I love All Quiet, but I wouldn't consider it an epic either.

1. Spartacus
2. The Bridge on the River Kwai
3. The Birth of a Nation
4. Barry Lyndon
5. Gone With The Wind
6. Apocalypse Now
7. Ryan's Daughter
8. The Thin Red Line
9. Intolerance
10. Lord of the Rings

1. The Godfather
2. Scarface (1932)
3. Once Upon a Time in America
4. Bonnie and Clyde
5. Mean Streets
6. The Beast of the City
7. The Godfather Pt. 2
8. The Public Enemy
9. City Streets
10. Goodfellas

I haven't seen National Velvet, and I didn't like The Hustler, but otherwise the list is pretty solid.

I would have found room for Eight Men Out, The Bad News Bears, and Bang The Drum Slowly.

I doubt I could name 10 off the top of my head, but for me 12 Angry Men is head and shoulders about everything else.

1. The Crowd
2. Sunrise
3. The Big Parade
4. Les Vampires
5. Metropolis
6. The Passion of Joan of Arc
7. Queen Kelly
8. People on Sundays
9. The Birth of a Nation
10. Man With a Movie Camera
11. Paris qui dort
12. Sadie Thompson
13. Regeneration
14. Napoleon
15. The Wind

1. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
2. Rio Bravo
3. Unforgiven (Eastwood)
4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
5. Shane
6. Lone Star (Sayles)
7. The Searchers
8. Red River
9. Ride The High Country
10. My Darling Clementine

1. Holiday 2. Design For Living 3. Annie Hall 4. It Happened One Night 5. Manhattan 6. The Philadelphia Story 7. Roman Holiday 8. Adam's Rib 9. The Shop Around The Corner 10. City Lights It's kind of tricky to define "romantic comedy", because a lot of screwball stuff I really enjoy like B...

I have no idea about the truth of the story, but having read comments from his contemporaries it would appear that it wasn't much of a secret that Laughton was gay. I get the impression it was less of an issue because he was by no means a sex symbol, and also he wasn't American. He was married to an...

I watched a bunch of pre-code stuff the last couple of days so here goes: The best of the bunch was 1934's Wonder Bar . I adore Busby Berkeley so I figured this one would be good, and it exceeded my expectations. Fast-paced, risque, delirious fun with Al Jolson as a night club owner/entertainer tryi...

I just rewatched The Big Parade last night(this time in English), and Gilbert is quite good in it. His scenes with Renee Adoree are really quite moving. My only complaint would be his hamming it up during the trench scene, I pretty sure if you did that in a real trench you would have been shot insta...

I agree with everyone about The Passion of Joan of Arc. Great film.

Well you name the names, so here's to you bringing some insight.

Welcome aboard.

So what constitutes Film Noir for you? I was just thinking about how Hitchcock's films never get classified as Film Noir(despite some very noirish elements), and that got me to thinking about what Film-Noir really means? Is it a style, or is it a time-frame, or a mindset or is it something else? For...

I've been on a Barbara Stanwyck kick lately, and I dig Anthony Mann's work, so I should really check this out.

Ok, cool. I've read her autobiography, but I don't remember that statement. Anyway I guess my point is that it's unfair to judge a performer for the roles they performed, particularly when they were early in their careers. So it's great that Myrna acknowledged the racism of some her early parts, it'...