Pictured Above:  1931 Academy Awards November 5th, 1930
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This Week's Top 10:
​Top 10 Heist Films

  1. The Asphalt Jungle ('50)-J. Huston
  2. Rififi ('55)-J. Dassin
  3. The Killing ('56)-S. Kubrick
  4. Le Cercle Rouge ('70)-JP Melville
  5. The Usual Suspects ('95)-B. Singer
  6. Reservoir Dogs ('92)-Q. Tarantino
  7. The Lavender Hill Mob ('51)-C. Critchton
  8. The Italian Job ('69)-P. Collinson
  9. Heat ('95)-M. Mann
  10. Ocean's 12 ('04) S. Soderbergh
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My Top 10 Favorite Films

  1. Sunrise ('27)
  2. L' Atalante ('34)
  3. Das Boot ('81)
  4. Design For Living ('33)
  5. Sullivan's Travels ('41)
  6. The Informer ('35)
  7. Miller's Crossing ('90)
  8. Goodfellas ('90)
  9. The Red Shoes ('48)
  10. Seven Samurai ('54)
About Me:
​I've loved movies for as long as I can remember.   For the past 20 years, I've worked for several of the major studios, including MGM, Warner Bros. & 20th Century Fox  in their Home Entertainment divisions.  The 1930's is my favorite decade for movies and I'm really partial to pre-code & Film Noir.
 Blogathons:   
I will be Blogging about Jean Vigo's masterpiece  L'Atalante ('34) for the Free For All Blogathon on 3/3.
I will be reviewing Mogambo ('53), starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner & Grace Kelly for The Clark Gable Blogathon on Feb 1st.
I will be reviewing Criss Cross (1949, Robert Siodmak) for the It Takes a Thief Blogothon on 11/17/17
I will be blogging about Wild Orchids for the Greta Garbo Blogathon on 11/22
I'll be blogging about Blood Simple in the 'Till Death Us Do Part Blogathon on 7/24
I'll be blogging about The Red Shoes in the En Pointe:  The Ballet Blogathon on 8/4 & 8/5.

Featured Actor/Actress

Top 10 Miriam Hopkins Films
Miriam Hopkins would never be called a shrinking violet.  She was bold, mischievous & strong headed, but every bit the Southern gentlewoman she was raised to be.  She was whip smart, friend to authors and politicians & was an avid art & book collector.  She was also a daring actor, who was at one point Margaret Mitchell's choice to play Scarlett O'Hara.  While she is most remembered for her multiple performances in a string of witty Ernst Lubitsch films in the 1930's, her career spanned 5 decades, but produced only 36 film roles.  Because she moved from studio to studio & worked with multiple producers there is no defining style that she is identified with, but that freedom allowed her focus on the roles that suited her.  She appeared in the first all Technicolor feature (Becky Sharp ('35 Mamoulian),  and was a regular on stage and later on television.  Her best work was definitely in the 1930's, but her later performance in The Heiress ('49 Wyler) won her praises as well.

Featured Director

Top 10 Preston Sturges Films
,Preston Sturges run  of 8 films in 4 years (1940-1944), while at Paramount Pictures, can arguably be considered the best output of any filmmaker in movie history.  The fact that they were all sidesplittingly funny comedies only adds to their genius.  From his $1 gamble with Paramount to sell his The Great McGinty ('40) screenplay with a promise he could direct, to Hail the Conquering Hero ('44) Sturges wrote & directed several of the greatest comedies of all time.  His knack for timing and overall simplicity in framing & movement made his films rely primarily on the words themselves.  Sullivan's Travels is my personal favorite, but arguments could be made for The Palm Beach Story or The Lady Eve as his greatest work.  Often overlooked, however, are several of his screenplays for hire that were directed for others,

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