Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Top 10 Films
1. Gladiator(2000)
2. Pearl Harbor(2001)
3. The Fight Club(1999)
4. The Dark Knight(2008)
5. The Pursuit of Happiness(2006)
6. Armageddon(1998)
7. The Prestige(2006)
8. We Own the Night(2007)
9. Forrest Gump(1994)
10. The Departed(2006)
Monday, April 20, 2009
Citizen Kane (1941)
Directed by: Orson Welles
Produced by: Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Dorothy Comingore, Ruth Warrick
Music by: Bernard Herrmann
Genre: Drama
Rating:*
“Rosebud”
The whole movie is about this quote, after a wealthy man dies and pronounces his last word “rosebud” a reporter called Jerry Thompson tries to find out the meaning. The movie is a black and white picture it has a lot of camera angles as well as close ups, has different light settings and lots of music.
The movie starts with Foster Kane a wealthy man owner of a lot of businesses dying and saying his last word rosebud, nobody knows what it means so a reporter Jerry Thompson tries to find out the meaning by interviewing people that were close to him such as his ex wives personal assistants and friends. Foster Kane started building his empire with his printing business and paper publishers; he had trouble because of his money because he did not have time for his beloved ones.
He lived in a huge castle full of statues kind of to try to fill up that huge place; he divorced twice because he was always bussy. As the movies goes on you see multiple flashbacks, story tells and stuff that makes you understand how Kane’s life was. Finally after the reporter interviewed most of his close friends he gives up and concludes that this word will remain unsolved.
When the movie ends you see a bunch of guys burning his stuff and when they threw a sled into the fire you can see the word rosebud printed in a sled he used and loved when he was young.
This gives you an idea that after all the expensive things that money can buy nothing gives you more happiness than simple things such as enjoying time in a small meaningless thing as a sled.
I didn’t really like this movie is kind of slow and old I didn’t like the camera scenes and stuff but I think that’s why it is the critics’ choice for the best movie of all time.
Awards
1998 - AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies - #1
2005 - AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes: "Rosebud" #17
2007 - AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) - #1
Produced by: Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Dorothy Comingore, Ruth Warrick
Music by: Bernard Herrmann
Genre: Drama
Rating:*
“Rosebud”
The whole movie is about this quote, after a wealthy man dies and pronounces his last word “rosebud” a reporter called Jerry Thompson tries to find out the meaning. The movie is a black and white picture it has a lot of camera angles as well as close ups, has different light settings and lots of music.
The movie starts with Foster Kane a wealthy man owner of a lot of businesses dying and saying his last word rosebud, nobody knows what it means so a reporter Jerry Thompson tries to find out the meaning by interviewing people that were close to him such as his ex wives personal assistants and friends. Foster Kane started building his empire with his printing business and paper publishers; he had trouble because of his money because he did not have time for his beloved ones.
He lived in a huge castle full of statues kind of to try to fill up that huge place; he divorced twice because he was always bussy. As the movies goes on you see multiple flashbacks, story tells and stuff that makes you understand how Kane’s life was. Finally after the reporter interviewed most of his close friends he gives up and concludes that this word will remain unsolved.
When the movie ends you see a bunch of guys burning his stuff and when they threw a sled into the fire you can see the word rosebud printed in a sled he used and loved when he was young.
This gives you an idea that after all the expensive things that money can buy nothing gives you more happiness than simple things such as enjoying time in a small meaningless thing as a sled.
I didn’t really like this movie is kind of slow and old I didn’t like the camera scenes and stuff but I think that’s why it is the critics’ choice for the best movie of all time.
Awards
1998 - AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies - #1
2005 - AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes: "Rosebud" #17
2007 - AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) - #1
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Gone with the wind (1939)
Directed by: Victor Fleming
Produced by: David O. Selznick
Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie Mc Daniel
Music by: Max Steiner
Genre: Drama
Rating: ***
“With god is my witness I’ll never be hungry again”
It is probably one of the greatest quotes in the film. In my opinion this is a long movie that tells us about the lives they had back in the civil war in the old confederate states. It has a long Interlude and intermission and it is a very slow movie; this movie is mainly about Scarlett a girl from Tara Georgia who has everything and suddenly starts losing it. She has affairs and personal problems with a lot of people because of her personality.
The Movie is about Scarlett having a crush on Ashley one of her friend’s fiancé, one day at the barbecue at Ashley’s house Rhett buttler is staring at Scarlett, later he gets in to a verbal fight with the men at the barbecue because of war issues. Then while he was at the library he heard a conversation between Scarlett and Ashley where Scarlett tells her feelings about him, when Ashley leaves Rhett tells her that her secret is safe with him that is when all the love/hate routine begins to happen between Rev and Scarlett. Later that evening the men decide to go to war and while Scarlett is staring at Ashley is kissing Melanie goodbye Melanie’s young brother ask her to marry him and she says yes, because she felt alone without any man.
During the war her husband dies and her mother sends her with Melanie and her family to Atlanta. She agrees to go but mammy, her housemaid, knows that she is going there only to wait for Ashley to come from war. At a party in Atlanta that Melanie and Scarlett attend she finds buttler again and they dance in front of everybody.
Months later during the war Scarlett asks for Rhett’s help to take her and Melanie out of town to Tara because Melanie just had her baby, in the journey out they try to take their horse but Rhett hits them all, on the way Rhett leaves Scarlett Melanie and Prissy the little maid to join the confederate army they share a kiss in the sunset. When she gets back home she finds that Tara is ruined, that her mom died and that her dad is going insane. With no money or food she quotes “With god is my witness I’ll never be hungry again”
She then realizes she has to do something to get over it so she starts working with her servants and family in the cotton fields. One day a union soldier is burglarizing her house, she kills him and she found some gold coin to sustain her family for a while.
One day Ashley got back from war and while Melanie was running to his arms, mammy stopped Scarlett to do the same thing. Ashley starts working in Tara and Scarlett proposes him to runaway with her, they kissed but he tells her that he can’t leave Melanie
While a business man is visiting Tara whiling to buy it Scarlett’s dad chases him on his horse but he falls and dies. Scarlett can’t pay the raised taxes in Tara so she came out with a plan and marries Frank Kennedy who owns a very successful store then she takes control of his business and makes her own business, a mill. One day Ashley frank and some friends went to make a raid, Ashley was wounded and Frank was killed.
After frank’s funeral Rhett visits Scarlett and asks her to marry him despite their trouble in the past she first doubts but she finally agrees. They move into Atlanta to this huge mansion and they had a daughter Bonnie Blue.
The movie ends with rev leaving Scarlett after their daughter’s death and Scarlett starting again.
Produced by: David O. Selznick
Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie Mc Daniel
Music by: Max Steiner
Genre: Drama
Rating: ***
“With god is my witness I’ll never be hungry again”
It is probably one of the greatest quotes in the film. In my opinion this is a long movie that tells us about the lives they had back in the civil war in the old confederate states. It has a long Interlude and intermission and it is a very slow movie; this movie is mainly about Scarlett a girl from Tara Georgia who has everything and suddenly starts losing it. She has affairs and personal problems with a lot of people because of her personality.
The Movie is about Scarlett having a crush on Ashley one of her friend’s fiancé, one day at the barbecue at Ashley’s house Rhett buttler is staring at Scarlett, later he gets in to a verbal fight with the men at the barbecue because of war issues. Then while he was at the library he heard a conversation between Scarlett and Ashley where Scarlett tells her feelings about him, when Ashley leaves Rhett tells her that her secret is safe with him that is when all the love/hate routine begins to happen between Rev and Scarlett. Later that evening the men decide to go to war and while Scarlett is staring at Ashley is kissing Melanie goodbye Melanie’s young brother ask her to marry him and she says yes, because she felt alone without any man.
During the war her husband dies and her mother sends her with Melanie and her family to Atlanta. She agrees to go but mammy, her housemaid, knows that she is going there only to wait for Ashley to come from war. At a party in Atlanta that Melanie and Scarlett attend she finds buttler again and they dance in front of everybody.
Months later during the war Scarlett asks for Rhett’s help to take her and Melanie out of town to Tara because Melanie just had her baby, in the journey out they try to take their horse but Rhett hits them all, on the way Rhett leaves Scarlett Melanie and Prissy the little maid to join the confederate army they share a kiss in the sunset. When she gets back home she finds that Tara is ruined, that her mom died and that her dad is going insane. With no money or food she quotes “With god is my witness I’ll never be hungry again”
She then realizes she has to do something to get over it so she starts working with her servants and family in the cotton fields. One day a union soldier is burglarizing her house, she kills him and she found some gold coin to sustain her family for a while.
One day Ashley got back from war and while Melanie was running to his arms, mammy stopped Scarlett to do the same thing. Ashley starts working in Tara and Scarlett proposes him to runaway with her, they kissed but he tells her that he can’t leave Melanie
While a business man is visiting Tara whiling to buy it Scarlett’s dad chases him on his horse but he falls and dies. Scarlett can’t pay the raised taxes in Tara so she came out with a plan and marries Frank Kennedy who owns a very successful store then she takes control of his business and makes her own business, a mill. One day Ashley frank and some friends went to make a raid, Ashley was wounded and Frank was killed.
After frank’s funeral Rhett visits Scarlett and asks her to marry him despite their trouble in the past she first doubts but she finally agrees. They move into Atlanta to this huge mansion and they had a daughter Bonnie Blue.
The movie ends with rev leaving Scarlett after their daughter’s death and Scarlett starting again.
Rating Scales
1 Star (*): really bad movie
2 Stars (**):bad movie
3 Stars (***): ok movie
4 Stars (****):good movie
5 Stars (*****):great movie
2 Stars (**):bad movie
3 Stars (***): ok movie
4 Stars (****):good movie
5 Stars (*****):great movie
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