Title Tws summary Trust Year ▲ Viewable | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Before It Takes a Thief there was To Catch a Thief, an exercise in high style, sumptuous settings and 1950s thrills, featuring the most glamorous couple in Silver Screen history. Cary Grant & Grace Kelly are über attractive as a rich heiress and a cat burglar … who was also a hero of the…
WikChip Image
The most glamorous couple, ever?
|
||||||
A severely dated farce would hardly be worth watching now if it didn’t star Marilyn Monroe at her most incandescent. Even better, The Seven Year Itch features Marilyn standing atop a windy subway grate in a rather famous white halter dress – widely considered one of the iconic images of the 20…
WikChip Image
Another dress that deserves fame
|
||||||
This movie is indeed the hallmark it is supposed to be. No matter that it was produced in the 50’s, the story works: kids in families with issues often end up with issues themselves. James Dean “Jimmy’s” weak father and naggy mother, Natalie Wood “Judy’s” shame spreading parents, to Sal Mineo "P… |
||||||
|
||||||
Marilyn Monroe rescues Bus Stop, as she rescued so many of her movies, her luminescent sexuality juxtaposed against an American society inchoately besotted with her. True fans can’t avert their eyes. To be clear, Bus Stop is a cheesy time-capsule, a Fifties classic capable of making "Alan…
WikChip Video
The Making of Bus Stop - Documentary
|
||||||
A boy and his pet balloon amble through vivacious Parisian streets in this perfect childhood confection. Just over half-an-hour long, Le Ballon Rouge won more awards than you can hold in two hands and deserves to be a preschool favorite for every girl and boy to this day. Just when you thin…
WikChip Image
Shh! They're brother & sister. Don't ...
|
||||||
Starched and stilted, Witness for the Prosecution nonetheless packs one hell of a punch at the end, with glorious detail throughout and a powerhouse cast who are the complete masters of their juicy roles. Nevermind that its theatrical roots show. Agatha Christie knew how to write for max view…
WikChip Image
Wilder angle: Dietrich looks up at Power
|
||||||
Audrey Hepburn is the spoon-full-of-sugar who makes the cultural imperialism go down in Funny Face. Stanley Donen’s musical – done Broadway style – is an intoxicating Vogue-tini, a Size 0 fashion fantasy. Richard Avedon famously created the opening titles, which are perfectly high fashion. …
WikChip Image
Avedon's timeless portrait of Hepburn
|
||||||
12 Angry Men has lost its punch, coming across today as more tortured and melodramatic than taut and credible. Still, it’s a classic, enduring as a case study of group dynamics more than as a compelling drama. The well-known story follows a jury into and through their deliberations on a murd…
WikChip Image
12 Great Actors
|
||||||
Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn weren’t hardly done being the greatest couple in Hollywood history when they made Desk Set in 1957. Ten years later, they’d star as parents whose daughter brings home the very black Sydney Poitier as her fiancé in Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner…
WikChip Video
The Greatest Demo of All Time
|