Pajiba Sweetened by Mock, Lightened by Droll. Heres an alphabetical listing of all our Film A Little Chaos Review Alan Rickman And Kate Winslet Reunite For A. PRIMO, the largest independent national magazine for and about Italian Americans, provides quality journalism on Italian American history, heritage, and achievements. Romantic Movies 2009 Brave Story ' title='Romantic Movies 2009 Brave Story ' />The 1. Best American Movies. Its Top Ten time again, and like everyone else I have a list, in my case a list of the 1. American movies ever. Here it is, with brief descriptions and no justifications. Only the first two films are in order. The others are all tied for third. The Best Years of Our Lives 1. William Wyler. Regarded as producer Sam Goldwyns masterpiece, this deeply felt study of soldiers coming home after World War II boasts career best performances by Fredric March who won an Oscar, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright, Dana Andrews, Virginia Mayo, Cathy ODonnell, Hoagy Carmichael and the amazing Harold Russell two Oscars, a double amputee and first and last time nonactor who played a double amputee. The movie is filled with thrilling and affecting scenes the moment when Milly Stephenson Loy realizes that the person at the door is her husband, Al March, who has come back a day before he was supposed to the moment when Homer Parrish Russell waves goodbye to his two new friends and his parents see the hooks that are now his hands for the first time the moment when Fred Derry Andrews hoists himself into a military plane like the one he flew in so many times and hears in his mind the engines of the other dead planes surrounding him in rows. The three intertwined stories are resolved with a measure of optimism, but with more than a residue of disappointment and bitterness. Al Stephenson is still a drunk. Fred Derry is still poor and without skills. Homer Parrish still has no hands. Sunset Blvd. 1. 95. Billy Wilder. Notable for Gloria Swansons triumphant comeback performance in a movie that denies her character a comeback, the film also has William Holden doing his morally flawed person in an attractive package act to perfection, not to mention the ancillary pleasures of a young, boyish and humorous world you believe it Jack Webb, a self parodying turn as a directorhusband turned factotum by Erich von Stroheim, a silent appearance by silent star Buster Keaton and a cameo performance by Cecil B. Could Oprah Winfrey Run For President Will Grace Reboot Debuts But Did It Deliver The Goods Sex And The City 3 Is Officially Not Happening De. Mille playing himself. The voice over narration of the story by a dead man floating in a swimming pool seems not bizarre but exactly right Joe Gillis Holden was morally dead before he hit the water. When the movie begins, Gillis comes across as a nice guy, somewhat down on his luck, and Norma Desmond Swanson comes across as an egomaniacal monster who pressures him into becoming her boy toy. But even before the final incredible scene of Desmond descending a staircase while the camera, empty of film, rolls, she has earned the sympathy we extend to the terribly needy, and he has revealed himself to be the true monster, a betrayer of Desmond, of the young girl Nancy Olson who sees more in him than there is, and of himself. Double Indemnity 1. Billy Wilder. This time Wilders anti hero played by Fred Mac. Murray, who could do tall but weak with the best of them see The Apartment, The Caine Mutiny and Pushover is not dead but dying as he narrates the story into a tape recorder destined for the ears of his boss, Barton Keyes the incomparably great Edward G. Robinson. You know whats going to happen the moment Barbara Stanwyck you see just her legs slinks down the staircase of her house, and Walter Neff Mac. Murray probably knows it, too but he, like us, is compelled to see the plot through the inevitable downward spiral to its ending. Phyllis Stanwyck predicts it all when she says, Its straight down the line for both of us. Keyes, the indefatigable unlocker of puzzles, is even more precise Theyre stuck with each other. Theyve got to ride all the way to the end of the line. And its a one way trip and the last stop is the cemetery. Just before that stop, the true love story of the film announces itself when, in response to Keyess acknowledgment of the depth of his feelings for his protege, Neff says I love you, too, and dies. Shane 1. 95. 3, directed by George Stevens. In this beautifully photographed western, a laconic, stoic stranger rides in out of nowhere and rides out again perhaps mortally wounded in the same direction, as Joey Starrett Brandon De Wilde implores him to come back, Shane. In between, Shane Alan Ladd, in the performance of his life, a man at once steely and sentimental, hard edged and effeminate, becomes the love object of almost everyone in the movie. Joey loves Shane his father a tree like Van Heflin loves Shane his mother Jean Arthur, luminous in a role she disliked loves Shane the cowhand played by Ben Johnson learns to love Shane and even Wilson, the gunman portrayed so memorably by Jack Palance in a breakthrough role, loves Shane in the way one can love ones mirror image. The movie is at once clichd the settlers vs. Directed by Hilda Hidalgo. With Pablo Derqui, Eliza Triana, Jordi Dauder, Joaqun Climent. Based on Gabriel Garca Mrquezs novel, this is the unsettling story of. Read the latest news and updates on your favorite movies, tv shows stars. Moviefone is your source for entertainment, movie, DVD, online streaming TV news. Not included in Moana, though, is a romantic interest, despite the fact that so many animated movies and every single Disney Princess film preceding Moana. Far from the Madding Crowd. Not far from perfect adaptation. The Age of Adaline. Certified Fresh. Movies and TV shows are Certified Fresh with a steady Tomatometer of 75 or higher after a set amount of reviews 80 for. Like the pastoral, the western caresses a landscape it knows to be already lost and alive only in the imagination and in Shane the caress is lingering, loving and sad. Red River 1. 94. Howard Hawks, is not elegiac but looks forward to the days when western beef will supply eastern tables. But before that can happen, there has to be the first cattle drive, and its adventures and obstacles provide the plot for this film. The real center, however, is once again the love and hate relationships among the key characters. There are two triangles and one dyad. The first triangle is made up of cattleman Tom Dunson John Wayne in the role he should have won an Oscar for, Dunsons adopted son Matthew Garth Montgomery Clift, matching Waynes screen power despite the disparity in their physical presences and family retainer Groot Nadine Walter Brennan playing the irascible, principled old coot to perfection. Garth and Groot love Dunson Dunson loves Garth and Groot Groot loves Dunson and Garth. None gives his love unconditionally. Groot tells Dunson at a crucial moment, You was wrong, Mr. Dunson. Garth leads a mutiny against his father. Dunson vows vengeance against his son and promises to kill him. He is prevented from doing so although it is unlikely that he would have ever really gone that far by Tess Millay Joanne Dru, who makes up a third of another triangle with Dunson and Garth. Garth, in turn, forms a dyad with Cherry Valance John Ireland, in his best role except for his bravura turn in All the Kings Men, a fast gun who competes with him but is devoted to him, and risks his life to protect him. Brooding over all these characters is the cattle drive itself, a force both of nature and history. And a generator of excitement and purpose all on its own. Raging Bull 1. 98. Martin Scorsese. Tom Dunson, in Red River, almost brings everything he has fought for and loved down on his head, but is redeemed at the last moment. Nothing redeems Jake La Motta Robert De Niro, in an Oscar winning performance, who can find the worm in any apparently happy situation and who systematically drives away everyone who cares for him with the same relentless brutality he displays in the ring. Sci Fi Movies Dvd Looney Tunes: Reality Check. Anything can set him off, even a steak that may or may not be overdone and if there is nothing in view, he can make the provocation up, as he does when he accuses his brother Joe Pesci of betraying him with his wife Cathy Moriarty. For La Motta, rage is the default condition, the ordinary, everyday emotion anything else is an anomaly he cannot abide and he soon removes it. Most boxing movies trace the classic pattern of rise, fall and redemption Somebody Up There Likes Me, The Cinderella Man, or tell a moral tale about the corruption of the sport The Harder They Fall, The Set Up, or detail the corruption of the protagonist Champion, Body and Soul. Raging Bull offers no triumph, and no moral. It just exhibits the self destructiveness of its central figure again and again even the depiction of La Mottas later career as a nightclub entertainer extends rather than ends the pain.