1000 Great Films

Photo: John Cassavetes' Husbands This is a poll of polls, taking many lists into account, around 1800, and putting all that on a comput...

This blog was an interface test for 1000 DVDs to See . We've decided to go with the ProBlogger template and converted that blog. We...

Sofia Coppola, 1999 (7*) I watched this film without knowing anything in advance, and was pleasantly surprised to find it was Sofia Coppola...

By the Coward Robert Ford Andrew Dominik, 2007 (8*) This is an account of the last days of Jesse James, from a novel by Ron Hansen . A bit s...

Charles Laughton, 1955, bw (9*) This is one of the creepiest, most spine-tingling films ever made, and the best from actor Robert Mitchum . ...

Stephen Daldry, 2008 (9*) This is Kate Winslett's finest performance in a stellar career, and was rewarded with her first Oscar® for ...

Darren Aronofsky, 2008 (8*) Golden Lion, Venice This gritty film from Darren Aronofsky deservedly won Mickey Rourke many awards for actor ...

aka Spider's Web Castle Akira Kurosawa, 1957, Japan, bw (8*) This is actually another of the great Japanese director's early masterw...

Aka Stay Bobcat Goldthwait, 2006 (7*) Sometimes we do something we immediately regret, like Melinda Page Hamilton in this film, while alon...

Peter Berg, 2007 (7*) This is a surprisingly good and timely action-adventure from actor-turned-director Peter Berg as it involves anti-US t...

Bryan Singer, 2008 (9*) Even if you know this story from high school history or reading William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Rei...

Darren Aronofsky, 2006 (8*) This is such a unique personal vision that it's really hard to describe, in a line: yet another mind-bending...

Paul Haggis, 2007 (8*) This surprising mystery is a terrific small film that got absolutely no PR at all. It quietly slipped past most peopl...

Shari Cookson and Nick Doob, 2009, HBO (10*) The Memory Loss Tapes is the first part of four films in the HBO series The Alzheimer’s Proje...

aka Nema-ye Nazdik Abbas Kiarostami, 1990, Iran (7*) This is a small, sub low-budget pseudo-documentary that has much of the story re-enact...

Martin McDonagh, 2008 (9*) This is a thoroughly enjoyable and creative black crime 'dramedy' (more drama than humor), about two aff...

Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953, Japan, bw (9*) This is one of the greatest Japanese cinema classics, in spite of some exaggerated acting. Moody, atmo...

James Marsh, 2008 (7*) Best Documentary (AA) [Note: it's hard to be a spoiler here, it's on the dvd cover and the film description...