In co-writer/director John Dahl's visually-stylistic neo-noir crime drama-thriller - the sleeper film (rated R mostly for graphic violence) was Dahl's debut feature film. He would go on to direct two ...

In director Dennis Hopper's contemporary, nihilistic erotic thriller and neo-noir - its themes were blackmail, adultery, murder and double-crossing twists and turns within a love-triangle amongst a ...

Greatest Opening Film Lines and Quotes: These are many of the best-known opening lines, fade-ins, and first words of dialogue heard throughout cinematic history - the initial opening words of films ...

The mid-to-late 70s and early 80s inaugurated a period of low-brow, teasy, R-rated sexy, US-made teen comedies (horror films not usually included) with gratuitous nudity, mindlessly weak plots, and ...

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) is the filmic retelling of Britishman T. E. Lawrence's heroic, autobiographical account of his own Arabian adventure, published in "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" (originally ...

The Wild Bunch (1969) is director/co-writer Sam Peckinpah's provocative, brilliant yet controversial Western, shocking for its graphic and elevated portrayal of violence and savagely-explicit carnage, ...

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The Sound of Music (1965) was an exceptionally successful film in the mid-1960s - at the time of its release, it surpassed Gone With the Wind (1939) as the number one box office hit of all time. It ...

It employed both revolutionary, never-before-seen techniques and traditional visual-special effects (including miniature models, matte paintings, rear projection, and stop motion). For example, both ...

The 400 Nominated Films (for the 10th Anniversary Edition) were feature-length fictional movies produced between 1912 and 1996 with newly-eligible films from 1996 to 2006.

When Broadway sensations May Irwin and John Rice's notorious lip lock was immortalized on film, people were shocked! This most popular short film - 26 seconds in length - (an Edison Vitascope film ...

Top 100 Spiritually-Significant Films: Arts & Faith, an online discussion group comprised of film critics and other movie buffs, announced its list of the Top 100 spiritually significant films ever ...