Feature: 100 Great Films
Lucas looks at the 100 greatest films of all time, according to critical consensus.
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Movie Review: Closely Watched Trains— Every frame is infused with a virginal eroticism that mirrors the preoccupation of the hero.
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Movie Review: Lawrence of Arabia— Content to present us with a Lawrence that is simply flawed for no discernible reason.
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Movie Review: Andrey Rublyov— Much of it boils down to the struggle to create something, to use that God-given talent to the best of your ability.
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DVD Review: A Hard Day's Night— I cannot imagine someone with any amount of appreciation for the Beatles or their music who would not thoroughly enjoy this film.
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Movie Review: Once Upon a Time in the West— It occasionally has the feel of a great director coasting along.
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Movie Review: Psycho— A top-notch thriller the likes of which most films can only dream of duplicating, even if they duplicate everything else.
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DVD Review: Persona— Everything seems likely, even the extremely unlikely, and by keeping us guessing, Bergman keeps us watching, time and time again.
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DVD Review: A Clockwork Orange— It aims to provoke a reaction in the belief that it is better to be found spectacularly bad than dull.
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DVD Review: Chinatown— Chinatown is a place where perception is not always reality.
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Movie Review: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb— Hands down, one of the greatest things ever put on film.
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Movie Review: A Streetcar Named Desire— In retrospect this is a great, ground-breaking performance, but I imagine that in 1951 it was nothing short of a revelation.
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DVD Review: The Lady Eve— Not realizing they're con artists is odd, but falling in love in two days?
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DVD Review: The Shop Around the Corner— You know that in the end the two leads will realize they are in love with each other, but you're having so much fun watching the proceedings that you really don't care.
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DVD Review: Ninotchka— The film is capitalist propaganda of the most effective kind, and makes no apologies for that fact.
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DVD Review: Chelovek s kino-apparatom— To say it is influential to visual artists everywhere is a gross understatement.
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DVD Review: On the Waterfront— Can it be possible to both love and hate the same film? Honestly, I don't yet know.
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DVD Review: Sherlock, Jr.— Do we care that the dream sequence is beyond the suspension of disbelief? Of course not.
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DVD Review: Camille— Even for a period drama, the film has not aged all that well, but the story is a timeless one that cuts through the drivel and strikes a resounding chord.
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DVD Review: Dodsworth— A drama about adults and geared toward adults that doesn't insult the intelligence of its audience.
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DVD Review: Swing Time— There are times it seems they're making love simply by tapping their feet. It's a beautiful thing to watch.
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DVD Review: It's A Gift— I assume the sum total of all these annoyances is supposed to equal comedy, but it turns out to just be annoying.
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DVD Review: Baby Face— They may have all the money, but she has all the power, and with power the rest comes naturally.
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Movie Review: King Kong (1933)— Obviously Kong is a model, but the effects are done with such a sense of artistry, we get the full effect of the real thing.
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DVD Review: City Lights— Somehow, I imagine Chaplin got a great amount of joy from filling the first few minutes of his first talkie with gibberish.
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DVD Review: Metropolis— This is the standard on which all science fiction should be judged, and serves as the template for many a sci-fi worldview.
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