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The songs were written and performed by the actors themselves, and Carradine’s “I’m Easy” won an Oscar and a Golden Globe. The movie was nominated for a record 11 Globe awards, including acting nods to Chaplin, Gibson, Tomlin, Ronee Blakley, and Barbara Harris. The modern era of computer animation arguably begins with this original classic from 1995.

Initially appalled, their ensuing debates about privacy and morality create an unexpected connection between them, despite their manga quiz differences, in this compelling exploration of human relationships. Steven Spielberg’s classic Jaws birthed a franchise consisting of four movies to date, but not all of them matched the quality of the first movie. Steven Spielberg’s legendary tale of one man’s desperate battle with a killer Great White shark on his small seaside community.

And finally Marcello gives up and sells out and at dawn sees a pale young girl who wants to remind him of the novel he meant to write someday, but he is hung over and cannot hear her shouting across the waves, and so the message is lost. Is it sacrilege to declare that the best-looking film set in Paris was shot by a couple of Italians? Given a murkier, darker ending than Alberto Moravia’s source novel, it’s an electrifying thriller full of shadowy figures, sex and betrayal. But it’s as a highly charged political screed where its real power lies. A weak, cynical man with repressed desires, Clerici is powerless to resist the violent orthodoxy of fascism. The poisonous allure of authoritarianism has never been so chilling – or stylishly – rendered as this.

Jayne Mansfield turned down Remick’s part, and Gregory Peck was considered for the lead. The role of the judge was offered to Burl Ives and Spencer Tracy but in the end was played by Joseph N. Welch, a real-life lawyer who represented the U.S. He never memorized his lines and instead read them off a teleprompter, and it was his only movie role. Written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, this 2011 Iranian drama finds a married couple in the midst of a crisis.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu

Hundreds of years later, the two witches’ spirits escape, and Jennifer takes it upon herself to personally ensure the anguish of the latest man in the Wooley family line, Wallace (also March), who is running for governor of Massachusetts and about to be married. She assumes human form as an effervescent, banister-sliding seductress and sets out to ruin his life and seduce him away from his intended bride. Her plan derails when she accidentally consumes the love potion she’d intended for him and finds herself hopelessly besotted with her sworn enemy. Veronica Lake’s charms are already irresistible without any need for performance-enhancing magic, and the romance is sweet, despite the fact that she and Fredric March reportedly loathed one another in real life. While John Hughes’ Vacation movies steal the spotlight as the great family vacation adventures, The Great Outdoors should also not be overlooked.

Based on a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, the movie follows Snow White as she flees from an evil queen and seeks shelter with a group of highly personable dwarfs. At one point during production, Disney mortgaged his own house to secure more financing. Needless to say, the effort paid off handsomely, especially in the long run. This taut dramatic thriller depicts the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden in the wake of 9/11, which eventually led to the terrorist’s assassination. At the heart of the investigation is a CIA operative named Maya, played to perfection by Jessica Chastain.

After catching word of buried gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains, Dobbs, his friend, and a prospector take off in search of the fortune. By overcoming a string of obstacles, the men finally get their hands on the gold, but they soon start to turn on one another. One of the most acclaimed documentaries of all time, 1994’s Hoop Dreams follows two high school basketball players from inner-city Chicago as they come up against various challenges in pursuit of their goals. Instead, it’s an utterly engaging snapshot of American life in its triumphs and failures alike. From influential filmmaker Akira Kurosawa comes this 1985 epic, which sets Shakespeare’s King Lear in Medieval Japan.

We took 10 hours and really looked at this film, which is routinely named the best film of all time, almost by default, in list after list. It tells of all the seasons of a man’s life, shows his weaknesses and hurts, surrounds him with witnesses who remember him but do not know how to explain him. Vanishingly few movies get journalism right, and even fewer manage to convey the obsessiveness, the anxious frustration and the exhilaration of chasing a big story. Alan J Pakula’s movie about two reporters chasing the biggest story in American political history nails every beat. The achievement is especially remarkable considering that Nixon had resigned from office not even two years prior. Even with its unspoilable ending, Pakula and screenwriter William Goldman still managed to build an uncommonly nervy thriller that never digresses from the central narrative.

The miracle of the film is that it shows us that the seeds of the man are indeed in the child. In a sense, the destinies of all of these people can be guessed in their eyes, the first time we see them. Some do better than we expect, some worse, one seems completely bewildered.

A high school drama with a time traveling, tangential universe threading, sinister rabbit featuring twist, Richard Kelly’s deliberately labyrinthine opus was always destined for cult classic status. A certifiable flop upon its theatrical release, Kelly’s film was one of the early beneficiaries of physical media’s move to DVD, with the movie gaining a fandom in film obsessives who could pause, play, and skip back and forth through it at will. That the film, with all its heavy themes and brooding atmosphere, manages to eventually land on a note of overwhelming optimism is a testament to Kelly’s mercurial moviemaking. A mad world (mad world) Donnie Darko’s may be, but it’s also one that continues to beguile and fascinate as new fans find themselves obsessed with uncovering its mysteries.

Directed by Errol Morris

Even in its problematic moments, it highlights how hard it is to be a high schooler who just wants to fit in and find love–or in some cases, have sex to impress your geeky friends. Sixteen Candles is a product of its time and exists as a great time capsule for viewers to either relive their 1980s high school years in all their cringey glory or learn what life and school might have been like for those high schoolers. Despite Uncle Buck being Hughes’ most successful film as a writer-director, it can be considered underrated as it isn’t one of his teen comedies and is occasionally overshadowed by other collaborations Hughes had with Candy and Culkin.

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Ebert recognized that many viewers had probably never seen or heard of the film or director Yasujirô Ozu. Floating Weeds is visually stunning, with highly contrasting colors painting a beautiful picture of what is, essentially, a tender tale of reconciliation and moving on. A pure exercise in suspense, Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window stars James Stewart as photographer L.B.