Throughout November, SOS staffers will be discussing the movies that made them into film fanatics. (click here for the full list) Raiders of the Lost Ark Directed by Steven Spielberg Written by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman imdb, USA, 1981 I grew up in a house …
Throughout November, SOS staffers will be discussing the movies that made them into film fanatics. (click here for the full list) The English Patient Anthony Minghella Michael Ondaatje and Anthony Minghella USA / UK The one which did me in was a half-comprehended French-dubbed version of The English Patient I watched with my father (who …
Throughout November, SOS staffers will be discussing the movies that made them into film fanatics. (click here for the full list) Thin Red Line Directed by Terrence Malick Written by Terrence Malick 1998 – USA It is nearly impossible to quantify within one’s own history what key moment or memory contributed to the formative restructuring …
Throughout November, SOS staffers will be discussing the movies that made them into film fanatics. (click here for the full list) There was no a-ha! moment, no seeing of the light, no epiphany. I’d loved movies since I was a kid, had been a buff since my early teens, but there was no one, shining …
Throughout November, SOS staffers will be discussing the movies that made them into film fanatics. (click here for the full list) There is really only one place to begin – The Dawn of Man. A montage of prehistoric images denotes the timeless passage of the years and decades, aeons before such concepts existed in the …
Throughout November, SOS staffers will be discussing the movies that made them into film fanatics. (click here for the full list) Growing up, movie nights consisted of whatever was on the “New Release” shelf at the movie rental store. Summer hits, multiplex blockbusters, pretty much if it was reviewed in People Magazine it was featured …
Throughout November, SOS staffers will be discussing the movies that made them into film fanatics. (click here for the full list) Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel begins with a shot of the exterior of a church. Organ music plays as the credits roll. Three shots follow: a shot of a sign indicating “Providence Street,” a …
Throughout November, SOS staffers will be discussing the movies that made them into film fanatics. (click here for the full list) Sunset Blvd. Directed by Billy Wilder Written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder 1950 – USA You must remember this. For me the love affair with movies began with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall …
Throughout November, SOS staffers will be discussing the movies that made them into film fanatics. (click here for the full list) As a child my film watching was heavily informed by a collection of MGM musicals, inappropriately adult Julie Andrews drag films, and Disney. As I entered grade school my passion for film was still …
Throughout November, SOS staffers will be discussing the movies that made them into film fanatics. (click here for the full list) Until I was about 14 years old, I was strictly a music nerd. I have distinct memories of arguing with another kid I went to school with around the time Radiohead’s Kid A came …
Throughout November, SOS staffers will be discussing the movies that made them into film fanatics. (click here for the full list) A Nightmare on Elm Street has a special place in my heart. It was not only the first horror film I had ever watched but it was the first film in which I …