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Whether it was Marty McFly, Gordon Gekko, the Terminator, Jake La Motta, the working girl (Melanie Griffith), or sharp-shooter Jimmy Chitwood, the 1980’s was a memorable decade of iconic heroes, novel advances in technology, and the cementation of blockbuster culture at the movies. Hollywood has always been a fast-moving town with new sets of winners [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies, People · Tagged American film directors, Back to the Future, Barry Levinson, Blade Runner, Blue Velvet, brazil, Crimes and Misdemeanors, David Lynch, Dead Poets’ Society, Do the Right Thing, film, gandhi, Gordon Gekko, Jake La Motta, James Cameron, Jimmy Chitwood, Martin Scorsese, Marty McFly, Mel Brooks, Melanie Griffith, Monty Python, Oliver Stone, Peter Weir, Platoon, Richard Attenborough, Ridley Scott, Robert Zemeckis, Roger Ebert, Romancing the Stone, Spike Lee, Stephen Spielberg, Steven Spielberg, Terry Gilliam, The Abyss, The color Purple, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Time Bandits, Twin Peaks, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, woody allen
You will notice an anti-war stance with this list. John Wayne is noticeable by his absence! The films have a common mission and that is to tell the truth as the writers and directors see it. Before I receive a deluge of comments on why ‘Saving Private Ryan’ isn’t included, I think that the first [...]
Posted by Anne Iredale on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 2:47 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged All Quiet on the Western Front, American film directors, apocalypse now, Benjamin Willard, born on the fourth of july, das boot, donald sutherland, elliot gould, film, fourth of July, Francis Ford Coppola, full metal jacket, Heart of Darkness, John Gielgud, john wayne, Joseph Conrad, Kirk Douglas, Lawrence Olivier, Lewis Milestone, Liam Neeson, Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, MASH, Mickey Mouse Club, Nick Nolte, Oh, Oliver Stone, Oskar Schindler, Paths of Glory, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Attenborough, robert altman, Ron Kovic, saving private ryan, Schindler's List, Sean Penn, stanley kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Terence Malick, the Oscar, Thin Red Line, Tom Cruise, top 10 lists, u boat, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vietnam War films, War, war movies, What a Lovely War, wolfgang petersen, world war i, world war ii
