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Tag: AFI Top 100

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: All the President’s Men

    All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, couldn’t put President Nixon back together again.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: Modern Times

    Man creates machine. Man becomes machine. Machine takes over the world. Charlie Chaplin also made a really good movie about trying to make it in the world.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: The Wild Bunch

    Saturday Morning Cinema: The Wild Bunch

    The “Wild West” of American history had to expire at some point. Territorial expansion and growth of government authority, coupled with advancing technology, rang the death knell for an era of lawlessness and frontierism. The Wild Bunch focuses on a point during that time where the United States was still establishing its southern and western…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – The Apartment

    Saturday Morning Cinema – The Apartment

    Movies are interesting because of the extraordinary stories they tell. Even documentaries often focus on the fantastic exceptions to life’s typical cadence. Viewers can observe and rest at night knowing the content is imaginative creation or, thankfully, not their real-life situation. Since starting through AFI’s Top 100, I have unexpectedly been exposed to perspectives that…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – Spartacus

    Saturday Morning Cinema – Spartacus

    Spartacus sits at number 81 on AFI’s Top 100 American Movies of All Time. Directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier in the top billings, Spartacus tells the story of a slave group fighting for freedom and the Roman zealot who seeks to establish order by squashing the rebellion’s leader, Spartacus.…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: Sunrise

    Is it ever possible to be satisfied with what one has, or is the pursuit of the greener grass an innate human characteristic? Is there actually greener grass on the other side? These questions are central in Sunrise.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: Titanic

    Here’s the thing about a movie based upon a historical event – you know how it is going to end. No matter how the characters’ stories play out on screen, if the film does not intend to be revisionist, events will unfold as they are documented. Knowing that, there is something to be said for…