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MOVIE MAKERS

Robert Altman
THE PLAYER
Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Whoopi Goldberg
Corrosive Hollywood satire with something like a zillion star cameos

Russell Rouse
THE OSCAR
Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Eleanor Parker
Unabashed camp fest

George Cukor
A STAR IS BORN
Judy Garland, James Mason

Vincente Minnelli
THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL
Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas

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#COMEDY

Blake Edwards' morality tale and sleeper hit
10
Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, Bo Derek - who walks away with the movie

Gregory La Cava
MY MAN GODFREY
William Powell, Carole Lombard
Nods for director, script, 4 acting categories - but no Best Picture

Woody Allen
ANNIE HALL
WA, Diane Keaton
1 of the '70s very best (but Keaton + interesting in Mr Goodbar)

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#BASEBALL

2 starring Kevin Costner
the sentimental fantasy-drama FIELD OF DREAMS
&
BULL DURHAM, which ended up as a Susan Sarandon showcase

2 sentimental dramas d: Sam Wood
THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES
Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright
&
THE STRATTON STORY
James Stewart, June Allyson

Third title re: health issues
BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY
Michael Moriarty, Robert De Niro

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SET IN THE SOUTH

Robert Mulligan
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Gregory Peck, Mary Badham
Classic among classics

Elia Kazan
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Phenomenal Oscar winner Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando
Great classic among great classics

William Wyler
JEZEBEL
Bette Davis won Oscar no. 2, Henry Fonda, Best Supp Actress winner Fay Bainter
Solid romantic melodrama

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MEDICAL ISSUES

Stanley Kramer
NOT AS A STRANGER
Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, Gloria Grahame
Underrated drama w excellent OdH/GG perfs

Edmund Goulding
DARK VICTORY
Nom Bette Davis, George Brent
The tearjerker to end all tearjerkers

Rudolph Maté
NO SAD SONGS FOR ME
Margaret Sullavan swan song, Wendell Corey, Viveca Lindfors, Natalie Wood
Not often on TCM

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ROBERT DUVALL TRIBUTE

Francis Ford Coppola
APOCALYPSE NOW
Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Frederic Forrest, Harrison Ford
Some find it 1 of the greatest #films ever made

THE GREAT SANTINI
Michael O'Keefe, Blythe Danner
Problematic problem family drama

Bruce Beresford
TENDER MERCIES
Tess harper
Generally well-regarded drama, Oscar-winning performance

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ICYMI: #RADIO & #TV

Hal Ashby
BEING THERE
Fantastic Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine & winner Melvyn Douglas

George Cukor
scr Garson Kanin
IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU
Billboard star Judy Holliday should have been shortlisted

Alfred E. Green
MR. DODD TAKES THE AIR
Largely forgotten but features a sensational Alice Brady

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SILENT FILMS

FW Murnau
SUNRISE
Janet Gaynor, George O'Brien, Margaret Livingston
Considered by some 1 of greatest #films ever

Michel Hazanavicius
THE ARTIST
Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, Uggie
Instant classic

King Vidor
THE CROWD
James Murray, Eleanor Boardman
1 of finest silents

Lewis Milestone
THE RACKET
Thomas Meigham, Marie Prevost
Remarkable cop drama

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ICYMI: NEW YORK CITY

Woody Allen
HANNAH AND HER SISTERS
Allen, Mia Farrow, AA winners Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine, scene-stealer Maureen O'Sullivan (Farrow's real-life mother)

W.S. Van Dyke
MANHATTAN MELODRAMA
which indirectly led to the death of gangster John Dillinger, supp a Myrna Loy fan

Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen
classic musical ON THE TOWN

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ICYMI: #ADVENTURE

Recommend titles incl

James Hill
scr: Hollywood Ten member Lester Cole, still using a pseudonym in 1966
BORN FREE
Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Mara

Best Picture nom
KING SOLOMON'S MINES
Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger

Michael Curtiz, William Keighley's rousing
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland

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