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O'Connor's Film Lists |
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Top Movies for 2008 (so far) 1. The Visitor 3. Milk 4. Frost/Nixon 5. Tell No One 7. Young@Heart 9. Man on Wire 11. WALL-E 12. Doubt 13. Transsiberian 14. Iron Man 15. The Bank Job
Still to see: Gran Torino, Valkyrie, Wendy and Lucy, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Top Ten Movies for 2007 1. Juno 3. Once 4. The Lookout 7. Atonement 9. Hairspray
Tied for 11th: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Top Ten Movies of 2006 4. The Queen 7. United 93 9. Half Nelson 10. Who Killed the Electric Car?
Tied for 11th
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Recommended Movies with a U.S. Historical Theme |
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Theatrical Films, in historical order "The Last of the Mohicans," Michael Mann, 1992 "1776," Peter Hunt, 1972 "Amistad," Steven Spielberg, 1997 "Glory," Edward Zwick, 1989 "Darrow," John David Coles, 1991 "Heartland," Richard Pearce, 1979 "Reds," Warren Beatty, 1981 "Matewan," John Sayles, 1987 "Rosewood," John Singleton, 1997 "Inherit the Wind," Stanely Kramer, 1960 "Some Like It Hot," Billy Wilder, 1959 "Citizen Kane," Orson Welles, 1941 "The Grapes of Wrath," John Ford, 1940 "Something the Lord Made," Joseph Sargeant, 2004 "Casablanca," Michael Curtiz, 1942 "Schindler's List," Steven Spielberg, 1993 "Tora, Tora, Tora," Richard Fleischer & Kinji Fukasaku, 1970 "Saving Private Ryan," Steven Spielberg, 1998 "Zoot Suit," Luis Valdez, 1981 "The Best Years of Our Lives," William Wyler, 1946 "Good Night and Good Luck," George Clooney, 2005 "The Front," Herbert Ross, 1976 "Quiz Show," Robert Redford, 1994 "Thirteen Days," Roger Donaldson, 2000 "The Right Stuff," Philip Kauffman, 1983 "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," Stanley Kubrick, 1964 "Malcolm X," Spike Lee, 1992 "Platoon," Oliver Stone, 1986 "Apollo 13," Ron Howard, 1995 "All the President's Men," Alan J. Pakula, 1976
Documentaries, in historical order "Liberty! The American Revolution," Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, 1997 "The Civil War," Ken Burns, 1990 "The West," Stephen Ives, 1996 "New York, A Documentary Film," Ric Burns, 1999 "The Century: America's Time," Peter Bull, 1999 "The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century," Blaine Bagett and Carl Byker, 1996 "The Great Depression," Jon Else, Lynn Goldfarb, et. al., for Blackside Productions, 1993 "Riding the Rails," Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell, 1997 "Scottsboro: An American Tragedy," Daniel Anker and Barak Goodman, 2000 "The War," Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, 2007 "Unfinished Business: The Japanese American Internment Cases," Steven Okasaki, 1986 "A Great Day in Harlem," Jean Bach, 1994 "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara," Errol Morris, 2003 "Eyes on the Prize," Henry Hampton, 1987 "4 Little Girls," Spike Lee, 1997 "Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community," John Scagliotti and Greta Schiller, 1984 "Making Sense of the Sixties," David Hoffman, 1991 "Berkeley in the Sixties," Mark Kitchell, 1990 "Dear America, Letters Home from Vietnam," Bill Couturie, 1987 "Hearts and Minds," Peter Davis, 1974 "Woodstock," Michael Wadleigh, 1970 "Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle," Rick Tejada-Flores, Ray Telles "When We Were Kings," Leon Gast, 1996 "Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision," Freida Lee Mock, 1994 "The Panama Deception," Barbara Trent, 1992 |
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