Movie Year Director Actor Actor Ranking The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese Daniel Day-Lewis Michelle Pfeiffer 2 All This, and Heaven Too 1940 Anatole Litvak Bette Davis Charles Boyer 18 Holiday Affair 1949 Don Hartman Janet Leigh Robert Mitchum 32 The Best Years of Our Lives 1945 William Wyler Dana Andrews Teresa Wright 46… Read More Better than AFI’s 100 Passions: With the Wrong Person (Romantically) Cliché
Okay, this is the hyperspeed version of a movie diary. Two sentences! Each of you movies gets two sentences! The Chosen, 1981, dir. Jeremy Kagan / Adored this movie based on the Chaim Potok novel I’ve never read and now realize I must read, given how closely this adheres to Brideshead Revisited and especially A… Read More Movie Diary 2023 (3/17-4/5): That Time I Got Really Into a Different Project and Realized That I’d Deserted a Perfectly Good Bit and Needed to Get Back to It
You can find the introduction and index for this series here. Film Director Year Type Torch Song Trilogy Paul Bogart 1988 Narrative feature The Abyss James Cameron 1989 Narrative feature When Harry Met Sally… Rob Reiner 1989 Narrative feature JFK Oliver Stone 1991 Narrative feature Color Adjustment Marlon Riggs 1992 Documentary Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with… Read More 100 American Movies to Save: Mania (1988-1995)
For each movie in the top 100, I’ve written a question to answer. (It would get very, very boring for me to have to write some variation on “boy howdy, you’ll never believe how good this movie is” one hundred more times.) There’s no exact sentence or word count I’m holding myself to here, but… Read More Top 250 American Movies: 81-90
The following is part of an overview of the top 100 American narrative fiction feature films, from my perspective. For an introduction to the project and an index of other entries in the series, click here. For a list of more than 800 films which I considered for the top 450 and my eligibility qualifications, click here.… Read More Better than AFI’s Top 100: 95-91
Dir. Martin Scorsese. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder The Age of Innocence is the mirror universe of Gangs of New York, films released and set less than ten years apart, with the same director and the same leading man. Admittedly, the differences begin to proliferate from there; Day-Lewis’ Newland Archer is never quite as… Read More The Age of Innocence (1993)
