Dustin Hoffman shows women how to be a real feminist in maybe my least favorite of the AFI’s “Top 100” American movies.
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SHERLOCK JR. (1924)
Buster Keaton climbs into a movie screen inside of the movie he’s already in. He gets the girl in both movies.
REPO MAN (1984)
Sort of a punk rock apocalypse. Or a comedy about some sort of alien invasion. Or a cautionary tale about the Neutron Bomb. Or…
AMERICA AMERICA (1963)
An extremely personal story of one young man’s journey from rural Turkey to America.
THE BLOOD OF JESUS (1941)
This is a movie as “outsider art,” an unfiltered detour into a religious mind without an insincere bone in its body.
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)
Perhaps the ultimate anti-War movie, its battle scenes represented a quantum leap for movies. Some of the smaller things may not hold up, but the message does.
TAXI DRIVER (1976)
Scorsese’s portrait of the classic lone wolf white male remains highly acclaimed, but I wonder if it hasn’t done more harm than good.
A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951)
A somewhat dated melodrama about people who are deeply unhappy despite being extremely pretty. One of them falls out of a rowboat.
POINT BREAK (1991)
This is a very silly but somehow a very good action movie about robbing banks, surfing, skydiving, and many other things. At one point Patrick Swayze throws a dog at Keanu Reeves.
E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)
A kid and his lovable alien pal try to escape from some government scientists. I found myself rooting for the scientists.
Movie Valhalla 