Not to be missed : fifty-four favorites from a lifetime of film

Not to be missed : fifty-four favorites from a lifetime of film / Kenneth Turan.

"As a child in 1950s Brooklyn, Kenneth Turan often turned to television programs like "Million Dollar Movie" on WOR-TV. Featuring a much-loved theme song from Gone with the Wind, "Million Dollar Movie" would run one feature film twice a day, every day, all week. It was there...

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Main Author: Turan, Kenneth (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : PublicAffairs, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Motion pictures.
Film criticism.
Guides & Reviews.
History & Criticism.
Film criticism
Motion pictures
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • In the beginning. Fantômas (1913-1914) ; Silent comedy double feature : Sherlock Jr. (1924) and Pass the gravy (1928)
  • The Thirties. I am a fugitive from a chain gang (1932) ; Bombshell (1933) ; The dybbuk (1937) ; Leo McCarey double feature : Make way for tomorrow (1937) and Love affair (1939)
  • The Forties. Pride and prejudice (1940) ; Ernest Lubitsch double feature : The shop around the corner (1940) and To be or not to be (1942) ; The Lady Eve (1941) ; Strawberry blonde (1941) ; Casablanca (1942) ; Random harvest (1942) ; Children of paradise (1945) ; Great expectations (1946) ; Bicycle thieves (1948) ; The third man (1949)
  • The fifties. All about Eve (1950) ; The asphalt jungle (1950) ; Sunset Boulevard (1950) ; Casque d'or (1952) ; The importance of being Earnest (1952) ; Singin' in the rain (1952) ; The earrings of Madame De ... (1953) ; Seven samurai (1954) ; Kiss me deadly (1955) ; Seven men from now (1956) ; Sweet smell of success (1957) ; Vertigo (1958)
  • The Sixties. The man who shot Liberty Valence (1962) ; The Gospel according to St. Matthew (1964) ; Point blank ; Le samouraï (1967) ; Kes (1969)
  • The Seventies. The Godfather (1972) ; Chinatown (1974)
  • The eighties. The day after Trinity (1981) ; First contact (1983) ; Distant voices, still lives (1988)
  • The Nineties. Howards End (1992) ; Leolo (1992) ; Unforgiven (1992)
  • The new century. Spirited away (2001) ; The best of youth (2003) ; The five obstructions (2003) ; Documentary double feature : Stranded (2007) and Senna (2010) ; A prophet (2009) ; Of gods and men (2010) ; Footnote (2011)
  • Orson Welles double feature. Touch of evil (1958) ; and Chimes at midnight (1965)
  • The fifty-fifth film
  • A second fifty-four.

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