Category: Classics & Hitchcock
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The Big Heat (1953)
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Read more: The Big Heat (1953)When Lee Marvin asks if you want two lumps with your coffee, he’s not talking about sugar.
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Dial M for Murder (1954)
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Read more: Dial M for Murder (1954)‘Master of suspense’ twice… Nice! And… no. I’ll tell you what this movie is: boring to the extreme. Jesus Christ! The whole movie, from beginning to end, can be summed up like this: people walking and talking in a house.
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North By Northwest (1959)
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Read more: North By Northwest (1959)The idealized cotton candy world of the 50s, breaks free from that in the 60s, followed by the bleak reality check of the 70s, and then once again rise up in a glorious haze of yuppies, coke, and Miami Vice… of the 80s!
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Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
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Read more: Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)Lawrence Of Arabia is David Lean’s 1962 epic that won 7 Oscars, but of course, not the one that counted for the always overlooked Peter O’Toole.
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Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
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Read more: Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)For yes, it is madness — asking that we endure long silences, wordless glares across barren landscapes, and a story that in lesser hands would whip by in 85 minutes, and is instead stretched out to a beautiful, impossibly breathless 165.
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Strait Jacket (1964)
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Read more: Strait Jacket (1964)I’ve been selecting so many classic films lately, that I thought it fitting to make a change and endorse one of the greatest camp classics of modern times–William Castle’s Strait-Jacket.
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Bob Le Flambeur (1956)
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Read more: Bob Le Flambeur (1956)Bob knows everybody in the slums of Montmartre, and everybody knows Bob (Roger Duchesne). With his five o’clock shadow and his rumpled trenchcoat, Bob Montagne is a gambler and hustler, going from hosting one backroom game of craps to the next blind pig.
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The Killing (1956)
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Read more: The Killing (1956)After the ambitious, philosophical war movie Fear and Desire and the solid film noir Killer’s Kiss, Stanley Kubrick achieved his first true masterpiece with The Killing
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Barry Lyndon: 50th Anniversary Edition
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Read more: Barry Lyndon: 50th Anniversary Edition“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport.”
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The Flight Of The Phoenix (1965)
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Read more: The Flight Of The Phoenix (1965)The Flight of the Phoenix is one of my favorite films. I have watched it at least a dozen times. The clash of personalities in the beginning is just a hint of the bigotry and clash of wills for survival that will ultimately surface after the disastrous crash in the middle of the Sahara.