Friday, May 27, 2011

Desert Island Classics


The Movie Buzzard would watch these films again any time.

"Intolerance" (1916/D.W.Griffith)
Humanity through the ages. Griffith's masterpiece.
"Duck Soup" (1933/Leo McCarey)
The Marx Brothers go to war.
"The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935/James Whale)
Gods and monsters.
"The Crimson Pirate" (1952/Robert Siodmak)
Lancaster channels the ghost of Fairbanks.
"Charade" (1963/Stanley Donen)
Cary Grant. Audrey Hepburn. Paris. A mystery. Romance.
"Dr. Strangelove" (1964/Stanley Kubrick)
"Mein Führer! I can walk!"
"The Wild Bunch" (1969/Sam Peckinpah)
Peckinpah's ode to death and laughter.
"High Plains Drifter" (1973/Clint Eastwood)
Clint paints the town red.
"The Usual Suspects" (1995/Bryan Singer)
Who's Keyser Soze?
"Good Night, and Good Luck" (2005/George Clooney)
Murrow, McCarthy and '50s TV.