285. Guys and Dolls (1955)

Running Time: 149 minutesDirected By: Joseph L. MankiewiczWritten By: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, from play by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows and the story The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown by Damon RunyonMain Cast: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Stubby KayeClick here to view the trailerNote: As it pertains to the "COMING SOON" list I posted at the end of the "Ikiru" review, I'll be replacing Nicholas Roeg's "Don't Look Now" with David...

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246. Ikiru/To Live (1952)

Running Time: 143 minutesDirected By: Akira KurosawaWritten By: Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo OguniMain Cast: Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki, Bokuzen HidariClick here to view the trailerNote: Please take a few moments to check out the BlogRoll!, which has been on the sidebar of my blog for years now. I've recently updated it and really, there's a ton of good reading to be discovered just by clicking those...

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691. De stilte rond Christine M./A Question of Silence (1982)

Running Time: 92 minutesDirected By: Marleen GorrisWritten By: Marleen GorrisMain Cast: Edda Barends, Nelly Frijda, Henriette Tol, Cox Habbema, Eddie BrugmanMEN ARE SCUM?Thank you to the few who tracked me down in iCheckmovies - hopefully we can spy on what each other watched and have fun doing so. I took in "A Question of Silence" last night (which you would've known if you were following me on iCheckmovies.com), but needed an extra day to think...

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300. The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Running Time: 93 minutesDirected By: Charles LaughtonWritten By: James Agee, from novel by Davis GrubbMain Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane BruceClick here to view the trailerNotes: Thanks to the few of you who took the time to swing by icheckmovies.com and befriend me! I feel so loved! Anyway, for those of you who missed the posting, I AM over at iCheck, under the username adduvall84. There's a link of...

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511. WOODSTOCK (1970)

Running Time: 211 minutesDirected By: Michael WadleighMain Cast: Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Joe CockerClick here to view the trailerTHREE DAYS OF PEACE AND MUSICThis is another one where the running time becomes somewhat of an issue. THE BOOK clocks "Woodstock" in at 184 minutes. However, I watched the director's cut, which most sites clock in at 224 minutes. I added up the two discs of footage that I watched to total 211...

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331. Bab el hadid/Cairo Station (1958)

Running Time: 77 minutesDirected By: Youssef ChahineWritten By: Mohamed Abu Youssef, Abdel Hay AdibMain Cast: Farid Shawqi, Hind Rostom, Youssef Chahine, Hassan el Baroudi, Abdel Aziz KhalilNote: I wanted to remind everyone that I'm on icheckmovies.com and can be found under the username adduvall84. I'm reminded of this because my frequent commenter Ray has also recently joined and can be found under the username "few visible scars". We'd both like...

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399. The Cool World (1963)

Running Time: 101 minutesDirected By: Shirley ClarkeWritten By: Shirley Clarke, Carl Lee, Robert Rossen, from novel and play by Warren MillerMain Cast: Hampton Clanton, Carl Lee, Yolanda Rodriguez, Clarence Williams III, Gary Bolling"IT WASN'T HARD TO MAKE HARLEM LOOK LIKE HARLEM..."THE BOOK, as well as several other sites list this movie as being 125 minutes. The copy that I watched online last night, however, clocked in at 101 minutes and didn't...

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579. The Conversation (1974)

Running Time: 113 minutesDirected By: Francis Ford CoppolaWritten By: Francis Ford CoppolaMain Cast: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams, Frederic ForrestClick here to view the trailerA DOUBLE SHOT OF HACKMAN: 2 of 2You know, I was thinking, I really need to watch the other four Dirty Harry movies, the other two "Mad Max" movies and "The French Connection II" NOW, while I still have the originals in my head. It's not that I'm...

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534. The French Connection (1971)

Running Time: 104 minutesDirected By: William FriedkinWritten By: Ernest Tidyman, from novel by Robin MooreMain Cast: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel BozzuffiClick here to view the trailerNote: So here's how it's going to work for these final two hundred films. Basically what I've done is taken the films that remain and divided them in two. In each pile, I tried to put an equal number of mainstream and rarities, as...

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TOP 20: #702 - #801

It's hard to believe that when I watch one more movie, I'll only have a "hundred and some" movies left to watch. It seems like only yesterday when the tables were reversed and I'd only watched a hundred and had 800 to go. It really is a wonderful feeling to know that, barring my sudden demise, I WILL finish this journey and be able to flip through the book, throw my finger down on a random title and remember seeing that movie and be able to give...

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