Best ten minutes - 2David Lean's The Passionate Friends (1949) has been almost entirely forgotten, but yet it’s among Claude Rains’ best performances. He was in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) too, playing the handler of the British spy/military advisor in Arabia there.... See More » (1)
Best ten minutes - 1 PINNEDThe first ten minutes of David Lean's movie Lawrence of Arabia (1962) begin with an approximately four-minute musical overture composed by Maurice Jarre over a black screen, followed by the iconic, fatal motorcycle crash of T.E. Lawrence. One can... See More » (1)
Movie to watch on Halloween - 6The Invisible Man (1933) is a science fiction horror movie from before Hollywood censorship was more rigorously enforced one year later. It got an English director with James Whale who's best remembered for three other horror movies : Frankenstein... See More » (1)
Movie to watch on Halloween - 5Shadow of a Doubt is a 1943 American psychological thriller film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock and penned in part by Alma Reville, Hitch's partner in crime and "right-hand woman". The movie itself is generally regarded as one of Hitch's five best... See More » (1)
Movie to watch on Halloween - 4Cat People (1942) is considered a great Halloween movie due to its masterful use of suggestion and suspense over explicit scares, its atmospheric and creepy tone, and its sophisticated exploration of themes like fear, desire, and most of all,... See More » (1)
Movie to watch on Halloween - 3The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American horror thriller film directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish. The screenplay by James Agee was based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Davis Grubb. The... See More » (1)
