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Airplane!
Auntie Mame
Babe
Baby Boom
Beautiful Girls*
Beetlejuice
Being John Malkovich
Born Yesterday
City Slickers
Clueless
Dr. Strangelove (bw)
Driving Miss Daisy
Duck Soup (bw)
Ghostbusters
Going in Style
Good Bye, Lenin!* (Germany)
A Great Wall
Hannah and Her Sisters*
Heathers
Kind Hearts and Coronets (bw)
M*A*S*H
Midnight Run
Mister Roberts
Parenthood
The Producers (

Double Indemnity (1944) was Billy Wilder's first serious film, and is given credit for the birth of film noir, literally "night film", which describes a visual style and mood of a type of dramatic film, usually crime, that's much more gritty and realistic than most films prior to this era.

Film noir was mostly shot at night or in dark interiors; there's lots of use of shadows, dimly lit edges,

A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan, 1957, bw) 5* (top rating)
This is an overlooked masterpiece, simply jaw-dropping. It's about the misuse of television to influence the masses, to buy cheesy products, to vote for cheesy politicians, even to think the way of the charismatic "everyman" star, terrifically played by Andy Griffith in a rare dramatic performance. Patricia Neal turns in perhaps her best

We will list and review the greatest films in history, wherever and whenever they were produced. We will also pan those often considered classics by those with either limited exposure or undeveloped powers of artistic discrimination.

Great films: The Best Years of Our Lives, Lawrence of Arabia, City of God, Memento, The Seven Samurai, Hero (Jet Li's), Babe, Finding Neverland, Parenthood, Hannah