A classic movie is simply a movie that has stood the test of time, regardless of gender, regardless of age. A classic transcends all its classifications and manages to hold your attention all over again. In reverse order, here are my top 10 ...
10. Casablanca-1942
In one of the most popular film of all time: Humphrey Bogart plays Rick Blaine, owner of a nightclub American working in French Morocco. The history of high-stakes is set against the backdrop of World War II, and tells the story of Blaine, a disillusioned idealist, as he loves sacrifices to join the fight against the Nazis.
9. Citizen Kane-1941
Orson Welles first feature film, acclaimed for its soundtrack, photography and innovative narrative structure, is considered by many the greatest movie ever made. It retraces the life of a newspaper magnate from his humble beginnings and follows his ruthless climb to power and again to its inevitable end sad and lonely.
8. The Godfather (1972)
Francis Ford Coppola has got the outstanding novel by Mario Puzo and turned it into one of the all-time classic films. Marlon Brando in his surprising return of Hollywood Don Vito Corleone, the head of a crime family in New York and shares the screen with a handful of actors whose careers were launched on the strength of this film and their performance. The film tells the story of hopes and dreams of a family of immigrants in America and how children, struggled to fill the shoes of their fathers. Beautifully filmed scenes are contrasted with the violence.
7. Psycho-1960
In this classic suspense/thriller film by Alfred Hitchcock, Marion Crane is fleeing with stolen money and makes the mistake of checking in Bates Motel-managed by MOM's boyfriend Norman Bates and his mother. Violin score by Bernard Herrmann and chilling scene shower now are synonymous with horror.
6. Raging Bull (1980)
Based on the career of boxing champion Jake La Motta (1940), raging bull scored the highest point of Director Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro are working together. A study on the nature of the violence itself has produced one of the most poetic and brutal movie ever made. Performance de Niro are a triumph for acting as he travels by a young man fighting machine for a has-been Boxer overweight.
5. graduate-1967
In this biting comedy coming-of-age set in the late 1960s, Dustin Hoffman plays a college graduate Benjamin Braddock asking what to do next with his life. Seduced by an old family friend, Mrs. Robinson, Ben continues with the story even while falling for her daughter. The soundtrack of Simon and Garfunkel seals this classic movie.
4. Chinatown-1974
Roman Polanski's Chinatown explores the darker side of Los Angeles in 1930. Jack Nicholson plays a private detective Jake Gittes, investigating what appears to be a routine case of infidelity. Everything that is, not what it seams like Jake is drawn into a world of rights to land and water deals, greed and murder.
3.2001: a space Odyssey 1968
Without a doubt the greatest science fiction movie ever made, Stanley Kubrick's epic visionary begins on the plains of Africa and brings us up to the planet Saturn. Filmed in 70 mm, the film took four years to make. Attention to detail is amazing and the result is a film that doesn't look dated even after forty years.
2. Apocalypse Now-1979
Martin Sheen is a battle-weary Captain venture into the depths of the Vietnamese jungle to assassinate renegade Colonel Kurtz, who went into a State of insanity and started his own tribe. The film is almost surreal in its depiction of scenes of incredible battle and, of course, the famous helicopter raid set to the tune of "Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner".
1. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Depressed, set in 1930, this movie set a milestone for the violence of the screen as follows the infamous Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow from their first meeting, through shoot-outs and hold-ups, to become the most feared and ruthless robbers of America.
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