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- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsGary CooperGrace KellyThomas MitchellA town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at "high noon" when the gang leader, an outlaw he "sent up" years ago, arrives on the noon train.Because that boom out [a huge camera pullback, isolating Cooper from the rest of the community] made me understand a little about effective imagery on the screen. Why was that so effective when he was so small in the frame? I went back and studied that one.
- DirectorElia KazanStarsKarl MaldenCarroll BakerEli WallachAn immature, naive teenage bride holds her anxious husband at bay while flirting with an amorous Sicilian farmer.
- DirectorEmanuele CrialeseStarsCharlotte GainsbourgVincenzo AmatoVincent SchiavelliA Sicilian peasant begins the journey to the promised land and meets a beautiful Englishwoman. But neither is prepared for the harsh realities of Ellis Island. Can they make it through the golden door to the America of their dreams?You know, in Sicily you don’t trust anyone. It’s not very evolved, but the reality is that on a certain level you grow up full of mistrust. And I’m sorry, it was pounded into me. It really was. My parents were good people, hardworking people, weren’t in organized crime. But there was that attitude toward the world.
- DirectorElia KazanStarsJames DeanRaymond MasseyJulie HarrisTwo brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor as an old secret about their long-absent mother comes to light.The struggle of the father and the son. The good brother and the bad one. And the good brother schmuck.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyAnthony MannStarsRobert TaylorDeborah KerrLeo GennAfter fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.But as a kid I was fascinated by Ancient Rome because of the church.
You had to get away from the pressure, and there was no place to go except the church.
they were Italians and Italian Americans who were dealing with the older Italian community. So there was a disconnect with the younger people who were growing up in the mid fifties to the late fifties. - DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneJeffrey HunterVera MilesAn American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.The priests was disappointed with John Wayne's character but we understood, you know, the darkness and the towering rage.
- DirectorJean CocteauRené ClémentStarsJean MaraisJosette DayMila ParélyA beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.It's something
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsPatricia WaltersNora SwinburneEsmond KnightThe growing pains of three young women contrast with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily lives unfold.But I’ve never forgotten The River [Jean Renoir’s coming-of-age tale, set in India, about three girls falling in love with a former soldier] on that big screen. I was eight years old, nine years old. It was an astounding movie to me, and it still is. In fact, I showed it to Wes Anderson about four or five years ago. And I just spoke to Wes two days ago, and he said, That’s when it began, his film The Darjeeling Limited.
Yeah. He said, while he was watching it, he said to himself, I think there might be something here. And then it opened him up to Satyajit Ray films, and the Merchant-Ivory films they made in India. - DirectorAbraham PolonskyStarsJohn GarfieldThomas GomezBeatrice PearsonAn unethical lawyer who wants to help his older brother becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket.Why does one remember a scene? Like the scene in Force of Evil where Thomas Gomez takes his friend who is ratting him out to a restaurant late at night to have coffee.
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsJames StewartShelley WintersDan DuryeaA cowboy's obsession with a stolen rifle leads to a bullet-ridden odyssey through the American West.But when my father took me to see it, I had trouble with it, because it was more psychologically mean-spirited. It was very disturbing, almost an ugly picture of the West.
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsRobert MitchumBarbara Bel GeddesRobert PrestonUnemployed cowhand Jim Garry is hired by his dishonest friend Tate Riling as muscle in a dispute between homesteaders and cattleman John Lufton.The way they were dressed, it had an authenticity to it, and there’s an extraordinary scene in a bar where Robert Mitchum fights Robert Preston. They’re wearing these heavy coats and the fight is not the traditional cowboy fight that I was used to seeing—the darkness, the low angle, these men sort of tumbling on each other, it was humiliating for the two of them. But it had a truth to it, and it was great how this noir aspect to the movie was really effective.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsIngrid BergmanAlexander KnoxEttore GianniniA wealthy woman becomes obsessed with humanitarianism when her young son dies after committing suicide.There are some great Catholic artists. For example, Roberto Rossellini and his film Europa ’51. That for me was something that had hope. It has to do with the teachings of the New Testament. I really bought into it, because of what I saw around me. I thought this is the right idea: feeling for the other person
- DirectorKing VidorOtto BrowerWilliam DieterleStarsJennifer JonesJoseph CottenGregory PeckBeautiful, biracial Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between two brothers, one good and the other bad.There was no doubt when I was very young and I saw Duel in the Sun [the epic, heavily sexualized western of 1946], there were some edited sequences, spectacle sequences, not the melodramatic stuff. When they gather all over the ranch. It was the best scene ever.
- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsPreston FosterBarbara BrittonJohn IrelandBob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend but is plagued by guilt and self-disgust.Sam Fuller’s first film. My father took me to see that when I was about six or seven years old. That ending. And those close-ups are amazing. I remember those close-ups very strongly. But the thing is, I knew it wasn’t your traditional western—a High Noon kind of thing. Something else was going on there. It was more intense. But I think the big one for me was Shane.
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsAlan LaddJean ArthurVan HeflinA weary gunfighter in 1880s Wyoming begins to envision a quieter life after befriending a homestead family with a young son who idolizes him, but a smoldering range war forces him to act.there was something about the way the director [George Stevens] used the medium. For example, the fight scenes, the way the action erupts. And the way Shane goes for his gun—the use of sound effects and editing. And it cuts to Brandon De Wilde and his eyes open. And, of course, the fight in the bar. It’s beautifully constructed. You watch how it builds, and builds, and builds. Now, these days, I notice the music helps it to a certain extent. But, still, it’s got the traditional scene, which I did in Gangs of New York—you know, the intimidation at the bar.
- DirectorElia KazanStarsMarlon BrandoKarl MaldenLee J. CobbAn ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.When Brando came on the screen in On the Waterfront, my whole idea of acting changed.
until Brando, cinema was the rhythm and the timing of the performers, like Judy Holliday and Broderick Crawford and William Holden in Born Yesterday: George Cukor directed that, and these films were plays, but yet they don’t feel like plays. You know, they don’t feel stagebound. - DirectorDavid LeanStarsRalph RichardsonAnn ToddNigel PatrickFictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.I learned alot of sound editing from it. About the plane, and the way it was landing, the way the director cuts to the plane. They hear nothing, nothing, and then suddenly the buzzing gets louder and louder, and comes right at the camera. I used that a lot in The Aviator.
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsAnton WalbrookMarius GoringMoira ShearerA young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.There was something about watching The Red Shoes that was all-encompassing, the excessive performances—Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer—the makeup on their faces, it was extraordinary, the beauty of the production design. Then this very strange ballet sequence, which visually had more to do with silent cinema than anything else.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenAlida ValliPulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.The Third Man and Citizen Kane were the ones that actually made me try to direct—coupled with John Cassavetes doing Shadows, which has an improvisatory style. His people seemed like people I kind of knew. It had a freedom to it.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinDmitriy VasilevStarsNikolay CherkasovNikolai OkhlopkovAndrei AbrikosovThe story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.But what I caught in Nevsky [about a Russian prince defeating an invading army in a famous battle on the ice; Sergei Eisenstein, 1938] was the editing. The battle scenes were amazing in terms of energy and visualization. And very often it was a mixture of silent cinema and sound cinema with a very, very crude-sounding sound track—Prokofiev on the track, very, very crudely recorded, so that the instruments sounded as if they were recorded in the twelfth century.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneJeffrey HunterVera MilesAn American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.But The Searchers was the key one, because of the nature of John Wayne in that. And the look of it. I saw it in VistaVision. What happened was that I realized there was one way of making a picture, which was the classical cinema.
It was an infuriating movie for me. Because it has greatness, and it has banality. - DirectorHoward HawksStarsJack HawkinsJoan CollinsDewey MartinA captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.I just loved it. I went to it from theater to theater. It was my favorite film as a kid. And then On the Waterfront wiped all that away. It didn’t wipe away the love for it, but I didn’t have to go see it again. But there was something about the ancient world and the way they shot it in modern Egypt that was interesting to me, using wide screen. And the sound, the music, was interesting, with Yma Sumac on the track, and it made me think of other cultures. Maybe it was all ersatz, but still I liked it a lot.
- DirectorRobert RossenStarsJohn GarfieldLilli PalmerHazel BrooksA talented boxer's young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him.to understand Raging Bull
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsAlberto SordiFranco FabriziFranco InterlenghiA character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.mean street's homosocio
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsCarmela SazioGar MooreWilliam TubbsAmerican military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.