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10 Best Movie Posters of 2009

Gr8List — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:42:45 +0000

Moviefone.com compiled a list of the ten best movie posters of 2009. View the full article…

1. ‘An Education’
2. ‘The Girlfriend Experience’
3. ‘Jennifer’s Body’
4. ‘Up’
5. ‘Broken Embraces’
6. ‘Inglourious Basterds’
7. ‘Up in the Air’
8. ‘Food Inc.’
9. ‘Precious: Based on a Novel by Sapphire’
10. ‘Julie & Julia’

Best Movie Picks From New York Times Film Critics

Gr8List — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 04:33:12 +0000

Each week, the movie critics of The New York Times recommend a selection of films for the Movies section of NYTimes.com. The recommendations are based solely on that critic’s personal opinion of the film. Find out the best movies currently playing at your local theater, or out on DVD…

The 25 Most Stylish Films of All Time

Gr8List — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:03:36 +0000

When it comes down to it, it’s the big screen where fashions are immortalized. Not the runway, not the street. From Shaft to North by Northwest, here are the movies that will never go out of fashion. View the slideshow on Men.Style.com…

Three Days of the Condor – 1975
A Clockwork Orange – 1971
Purple Noon – 1960
North by Northwest – 1959
Trainspotting – 1996
Get Carter – 1970
Diner – 1982
Breathless – 1959
Stranger Than Paradise – 1984
Shaft – 1971
Badlands – 1973
Quadrophenia – 1979
Rushmore – 1998
A Hard Day’s Night – 1964
Shampoo – 1975
8 1/2 – 1963
Bullitt – 1968
American Gigolo – 1980
Reservoir Dogs – 1992
How to Steal a Million – 1966
Blowup – 1966
In the Mood for Love – 2000
The Godfather Part II – 1974
The Harder They Come – 1973
Ocean’s 11 – 1960

The 50 Greatest Cartoons of All-Time

Gr8List — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:39:05 +0000

The 50 Greatest Cartoons was a 1994 book by animation historian Jerry Beck that compiled a list of the 50 greatest animated cartoons of all-time as voted upon by 1,000 animation industry professionals. Details can be found on Wikipedia…

CityRag found links to online videos for many of the cartoons. The top ten are listed below. See all 50 animated cartoons…

1. What’s Opera, Doc? (1957)
2. Duck Amuck (1953)
3. The Band Concert (1935)
4. Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953)
5. One Froggy Evening (1956)
6. Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
7. Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
8. Porky in Wackyland (1938)
9. Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951)
10. King Size Canary (1947)

Leonardo DiCaprio’s 10 Favorite Movies

Gr8List — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:36:08 +0000

From a special RED edition of London’s newspaper, The Independent. Read the full article…

1.) Bicycle Thieves – 1948
2.) Taxi Driver – 1976
3.) Lawrence of Arabia – 1962
4.) 8 1/2 – 1963
5.) The Third Man – 1949
6.) Yojimbo – 1961
7.) Manhattan – 1979
8.) Sunset Boulevard – 1950
9.) The Shining – 1980
10.) East of Eden – 1955

The Top 40 Music Moments in Film History

Gr8List — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:00:16 +0000

Bullz-Eye.com recently polled all of their movie and music writers to get their favorite uses of pop songs in movies. Criteria: The song couldn’t have been written specifically for the film or have made its debut on the film’s soundtrack. Countdown the top 40 pop songs used in movies, and view the video clips…

1. “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Queen — Wayne’s World
2. “In Your Eyes,” Peter Gabriel — Say Anything
3. “Twist and Shout,” The Beatles — Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
4. “Damn It Feels Good 2 Be A Gangsta,” The Geto Boys — Office Space
5. “Tiny Dancer,” Elton John — Almost Famous
6. “Stuck in the Middle with You,” Stealer’s Wheel — Reservoir Dogs
7. “Shout,” Otis Day & the Knights — Animal House
8. “Moving in Stereo,” The Cars — Fast Times at Ridgemont High
9. “The End,” The Doors — Apocalypse Now
10. “Try a Little Tenderness,” Otis Redding — Pretty in Pink

Entertainment Weekly’s 50 Best High School Movies

Gr8List — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:55:26 +0000

Entertainment Weekly magazine recently assembled their picks for the 50 best high school movies. The top 10 films are listed below. Check out EW.com for details about all 50…

1. The Breakfast Club (1985)
2. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
3. Dazed and Confused (1993)
4. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
5. Heathers (1989)
6. American Graffiti (1973)
7. Clueless (1995)
8. Boyz N the Hood (1991)
9. Election (1999)
10. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

The Ultimate NYC Celebrity Homes Map

Gr8List — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:20:23 +0000

NewYorkMag.com recently researched and compiled their first-ever Star Map. The addresses were culled from publicly available real-estate records, selected published reports, and widely used Internet directories as well as the occasional in-the-know friend or well-placed source. NY mag opted not to print specific addresses. But you can still see, generally to within a block, where Drew Barrymore and Fabrizio Moretti live, that Uma Thurman and Julia Roberts could easily buy their lottery tickets at the same corner deli, where Kim Cattrall shares an elevator with Neil Sedaka, and that Herman Melville and Joey Ramone were practically neighbors (albeit in different centuries)…

The 50 Greatest Movie Stars All Time

Gr8List — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 04:01:03 +0000

In Premiere magazine’s list, you’ll see 50 embodiments of that most indefinable term, star quality. You’ll see male sex symbols who are undeniably Adonis-like, and others who are not nearly as refined in the physical-feature department but could still make their targets melt. You’ll see a squeaky-clean singer with a sultry side and a toddler with all the confidence of ten seasoned vaudevillians. The thing about star quality is that it’s mercurial. As the saying goes, you know it when you s ee it…

The Top 50 Movie Endings of All Time

Gr8List — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:45:48 +0000

FilmC riti c.com has posted a roundup of the top 50 movie endings of all time. Check out the full list…

1. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
2. Fight Club (1999)
3. Chinatown (1974)
4. Casablanca (1942)
5. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
6. Boogie Nights (1997)
7. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
8. Big Night (1996)
9. Don’t Look Now (1973)
10. Some Like It Hot (1959)

The Top 30 Game Show Hosts of All Time

Gr8List — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:57:19 +0000

Bert Convy is #30 (Tattletales, Super Password, Win Lose or Draw) according to RetroCrush.com. View the entire list, plus a video clip from each host in action…

Top 25 Rejected Movie Roles

Gr8List — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:43:28 +0000

Charlton Heston in Jaws? Sylvester Stallone in Star Wars? NotStarring.com keeps track of roles actors turned down, auditioned for, got fired from, or simply didn’t get. These are the top 25 most popular entries according NotStarring.com visitors…

All Time Movie Box Office Records

Gr8List — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:58:45 +0000

BoxOfficeMojo.com maintains comprehensive lists of all time box office records of movie grosses for weekends, days, holidays, openings, as well as other financial benchmarks.

Wikipedia’s List of the Greatest Movies Ever

Gr8List — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 14:50:23 +0000

The important criterion for inclusion in this article is that the film is the “greatest” by some specific criterion or indicator — be it a critics’ poll, popular poll, box office receipts or awards.

Memorable Movie Quotes

Gr8List — Fri, 19 May 2006 03:15:04 +0000

The Internet Movie Database offers their top 10 movie quote pages. You can also browse the IMDb’s large database of movie quotes, from recent films to the classics.

Pedro: Do you think people will vote for me?
Napoleon Dynamite: Heck yes! I’d vote for you.
Pedro: Like what are my skills?
Napoleon Dynamite: Well, you have a sweet bike. And you’re really good at hooking up with chicks. Plus you’re like the only guy at school who has a mustache.