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41. Black Orpheus (Orfeo Negro)
By Marilyn Ferdinand I always like it when awarding organizations get it right, and when the Big Three of the Western film world—AMPAS, the Golden Globes, and the Cannes Film Festival—named Marcel...
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40. The Man Who Laughs
by Sam Juliano Batman’s arch-nemesis the Joker was based on the lugubrious and sinister physiognomy of German actor Conrad Veidt, who played the titular character in Paul Leni’s 1928 silent...
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39. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
by Judy Geater I’m not sure how old I was when I first saw ‘Doctor Zhivago’ – maybe 11 or 12. But it immediately made a strong impression on me as the most romantic film imaginable, with its Russian...
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38. Senso
by Sam Juliano Italian director Luchino Visconti began his career in the theater, directing works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller in his home country, before moving on to film and opera. As...
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37. When Harry Met Sally
by J. D. Lafrance Can men and women be friends without sex getting in the way? This is the question that When Harry Met Sally… (1989) asks and then wisely leaves up to the viewer to decide. Released...
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The Giver, Frank, and The Hundred-Foot Journey on Monday Morning Diary...
Brenton Thwaites in screen capture from haunting THE GIVER, based on Lois Lowry’s 1993 Newbery Award winning masterpiece.Capture from Lenny Abramson’s audacious and melancholy FRANK. by Sam Juliano...
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36. Manhattan
by Shubhajit Lahiri Manhattan came possibly as a conclusion to the most remarkable purple patch in Woody Allen’s prolific and brilliant career as a filmmaker. The phenomenal streak began with Love and...
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35. Picnic (1955) – directed by Joshua Logan
Streetwise drifter Hal and small-town beauty queen Madge (William Holden and Kim Novak) bask in the delicious glow of sudden, explosive love at a Labor Day picnic. Because this film is based, however,...
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RICHARD LINKLATER’S BOYHOOD “I just thought there would be more…”
© 2014 by James Clark Boyhood (2014), seemingly in its trailer to be nothing so much as a Disney cash cow, is a uniquely forward-looking movie. Joining a roster of contemporary films on the case of...
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34. Chikamatsu Monogatari
by Stephen Mullen There’s no romance like a doomed romance, and no one does doomed romance like Kenji Mizoguchi. Couples form, usually ill-considered pairings, and they suffer – and suffer and suffer...
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33. The Apartment
by John Greco Office politics has changed a lot over the years but sex in the workplace, in one form or another, is alive and well. Billy Wilder’s superb comedy/drama is a time capsule look back at...
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32. It Happened One Night
By Brandie Ashe It’s a simple enough story: girl meets boy and decides to elope. Girl’s wealthy father takes her away from her new husband and attempts to annul the marriage. Girl escapes her father’s...
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Seashore Encore, ‘Books of Wonder’ event and Lucy on Monday Morning Diary...
by Sam Juliano Some of the most beautiful days of the entire year around the metropolitan area were enjoyed at a time when sweltering heat usually confines most indoors. Yet, breezy, low-humidity low...
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31. Before Sunset
by Jon Warner (This review contains spoilers) In Before Sunset, Linklater’s follow-up to his romantic masterpiece Before Sunrise (1995), we pick up Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) 10...
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30. In A Lonely Place
by John Grant US / 93 minutes / bw / Santana, Columbia Dir: Nicholas Ray Pr: Robert Lord Scr: Edmund H. North, Andrew Solt Story: In a Lonely Place (1947) by Dorothy B. Hughes Cine: Burnett Guffey...
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29. Lonesome (1928) – Directed by Paul Fejos
By Jon Warner Is there a romance that is as cute as this one? I’m not ashamed to admit it, but I think this film is immensely delightful. It’s unabashedly sentimental and romantic, yet the earnestness...
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28. 7th Heaven (1927) – Directed by Frank Borzage
My Darling Chico, You have been away from me for nearly 2 years now at war. I simply can’t believe you’ve been away that long. It’s also been so long since I’ve heard from you. I miss you so much....
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27. Wuthering Heights (1939)
by Sam Juliano Heathcliff, it’s me, your Cathy, I’ve come home I’m so cold, let me into your window Heathcliff, it’s me, your Cathy, I’ve come home I’m so cold, let me into your window...
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A Nagy Fuzet (The Notebook), Labor Day and Romantic Countdown on Monday...
Screen capture from A Nagy Fuzet (The Notebook) by Sam Juliano Labor Day. Summer’s End. The arrival of September. The time the year’s most prestigious movies are released. The opening of the opera...
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26. Trouble in Paradise (1932) directed by Ernst Lubitsch
By Duane Porter In the darkness, light filters through the glass panes of a closed door. A man steps up and takes hold of a garbage can that has been left outside the door. He carries it to the edge...
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