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  • The Godfather Part II
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My Favorite Films As a Teen

33 films

In order from freshman year to senior year of high school, here are the movies I obsessed over as a…

  • Vertigo
  • The Heartbreak Kid
  • Belle de Jour
  • Melancholia
  • Rear Window

Ice Blondes

25 films

The prototypical Hitchcock blonde. An archetype fundamentally different than that of the blonde bombshell or dumb blonde. Haughty, refined, aloof,…

  • Safe
  • Red Desert
  • Melancholia
  • A Woman Under the Influence
  • The Wind

White Women Overwhelmed And/Or Terrified By World They Live In

33 films

Apparently I seem to love this genre

  • Days of Heaven
  • Paris, Texas
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  • Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

In The Bleak Mid-Winter

24 films

films to watch—or rewatch—on cold & dreary weekend afternoons

  • The Wizard of Oz
  • What's Up, Doc?
  • My Fair Lady
  • Fiddler on the Roof
  • The Music Man

My Favorite Movies As a Kid

34 films

The movies I couldn’t stop watching in elementary school

  • The Big Sleep
  • The Blue Dahlia
  • Dead Reckoning
  • Gilda
  • The Killers

Underworld U.S.A.

48 films

Crime Casinos  Tabloids Prostitution Psychosis Red Scare Hollywood Mafia Madison Avenue FBI CIA Atom bombs Atomization

1946-1964: Cold War America’s…

  • They Live by Night
  • Gun Crazy
  • Cruel Story of Youth
  • Pierrot le Fou
  • Bonnie and Clyde

Couples on the Run

12 films

“They're young, they're in love...and they kill people”

  • Bonnie and Clyde
  • Cool Hand Luke
  • Point Blank
  • Bullitt
  • Targets

Masculinity & Vietnam

43 films

Some films that explicitly or implicitly comment on Vietnam War’s influence in shaping of American masculinity

  • On the Town
  • Father of the Bride
  • A Place in the Sun
  • From Here to Eternity
  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Sex & the Suburbs (1947-1964)

45 films

Films from that era in the fifties and early sixties where sexuality had to be sublimated and unseeable, and yet…

  • On the Town
  • The Last Detail
  • Westworld
  • Total Recall
  • The Searchers

Double Feature

40 films

Pairs of movies I’d like to put together as a cinema double feature

(reasons for the pairings provided in the…

  • The Adventures of Robin Hood
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
  • Meet Me in St. Louis
  • Black Narcissus

Good Colors

71 films

Movies with some very good color schemes

  • Beau Travail
  • The Third Man
  • Nashville
  • The Lady from Shanghai
  • Chinatown

Favorite Film Endings

23 films

to be updated/a work in progress