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Films I've Seen...'P'

Posted by Patrick Dailey at Jun 18, 2001 5:00PM PDT ( 0 Comments )
Pacific Heights (1990)...C Paper Moon (1973)...A- Papillon (1973)...B+ Parallax View, The (1974)...A- Parenthood (1989)...B Pascali's Island (1988)...B+ Passage to India, A (1984)...A Passion of Joan of Arc, The (1928)...A+ Paths of Glory (1957)...A- Patton (1970)...A+ Pawnbroker, The (1965)...A- Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)...B+ Peggy Sue Got Married (1985)...A- People Will Talk (1951)...B+ Philadelphia (1993)...B Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)...A- Pink Panther, The (1964)...B+ Pink Panther Strikes Again, The (1976)...A- Pinocchio (1940)...A- Place in the Sun, A (1951)...A+ Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)...A- Planet of the Apes (1968)...B Platoon (1986)...A- Play It Again, Sam (1972)...A- Play Misty for Me (1971)...B+ Point Break (1991)...C Poseidon Adventure, The (1972)...C- Postcards From the Edge (1990)...B+ Presidio, The (1988)...B Pride and Prejudice (1940)...A- Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The (1969)...A- Prince of the City (1981)...A- Princess Bride, The (1987)...B+ Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The (1970)...B+ Private Parts (1997)...B+ Prizzi's Honor (1985)...A- Producers, The (1968)...B+ Psycho (1960)...B+ Psycho (1998)...F
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AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills

Posted by Patrick Dailey at Jun 11, 2001 5:00PM PDT ( 0 Comments )
Click the Link Above! My Top 100 Most Thrilling Films Ever Made... Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938) Alien (1979) Aliens (1986) All the President's Men (1976) Anatomy of a Murder (1959) Ashphalt Jungle, The (1950) Batman (1989) Ben-Hur (1926) Big Sleep, The (1946) Birds, The (1963) Black Sunday (1977) Blackboard Jungle, The (1955) Blue Velvet (1986) Body Heat (1981) Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Braveheart (1995) Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957) Bullitt (1968) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Call Northside 777 (1948) Cape Fear (1962) Casablanca (1942) China Syndrome, The (1979) Chinatown (1974) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Deer Hunter, The (1978) Deliverance (1972) Die Hard (1988) Dirty Harry (1971) Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Double Indemnity (1944) Empire Strikes Back, The (1980) Fatal Attraction (1987) Foreign Correspondent (1940) French Connection, The (1971) From Russia with Love (1963) Game, The (1997) Glory (1989) Goldfinger (1964) Halloween (1978) Heat (1995) Hoosiers (1986) Hunt for Red October, The (1990) In the Line of Fire (1993) Intolerance (1916) Jagged Edge (1985) Jaws (1975) J F K (1991) King Kong (1933) Klute (1971) Lady from Shanghai, The (1948) Last of the Mohicans, The (1992) Laura (1944) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Licence to Kill (1989) Maltese Falcon, The (1941) Manhunter (1986) Marathon Man (1976) El Mariachi (1992) Mission : Impossible (1996) Natural Born Killers (1994) North by Northwest (1959) Notorious (1946) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) One False Move (1992) Parallax View, The (1974) Patriot Game (1992) Pickup on South Street (1953) Platoon (1986) Play Misty for Me (1971) Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946) Psycho (1960) Public Enemy, The (1931) Pulp Fiction (1994) Raging Bull (1980) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Rear Window (1954) Return of the Jedi (1983) Right Stuff, The (1983) Rocky (1976) Romancing the Stone (1984) Sea of Love (1989) Se7en (1995) Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Shining, The (1980) Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) Speed (1994) Spy Who Loved Me, The (1977) Star Wars (1977) Strangers on a Train (1951) Talented Mr. Ripley, The (1999) Terminator, The (1984) Third Man, The (1949) T-Men (1947) To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) Under Fire (1983) Untouchables, The (1987) White Heat (1949) Witness for the Prosecution (1957) * - My picks were selected from AFI's list of the 400 nominated films. AFI's Top 10 Most Thrilling Films List: 1. Psycho 2. Jaws 3. The Exorcist 4. North by Northwest 5. The Silence of the Lambs 6. Alien 7. The Birds 8. The French Connection 9. Rosemary's Baby 10. Raiders of the Lost Ark
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AFI's 100 Years...100 Films

Posted by Patrick Dailey at Jun 11, 2001 5:00PM PDT ( 0 Comments )
Click the Link Above! My Top 100 Best American Films Ever Made... Adam's Rib (1949) All About Eve (1950) All the King's Men (1949) All the President's Men (1976) American Graffiti (1973) Annie Hall (1977) Apartment, The (1960) Apocalypse Now (1979) Badlands (1978) Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) Big Sleep, The (1946) Birds, The (1963) Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Bringing Up Baby (1938) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Casablanca (1942) Casino (1995) Chinatown (1974) Citizen Kane (1941) City Lights (1931) Color Purple, The (1985) Coming Home (1978) Conversation, The (1974) Dances With Wolves (1990) Days of Heaven (1978) Deer Hunter, The (1978) Dirty Harry (1971) Do the Right Thing (1989) Dr. Strangelove (1964) Dog Day Afternoon (1975) East of Eden (1955) Elmer Gantry (1960) Fantasia (1940) French Connection, The (1971) From Here to Eternity (1953) Giant (1956) Glory (1989) Godfather Part I, The (1972) Godfather Part II, The (1974) Gold Rush, The (1925) Gone With the Wind (1939) GoodFellas (1990) Graduate, The (1967) Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) Greed (1925) High Noon (1952) His Girl Friday (1940) Hud (1963) In Cold Blood (1967) Intolerance (1916) It Happened One Night (1934) It's A Wonderful Life (1946) Last Picture Show, The (1971) Little Big Man (1970) M+A+S+H (1970) Maltese Falcon, The (1941) McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) Midnight Cowboy (1969) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Modern Times (1936) Nashville (1975) Network (1976) North by Northwest (1959) On the Waterfront (1954) Ordinary People (1980) Patton (1970) Place in the Sun, A (1951) Platoon (1986) Producers, The (1967) Pulp Fiction (1994) The Quiet Man (1952) Raging Bull (1980) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Rear Window (1954) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Red River (1948) Reds (1981) Right Stuff, The (1983) Searchers, The (1956) Some Like It Hot (1959) Star Is Born, A (1954) Sting, The (1973) Strangers on a Train (1951) Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951) Sullivan's Travels (1941) Sunrise (1927) Sunset Boulevard (1950) Taxi Driver (1976) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) 2001 : A Space Odyssey (1968) Unforgiven (1992) White Heat (1949) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Wizard of Oz, The (1939) Woman of the Year (1942) (Note - These films were selected from AFI's 400 nominess for Best American Film 1896-1996. In addition to that, GHS_Falcon only considered films set in and/or involving casts/crews entirely made up of American actors/directors.) AFI's List of the Top 10 American Films: 1. Citizen Kane (1941) 2. Casablanca (1942) 3. The Godfather, Part I (1972) 4. Gone With the Wind (1939) 5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 6. The Wizard of Oz (1939) 7. The Graduate (1967) 8. On the Waterfront (1954) 9. Schindler's List (1993) 10. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
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AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs

Posted by Patrick Dailey at Jun 11, 2001 5:00PM PDT ( 0 Comments )
Click the Link Above! My Top 100 Funniest Films Ever Made... 9 To 5 (1980) A Christmas Story (1983) A Night at the Opera (1935) A Shot in the Dark (1964) Adam's Rib (1949) After Hours (1985) Airplane! (1980) American Graffiti (1973) Annie Hall (1977) Austin Powers : Internationl Man of Mystery (1997) Bananas (1971) Being There (1979) Born Yesterday (1950) Bringing Up Baby (1938) Broadcast News (1987) Broadway Danny Rose (1984) Bull Durham (1988) Bullets Over Broadway (1994) Bulworth (1998) City Lights (1931) Clueless (1995) Dave (1993) Defending Your Life (1991) Dr. Strangelove (1964) Duck Soup (1933) Everything You Always Wanted to Know...(1972) Father of the Bride (1950) Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) Get Shorty (1995) Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Heaven Can Wait (1978) His Girl Friday (1940) Irma La Douce (1963) It Happened One Night (1934) It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) Lost in America (1985) M*A*S*H (1970) Manhattan (1979) Melvin and Howard (1980) Midnight Run (1988) Modern Times (1936) Moonstruck (1987) My Fair Lady (1964) My Favorite Year (1982) Network (1976) Ninotchka (1939) No Time for Sergeants (1958) One, Two, Three (1961) Paper Moon (1973) Parenthood (1989) Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) Peggy Sue Got Married (1985) Play It Again, Sam (1972) Postcards From the Edge (1990) Pride and Prejudice (1940) Private Parts (1997) Prizzi's Honor (1985) Raising Arizona (1987) Romancing the Stone (1984) Shakespeare in Love (1998) Sherlock, Jr. (1924) Silver Streak (1976) Sleeper (1973) Some Like It Hot (1959) Stage Door (1937) Sullivan's Travels (1941) The Apartment (1960) The Big Picture (1989) The Candidate (1972) The Circus (1928) The Fortune Cookie (1966) The Freshman (1990) The Front Page (1931) The General (1927) The Gold Rush (1925) The Graduate (1967) The Great Dictator (1940) The Great McGinty (1940) The King of Comedy (1983) The Lady Eve (1941) The Naked Gun : Files From the Police Squad (1988) The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) The Player (1992) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) The Princess Bride (1987) The Producers (1967) The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) The Quiet Man (1952) The Seven Year Itch (1955) The Sting (1973) The Trouble With Harry (1955) The War of the Roses (1989) To Be or Not To Be (1942) Tootsie (1982) Waiting for Guffman (1996) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Woman of the Year (1942) Young Frankenstein (1974) Zelig (1983) * - My picks were selected from the AFI list of the 500 nominated films. AFI's Top 10 Funniest Films List: 1. Some Like It Hot (1959) 2. Tootsie (1982) 3. Dr. Strangelove (1964) 4. Annie Hall (1977) 5. Duck Soup (1933) 6. Blazing Saddles (1974) 7. M+A+S+H (1970) 8. It Happened One Night (1934) 9. The Graduate (1967) 10. Airplane! (1980)
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AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars

Posted by Patrick Dailey at Jun 11, 2001 5:00PM PDT ( 0 Comments )
My List of the Top 10 Male Stars 1. Sir. Laurence Olivier 2. Charles Chaplin 3. Cary Grant 4. Humphrey Bogart 5. James Mason 6. James Stewart 7. Marlon Brando 8. Sir. Alec Guinness 9. Richard Burton 10. Sydney Greenstreet My List of the Top 10 Female Stars 1. Katharine Hepburn 2. Bette Davis 3. Greta Garbo 4. Elizabeth Taylor 5. Audrey Hepburn 6. Judy Garland 7. Vivien Leigh 8. Sophia Loren 9. Thelma Ritter 10. Jean Simmons * - My picks selected from the AFI list of 500 nominees. AFI's List of the Top 10 Male Stars 1. Humphrey Bogart 2. Cary Grant 3. James Stewart 4. Marlon Brando 5. Fred Astaire 6. Henry Fonda 7. Clark Gable 8. James Cagney 9. Spencer Tracy 10. Charlie Chaplin AFI's List of the Top 10 Female Stars 1. Katharine Hepburn 2. Bette Davis 3. Audrey Hepburn 4. Ingrid Bergman 5. Grate Garbo 6. Marilyn Monroe 7. Elizabeth Taylor 8. Judy Garland 9. Marlene Dietrich 10. Joan Crawford