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When Hollywood Came to Town (Other Films)
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Films listed in the back of James d'Arc's book "When Hollywood Came to Town: A History of Moviemaking in Utah" (2010, 2019) but NOT mentioned at all in the book (mostly newer films). TV series not included. Sorted chronologically, then alphabetically. See the main list here: https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/when+hollywood+came+to+town/yormovies/ -
When Hollywood Came to Town
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Films mentioned in James d'Arc's book "When Hollywood Came to Town: A History of Moviemaking in Utah" (2010, 2019). Sorted chronologically, then alphabetically. Lost films are not included in the check-off list. These are: - One Hundred Years of Mormonism (1913) - The Deadwood Coach (1924) - Forlorn River (1926) - Arizona Bound (1927) - Lightning (1927) - The Shepherd of the Hills (1928) - Under the Tonto Rim (1928) - The Vanishing Pioneer (1928) - The Night Flyer (1928) - West of the Rockies (1929) - The Mormon Conquest (1939) More recent films listed in the back of the book but not mentioned in the book itself have been moved to a separate list here: https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/when+hollywood+came+to+town+other+films/yormovies/ -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Chick Flicks
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. Chick Flicks can be described as movies where the story has greater appeal to women than men. Romance, melodrama, female bonding, tearjerker, story with a predominantly female point of view. (A precise definition has never been set in stone) -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Sport Movies
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. These Greatest Sport Movies were chosen for their direction, acting, storyline, cinematography, box office success and popularity. These films were NOT chosen for how highly rated they are overall, but how they rate in the subject of "Sport Movies". (Not included sports are: martial arts, gladiators, chess, rodeo, which are included in some other "Sport Movie" lists.) -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Animal Movies
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. These Movies are ranked based on quality of storyline, acting, and lasting popularity. These movies have one or more animals, real or not, that the story is centered around. Dinosaur, and Made-For-TV movies are not included. -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Biography Movies
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. These Greatest Biography Movies were chosen for their biographical accuracy, acting, direction, and realism (ie; costumes, sets, mannerisms). (Note: Some movies may contain the combined bios of 2 people, such as husband/wife, doctor/patient, friends/lovers, or partners, if equally important in the story). -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Gangster Movies
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. These Greatest 'Gangster Movies' were chosen for their storyline, acting, direction, popularity and box office success. These films were NOT chosen for how highly rated they are overall, but how they rate in the subject of "Gangster Movies." -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Animated Movies
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. Criterion: Influence, Impact on Animated Cinema, Cultural Impact, Innovation, Popularity, Animation Quality. This list includes Animated films of all genres and styles, this includes: Standard Animated Films, CGI Animated Films, Stop Motion Animated Films, Rotoscope or Trace Animated Films, Live Action/Animated Films, R and X Rated Animated Films, Anime and other Foreign Animated Films, Made For Video/TV Animated Films. -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Musicals
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. The 'Film Musical' is a feature length movie where the characters sing a number of songs throughout the film relating to the story and expressing their thoughts and feelings. Many are adaptations of 'Stage Musicals', the biggest hits being from 'Broadway' theater. These Greatest Musicals were ranked for their storyline, songs/music, acting, direction, & box-office success. This list does not include 'Animated' musical films. -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest War Movies
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. These are the Greatest War Movies - 20th Century Conflicts, chosen for their quality direction, script, cinematography, acting, storyline, originality, and success. This list DOES NOT INCLUDE wars before 1900. (Civil War, Napoleonic Wars, etc.) -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Action Movies
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. These are the Greatest Action Movies chosen for their impact and influence on the action genre, critical acclaim, and popularity. -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Romance Movies
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. These are the Greatest Romance Movies chosen for their direction, script, acting, cinematography, storyline, originality, and success. These films were NOT chosen for how highly rated they are overall, but how they rate in the subject of "romance". -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Comedy Movies
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. These Greatest Comedy Movies are rated by how much they make you laugh, comedic storyline and situations, witty and/or satirical dialogue, and comedic visuals. -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Movies of the 2000s
Favs/dislikes: 9:0. These Greatest Movies of the '00s chosen for their quality direction, script, cinematography, acting, storyline, originality, and success. -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Movies of the 90s
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. These Greatest Movies of the '90s chosen for their quality, direction, script, cinematography, acting, storyline, originality, and succ -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Movies of the 80s
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. These Greatest Movies of the 1980s chosen for their quality direction, script, cinematography, acting, storyline, originality, and succes -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Movies of the 70s
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. These Greatest Movies of the 1970s chosen for their quality direction, script, cinematography, acting, storyline, originality, and succes -
DigitalDreamDoor 100 Greatest Movies of the 60s
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. These Greatest Movies of the '60s chosen for their quality direction, script, cinematography, acting, storyline, originality, and success. -
Criterion Collection Themes: Yakuza!
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. We have a killer selection of Japanese gangster films—or yakuza pictures—in the Criterion Collection, all from the genre’s heyday in the fifties and sixties. Tales of the criminal underworld marked as much by themes of honor and loyalty as by images of shocking, manic violence, they explore the codes and rituals of a society simmering right underneath “civilized” culture. Directors like Takumi Furukawa, Takashi Nomura, and especially Seijun Suzuki depict this bloody world of heists, double crosses, and rivalries with stylish excess, imitating their subjects’ freewheeling daredevilishness—Nomura’s A Colt Is My Passport and Suzuki’s Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter stand as some of the most visually inventive Japanese films of all time. And as proven by recent films from Takeshi Kitano and Takashi Miike, the genre doesn’t seem to be going out of fashion. -
Criterion Collection Themes - Virtually Reality
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Who needs silly, circumscribed categories like “fiction” or “documentary”? From such classic examples as Robert Flaherty’s original almost-ethnography Nanook of the North and Paul Strand and Leo Hurwitz’s political semidocumentary Native Land—about violations of civil liberties in everyday America—to contemporary hybrids by living artists like Abbas Kiarostami (Close-up) and Pedro Costa (In Vanda’s Room), these works blur the lines with panache. -
Criterion Collection Themes - Tearjerkers
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. There is a genre of classic films that, finely crafted as they are, we remember first and foremost for their ability to wring tears from us. Can one even think of Leo McCarey’s Make Way for Tomorrow or Vittorio De Sica’s Umberto D. without immediately recalling their beyond poignant ultimate scenes? And what would Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru or Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory be without those final waterworks (the characters’ and ours)? From Ozu family sagas to Sirk melodramas, we have a large selection of titles for those looking for a little cinematic catharsis. So come and cry along with Criterion. -
Criterion Collection Themes - Suspense
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. Desperate men drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over creaking bridges and through winding mountain passages. A man who knows too much about a political murder races against time to save a woman from an assassin’s clutches. A fragile woman trapped alone in an apartment over one long weekend slowly succumbs to madness as her demons close in on her. A man pursued for a murder he didn’t commit stumbles upon a shadowy conspiracy. These nerve-racking scenarios are the bases of standout thrillers by some of cinema’s greatest suspense artists: Henri-Georges Clouzot (The Wages of Fear), Brian De Palma (Blow Out), Roman Polanski (Repulsion), and, of course, Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps). And those are just a few of the hair-raisers available in the Criterion Collection, which also includes titles by David Cronenberg, Fritz Lang, David Mamet, Carol Reed, and more. -
Criterion Collection Themes - Stage to Screen
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. At Criterion, cinema is king, but the play is also the thing. Look at the lineup of theater legends from whose work films in the collection were adapted: Bertolt Brecht (The Threepenny Opera), Noël Coward (Brief Encounter), Maxim Gorky (The Lower Depths), Eugene O’Neill (The Emperor Jones), Terence Rattigan (The Browning Version), Arthur Schnitzler (La ronde), George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion), August Strindberg (Miss Julie), Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest), Tennessee Williams (The Fugitive Kind)—and, of course, the Bard himself, whose Henry V, Hamlet, and Richard III became grandiose film spectacles thanks to that towering thespian Laurence Olivier. We also have a cracking selection of films made from lesser known works, including Danton, Andrzej Wajda’s adaptation of Stanisława Przybyszewska’s 1931 play The Danton Affair injected with the fervor of the Solidarity liberation movement, and Nicolas Roeg’s radically exploded version of Terry Johnson’s Insignificance. -
Criterion Collection Themes - Scary Movies
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. A deranged doctor performs ghastly experiments at his secluded country home. A murdered man’s body vanishes from the depths of a filthy swimming pool. A mysterious samurai spirit behind a demonic mask stalks two women isolated in a hut surrounded by tall grasses. The Criterion Collection is filled with terrifying stories to tell in the dark, from silent horror (Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 witches’ brew Häxan) to contemporary gore (Lars von Trier’s controversial gut-wrencher Antichrist). There’s much to fear in the films below, whether it’s a disembodied brain, a murderous blob, or Boris Karloff. -
Criterion Collection Themes - Samurai Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Samurai cinema, which includes both chanbara (action-oriented sword-fight films) and the historical jidai-geki film, focuses on the nationally mythologized samurai warriors of the twelfth to sixteenth century. Like the American western, the samurai film lends itself to tales of loyalty, revenge, romance, fighting prowess, and the decline of a traditional way of life. Akira Kurosawa’s samurai films have arguably been the most influential both in Japan and around the world; certainly the range of his approaches—from Seven Samurai’s epic scope to Yojimbo’s acidic black humor to Ran’s poetic despair—established the genre’s creative possibilities, influencing generations of filmmakers, including George Lucas and Quentin Tarantino. Key works of the genre, in its more traditional form, also include Masaki Kobayashi’s Samurai Rebellion, Masahiro Shinoda’s Samurai Spy, and Hiroshi Inagaki’s Musashi Miyamoto, the first part of his epic “Samurai Trilogy.”
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