bug, the    D:                                      (scary germ-warfare movie from the 60s)

Serpent & The Rainbow, the  D: Wes Craven (ethno-botanist in search of zombie powder) '87

Seizure  D: Oliver Stone     (Schlock horror, w/ Herve 'De Plane, De Plane' Valaches '74

Seven   D: David Fincher     (Brad Pitt & Morgan Freeman hunt serial killer)

Shining,the  D: Stanley Kubrick   (Jack Nicholson in best of Steven King movies) '80

Silence of the Lambs D: Jonathan Demme (On hunt 4 serial killer, FBI agent (Foster) interviews psycho (Hoppkins) '91

Squirm       D: Jeff Lieberman  (attack of the killer earth worms - you will squirm) w/ commentary '76

Suspira  D:  Dario Argento   (famous Euro-Shock flick) '77

 

Tales from the Crypt  D: Freddie Francis (Peter Cushing, Joan Collins, Sir Ralph Richardson) '72

Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the  D: Tobe Hooper  (low budget classic with less blood than you'd think) '74

28 Days Later D; Danny Boyle  (Neo-zombie-like movie) 2002

 

Vincent Price -3-in-one D: Various (House on Haunted Hill, The Bat, Last Man on Earth)

 

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane   D: Robert Aldrich  (Betty Davis and Joan Crawford) very good '62

Wolfman, the         D: George Waggner  (classic monster move w/Lon Cheanny Jr.) '41

Willard   D: Glen Morgan   (Crispin Glover in a recent remake of the 70s rat flick) 2002

 


            Science Fiction / Fantasy  

 

Andromeda Strain   D: Robert Wise (another famous plague warfair flick) '71

Anna to the Infinite Power   D: Robert Wiemer (clone flick) '84

 

Barbarella Queen of the Galaxy  D: Rodger Vadim  (Jane Fonda as space vixen out to save the universe) '68

Boy and his Dog, A  D: Justus E. McQueen (Post apocalypse boy and dog hunt for canned food and women) '75

 

Cabin Boy    D: Adam Resnick (Chris Elliot stars in fantasy film homage) '94

Clash of the Titans  D: Desmond Davis (Ray Harryhausen FX of Greek mythology) '81

Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind  D: Steven Speilberg  (special ed.) '77

 

Day of the Dolphin  D: Mike Nicholes (Geo.C.Scott and top secret talking dolphins) '73       

Dreamchild   D:Gavin Millar  (based around 'real' Alice; from Wonderland) Jim Henson FX '85

 

Frighteners, the   D: Peter Jackson  (fun comedy ghost caper w/ M.J. Fox) '96 

 

Hercules    D: Pietro Francisci  (original featuring Steve Reaves) '58

 

Incredible Mr. Limpet D: Arthur Lubin (Don Knotts as a nebbishy guy turned cartoon fish in search of love) '63

 

Iron Giant, the  D: Brad Bird   animated  (boy meets robot set during the cold war movie) '99

 

Jabberwocky         D:  Terry Gilliam  '77

Jason and the Argonauts  D: Don Chaffey (FX by Ray Harryhausen ) '63

Jurassic Park  D:  Steven Speilberg '93

 

Kingdom of the Spiders   D: John Cardos (William Shatner as sheriff of spider ridden town) '77

King Kong  D: John Guillerman (70s remake of famous Big Monkey film) '76

 

Logans Run  D: Michael Anderson (a future world where "re-birth" is compulsory) '76                        

Lord of the Rings, the  D: Peter Jackson   (Fellowship of the Ring)

Lord of the Rings   D: Peter Jackson   (Two Towers)

Land that Time Forgot, the  D:            (B-movie  dinosaur flick)

Lathe of Heaven, the   D: David Loxton & Fred Barzyk '80                  

 

Man Who Fell to Earth, the  D: Nicolas Roeg (Classic; Sci-Fi Star's David Bowie as spaceman) '76

Minority Report D: S. Speilberg (Based of Philip K. Dick s.f. about pre-crime enforcement) 2002

Miracle Mile  D: Steve DeJarnatt (Nuke-mare flick with Anthony Edwards) '89

 

Planet of the Apes   D:                      (w/ Chuck Heston, from an idea by Rod Serling)

                - Beneath the...                  (the story continues where the other one left off)

                - Escape from...               (story continues - with a trip back in time)

                -Conquest of....               (story continues - and we see how this all started)

                -Battle for....                   (story continues - somewhere in time - final film - whew! 

 

Q                     D: Larry Cohen      (Dragon in NYC) '82

Quatermass Xperiment, the  D: Val Guest  (-the creeping unknown- Brit. SF/Horror) '56

Quest for Fire   D: Jean-Jaques Annaud (Great Cave Man Epic

 

Repo Man    D: Alex Cox  (Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, punk-rock-must) '83

Rollerball         D: Norman Jewison  (James Caan stars in this original version) '75

Road Warrior D: George Miller  (Mel Gibson in post-apocalyptic world where people fight over gas) '81

 

Saturn 3  Stanley Donen  (Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel) '79

Something Wicked This Way Comes  D: Jack Clayton  (classic Ray Bradbarry) '83

Soylent Green    D: Richard Fleischer  (w/ Chuck 'from my cold dead hands' Heston) psst - it's people '73

Spy Kids 3D   D: Robert Rodrigues    (yes I have the glasses - 3D not bad)

Star Wars    D: George Lucas        (the original - if you ever need to see it again) '77

 

Them!   D: Gordon Douglas   (50s drive-in giant ant movie!) '54

Time After Time   D: Nicholas Meyer   (H.G. Wells battles Jack the Ripper in Frisco) '79

2010        D: Peter Hyams   (sequel to the book and movie 2001) '84

20 Million Miles to Earth  D: Nathan Juran  (Fx by Ray Harryhausen) '57

Twilight Zone -the movie-  D: -several- (Big Directors re-do classic episodes) '83

Twilight Zone treasure chest          tv (Original Series, special episodes/rare footage)

12 Moneys   D: Terry Gilliam   (Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, time travel - germ plague thriller) '95

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea      D: Richard Fleischer   (Julies Vern tale by Disney) '54

20 Million Miles to Earth D: Nathan Juran  (Ray Harryhausen FX)

 

Until the End of the World   D: Wim Wenders  (John Hurt invents sight for the blind) '91

 

Vanilla Sky   D:                  (Am-remake of Spanish 'open your eyes') w/Tom Cruise

Village of the Damned   D: Wolf Rilla   (50s, one of the original creepy kid movies) '60

Village of the Giants  D: Bert Gordon   (Campy 60s drive-in with many soon to be big stars) '65

 

War of the Worlds   D: Byron Haskin   (H.G.Welles; Martians invade earth) '53

West World     D: Michael Crichton  (70s Michael Criton, futuristic robotic theme-parks gone haywire) '73

Wonderful World of the Bros. Grimm  D: henry Levin 7 George Pat '62      

Wizard of Oz, the  D: Victor Fleming  musical (original; sync w/PFloyd's Dard Side - IT WORKS!) '39

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory  D: Mel Stuart     (always good)  '71

 

Young Sherlock Holmes   D: Barry Levinson  (fun adventure film with cool FX) '85

 

 


Classics  (includes many genres, decades from 30s -70s)

 

Bonnie & Clyde  D: Arthur Penn (Faye Dunnaway and Warren Beatty as the real life bank robbers) '67

Breakfast at Tiffany's  D: Blake Edwards  (w/Audrey Hepburn; from the Truman Capote novel) '61

Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid  west D: Gorge Roy Hill '69

Butterfield 8  D:Daniel Mann (Elizabeth Taylor as a hooker trying to go straight) '60

 

Catch-22   D: Mike Nicoles (Joseph Heller's defiant book becomes sprawling movie) '70

Cool Hand Luke   D: Stuart Rossenberg (one of the best - Paul Newman, George Kennedy) '67

 

Defiant Ones, the  D: Stanley Kramer (Black Guy/ White Guy prisson break film) '58

Dog Day Afternoon   D: Sidney Lumet (true story of a Brooklyn bank robbery gone awry w/ Al Pachino) very good '75

 

East of Eden       D: Elia Kazan  (James Dean in Steinbeck movie) '54

 

Graduate, the   D: Mike Nichols  (classic classic;  w/ Dustan Hoffman) LTBX '67

 

Invasion of  the Body Snatchers   D: Donald Siegel (original version) '56

It Happened One Night  D: Frank Capra   (w/ Clark Gable & Cladet Coldear) '34

 

Killing, the   D:  Stanley Kubrick      (Early Kubrick film-noir) '56

 

Little Big Man       D: Arthur Penn  (Dustan Hoffman-sole survivor of Little Big Horn) great '70

Lost Weekend  D: Billy Wilder  (On the wagon - Off the wagon flick, very good) '45

Little Rascles,the  Vol 1 , 7 (for now) Hosted by Leonard Maltin

 

Manchurian Candidate D: John Frankenheimer ( Frank Sinatra in Brain-Washing cold war thriller) '62

"Marty"  D: Delbert Mann  (Ernest Borgnine as dumpy guy looking for love) - very good - '55

M*A*S*H*  D: Robert Altman  (the movie-from a book- that started the tv series) '70

Metropolis   D: Fritz Lang      (silent masterpiece) '26

Mister Roberts    D: John Ford & Mervyn LeRoy (H. Fonda, J. Cagney, W. Powell, J. Lemon) '55              

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington  D: Frank Capra  (Jimmy Stuart - Classic Capra Schmaltz) '39

Midnight Cowboy  D: John Schlesinger (John Voit and Dustan Hoffman the only X to win best pic.) '69

Miracle Worker      D:  Arther Penn    (original movie about Helen Keller) '62

Misfits,the  D: John Huston (Marilyn Monroe,Clark Gable,Mongomery Clift) last film 4all '61

Monsieur Verdoux   D:Charles Chaplin   (later Chaplin talkie) '47

 

Nutty Professor, the  D: Jerry Lewis  (Jerry Lewis classic take of on Dr. Jeykell...) '63

 

Out-of-Towners  D: Aurther Hiller  (Jack Lemon goes through hell in nyc for job interview; Neil Simon comedy) '70

Our Gang Comedy Festival         (Little Rascals)

 

Producers, the    D: Mell Brooks  (Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel, very zany) '68

 

Seance on a Wet Afternoon   D: Bryan Forbes  (interesting movie centers around a 'medium') '64

Seconds  D: John Frankenheimer (Rock Hudson; a very strange movie that received a very limited release) '66

Shadows       D: John Cassavettes   (60s indi. from maverick film maker Cassavettes) '60

Shock Corridor  D: Samuel Fuller  (Reporter seeks scoop about a murder by posing as a patient in a mental ward) '63

Street Car Named Desire,A  D: Elia Kazan  (Brando at his best - very very good) '51

Suddenly, Last Summer    D: Joseph L. Mankiewicz    (Elizabeth Taylor, Tennessee Williams classic)

 

3rd Man, the  D: Carol Reed   (Orson Welles, and Joseph Cotton, spy thriller classic) '49

Tom Thumb      D: George Pal   (George Pal FX -50s) '58

Touch of Evil   D: Orson Welles   (maybe the best Welles film ever, restored to his vision) '58       

 

Rebel Without a Cause   D: Nicholas Ray  (James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Minio) '55

Red Balloon, the D: Albert Lamorisse  (A Boy & His Balloon;  charming) '56

 

Valley of the Dolls   D: Mark Robson  (famous 60s flick about rich-California girls on drugs) '67

 

 

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane   D: Robert Aldrich  (Betty Davis and Joan Crawford) very good '62

Wild One, the  D: Laslo Benedek (w/ Marlon Brando; Motorcycle gang takes over small California town) '54

 

 

     Good for Kids and Family  (as always, use your best judgment)

 

Alice in Wonderland   (animated Disney)  D: Hamilton Luske '51

 

Bugsy Malone D: Allan Parker  music (kids as ol' time gangsters Scott Baio &  Jodie Foster) '76

 

Cabin Boy    D: Adam Resnick (Chris Elliot stars in fantasy film homage) '94

Charles Chaplin  @  Keystone Studios  (1914)  Vol 1

                               @   Essanay Studios   (1915)  Vol 1 

                               @    Essanay Studios   (1915) Vol 2

Charles Chaplin;   The Circus & A Day's Pleasure  D: Charles Chaplin  '28/ '19

Christmas Story,A  D: Bob Clark (charming story of a boy's attempts to secure a bee-bee gun for Christmas) '83

 

Emmett Otters Jug Band Christmas   (Jim Henson's classic HBO Christmas special)

 

Fantasia   D: -several- (original Disney music/animation feast) '40

Fabulous Fleischer Folio  (vol III)    (Great early animation from the 20s-30s)

 

Incredible Mr. Limpet D: Arthur Lubin (Don Knotts as a nebbishy guy turned cartoon fish in search of love) '63

Incredible Shrinking Woman, the  D: Joel Schumacher  (Lilly Tomlan & Charles Groden) '81

Iron Giant, the  D: Brad Bird   animated  (boy meets robot set during the cold war movie) '99

 

Nutty Professor, the  D: Jerry Lewis  (Jerry Lewis classic take of on Dr. Jeykell...) '63

 

Oh, God!   D: Carl Reiner (John Denver as grocery store manager, Geo.Burns as God) '77

Out-of-Towners  D: Aurther Hiller  (Jack Lemon goes through hell in nyc for job interview; Neil Simon comedy) '70

 

Prairie Home Companion, A - the last show    t.v.(P.H.C. left the air in 1987, it came back)

 

Red Balloon, the D: Albert Lamorisse  (A Boy & His Balloon;  charming) '56

 

School House Rock   (cartoon ABC music shorts) 4 vols.  math, science, grammer, hist/gov

Spy Kids 3D   D: Robert Rodrigues    (yes I have the glasses - 3D not bad)

Star Wars    D: George Lucas        (the original - if you ever need to see it again) '77

 

Tom Sawyer  D: Don Taylor    musical '73

Tom Thumb      D: George Pal   (George Pal FX -50s) '58

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea      D: Richard Fleischer   (Julies Vern tale by Disney) '54

 

Wallace & Grommet  "the wrong trousers"   D: Nick Park  (really good claymation) '95    

Wiz, the  D: Sidney Lumet   musical( Diana Ross/Dorothy,Michael Jackson/Scarecrow) '78

Wizard of Oz, the  D: Victor Fleming  musical (original; sync w/PFloyd's Dard Side - IT WORKS!) '39

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory  D: Mel Stuart     (always good)  '71

Wonderful World of the Bros. Grimm  D: henry Levin 7 George Pat '62      

 

Young Sherlock Holmes   D: Barry Levinson  (fun adventure film with cool FX) '85

Yours, mine and Ours  D: Melville Shavelson (L. Ball & H. Fonda - singles w/ too many kids meet and marry) '68

 



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